Legends of Belariath

Sharatar

Sharatar's Background

Wake up, my little one. Awaken, and explore this new world for me. I am Samaelryn, and you are my dream. Said a prominent, deep voice in her mind. You I will call Sharatar. Wake up, and explore the corporeal world for me. It has been long since I left this place. You are to go among the other races, learn what you can of them, and at times I will call you back to myself that you can teach me what you have learned. Awareness came to her slowly at first, building with intensity just as her form began to coalesce into existance before the jade-scaled Dragon known, or more likely forgotten, as Samaelryn.

Sharatar would stay with her Elder, the two of them alone in the realm he called home, an alternate plane of existance from the material realm the other races inhabited, and that he was preparing her to live in as well. He taught her the language of her people and the tongue of the Sylvan Elves, taught her to read and write in both languages. He gifted, or cursed, her with being able to feel the emotions of a mortal. He gifted her too with the unsatiable curiosity that would later drive her to explore, to learn and to study new things that she might return and teach him of them.

He taught her the history of the first Drak Sen, and why he had chosen to withdraw from the corporeal world completely. Now he was curious as to what life was like there without the lesser races having the guidance of the Dragons as they had had when the Dragons had created them. Samaelryn had left the corporeal world shortly after the creation of Human kind in protest of the crude work his kith had wrought in making humans.

After explaining to her that he could no longer stand to go among even his own kind himself, disgusted as he was with what they had allowed themselves to degenerate to, he explained to her of his wish that other Dragons might one day reclaim their former glory and cease bickering and fighting amongst each other and the younger races. He wanted to bring back the peace that they had promised to their creations, but could not do so alone.

When he finally felt she was ready, he sent her out into the material realm.

Upon her arrival in corporeal flesh, seeming to have been created out of the very air she now breathed, she was disoriented and confused. Clothed only in a simple rob she found next to her when she truly woke for the first time, she set out to begin learning, uncertain if she would ever see Samaelryn again. Unknown to her, she was being watched.

Samaelryn had sent her, wether intentionally or not, into the corporeal realm at exactly the time a slaver's caravan was passing through the forest she awoke in, and the caravan's vanguard discovered her long before she was fully able to comprehend her situation. Captured and enslaved immediately after she had come to the material world, she was put up for sale immediately.

The first Sylvan encampment that the caravan encountered seemed to have been waiting for them, most of the community had come to see what was for sale. An elderly Sylvan woman that the mercury Drak Sen would later find out was a servant of her Elder bought her from the slavers and taught her the basics of survival in the material world, and other lessons that her Elder had not been able to prepare her for.

For nearly twenty years she served her Mistress Ushani, the community's Heirophant Druid, quickly taking to her role as Ushani's slave and learning quickly and well any lesson put before her.

When Ushani went out into the Grove and did not return, she was passed to another member of the community, until a time came when they needed money badly to aquire the supplies that could not be grown within their own lands or produced by another natural means. A human named Kadoc was traveling through the forest then, a vagrant, but known to the Elves not to be interested in females.

Kadoc was a gambler, and a poor one at that. He lived most of his life on the run, stealing what he could just to feed himself and bet in the next game of dice he could find. He quickly found that his new pet was a quick learner, smart, and resourceful. He taught her the art of the theif, the guile, and the con artist, and let her loose to aquire the funds he needed to feed himself, barely leaving enough for her to survive off of, and the rest went to gambling.

When she had become a more competent thief than her master, he settled down in one of the major human cities, letting her go out and ply the trade while he would spend every night in the inns and taverns spending the money she worked hard to 'aquire.' When her actions came to the attention of the local thieves' guild and they captured her, she was more than happy to change allegiances.

The Guild saw that she had enough food and kept her out of trouble, its members helping her to refine her skills even more. Soon she learned the art of the assassin as well, and when her Master died, she had set aside enough money within the Guild to buy her own freedom, much to the celebration of her fellow guildmembers for many evenings. She rose in the ranks of the Guild, but eventually her unsatiable curiosity, her need to explore, drove her to leave the city and all of her worldly possessions behind to keep the Guild from thinking she had betrayed them, in search of new horizons.

She traveled for many years, going from city to village, village to city, and never allowing herself to settle in one area for long. She used her skills as a thief sparingly, only stealing what she needed to survive, and even then only enough to scrape by so as not to attract attention. She met others of her kind for the first time some five years after leaving the Guild, but with the mannerisms of a former slave and her mercury scales, the two gold-scaled Drak Sen she encountered refused to pay her much mind, looking down on her as much as they would have a Sithian.

Determined to obtain the respect of her fellow Dreams, she began looking for others of her kind, trying to undo the mental conditioning of her years of servitude, slowly gaining confidence as a free woman. After many years of traveling, her skills as a thief had almost completely faded away from not being used when she came to Nanthalion and the Lonely Inn.

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