Lilac Sunstar

Lilac Sunstar

 * Screen_Shot_2014-01-12_at_8.36.29_PM.pnge Half-Elf Cleric (Warpriest)
 * Good
 * 5' 7"
 * 135 lbs.
 * 19 years old

Origin
Lilac is the child of a romantic liaison between Serendra Fain and Alendor the Air Rider. Lilac has no knowledge of her origin, as she was given up at a young age to her adoptive parents, Halovel Lightstower and Brenna Merendil, and grew up with them in Morannon, a small city on the northern edge of Dungannon. Halovel and Brenna are both elves who were members of the Elven Crusade led by Serendor Meritas. While her parents were aware of her deitic heritage, they were sworn to secrecy and never told Lilac or anyone close to her of her parentage. Lilac herself does not even realize that she is adopted.

When Lilac was 4 (15 years before Keep on the Shadowfell begins), her adoptive father Halovel was killed in combat serving Coronal Ilsivier Meritas. Her mother, in rushing to the field of battle upon feeling her connection with her husband severed, suffered immediate and permanent psychic damage due to a spell cast by a blackguard of Bane. She now cannot speak and has only vague memories of Lilac's true parentage or anything beyond strong emotions of bitterness toward Lilac. These emotions, when confronted by the presence of Lilac overwhelm her to the point of madness. Extended time in Lilac's presence causes a breakdown of Brenna's faculties.

When Brenna succumbed to this psychic damage, Ilsivier Meritas beseeched a traveling eladrin ranger, Nevarra Valenis, to care for and protect Lilac out of love for her parents and their service to Morannon and in particular her father, Serendor. Nevarra was willing to take on Lilac as a remnant of the eladrin's continuing loyalty and protection of all elves after their hardship and the continued wilting of the Shining Forest. While Nevarra does not know Lilac's true origins, she does sense something special about the child and is fiercely protective of her. Further, while Nevarra knows that the muted Brenna is indeed the mother of Lilac (although she does not realize Lilac is adopted), Nevarra has been sworn to secrecy by Ilsivier, so as to spare Brenna further emotional distress and trauma.