Garaele Pastkeeper

**Garaele Pastkeeper** was born to a wealthy family of first-generation cannor-born moon elves. Taking their cannorian surname from their fleetborn ancestor, who worked as a ship historian on the Lunatein. Most known for her exhaustive works on religion and theology.

### Early Life

Her parents were heavily involved in a sect within the Magisterium whose purpose was to collect all knowledge, artifacts, and mysteries in the world, for safe-keeping, study, and categorisation. This sect would come to be known as The Order of Chroniclers.

Early in her life, she discovered her magical affinity and the teachings of The Dame, the goddess of Magic and knowledge. Her parents inducted her into the Temple of the Highest Moon where she studied and developed her skills as a cleric. She would combine her temple duties with her parent's adventures and fieldwork for the Order upon reaching adulthood. It didn't take long until she was inducted into the Order as a full member, in 1439.

### Life as Chronicler

She was one of the few active field chroniclers in Escann during the Greentide, hoping to study ancient Castanorian religious practices. As well as the newly appointed avatar Corin, and her growing following. She quickly discovered the faith and beliefs of the invading orcs and goblins, Great Dookan and Goblin Shamanism, to be equally important to study and document. Something she would later receive criticism for amongst her peers.

The newly opened Deepwoods also provided plenty of new opportunities for study, and she was known to hold long interviews with any wood elven expats she could find. She was also instrumental in the infamous 1444 discovery and reclamation of an ancient, believed lost, Castanorian mine in Forkwic, aided by a group of greentide adventurers.

#### Serpentspine Expedition

In 1450, she would journey for the Asra Expedition in search of her parents, who had joined to catalog and document the dwarven reclamation venture on behalf of the Order. During her time in the Serpentspine she was exposed to even more faiths. The fragments of the Dwarven Pantheon in long lost ruins, and Ancestor Worship still prevalent amongst some of the expeditionaries. The older variant of the orcish faith, Old Dookan, and the remnants of the Nimrithian Dragon Cult amongst the darkscale kobolds and ruins of Khugdhir. Sadly, her parents had already been killed in a black orc raid by the time she had picked up their trail. By the time she had finished her quest and studies of the Serpentspine faiths, a completely new continent had been discovered. The old homeland of the elves. Aelantir.

#### North Aelantir Colonization

As such, by 1506, she was given a new assignment. News of an expedition to Aelantir with the goal of establishing an overseas colony had reached the Order. What was special about this one, was the novel ideas and ideological motivations behind its backer and founder. One Varil siná Cymáine. The Order wanted someone to "document and chronicle this experiment's rise and inevitable fall" and Garaele volunteered.

Following the founding of Cestirmark, and the many expeditions and archeological excavations available, she quickly broadened her scope from just the fledgling colony to the ancient history of the precursor elves, the local Boek and Kwineh faiths. During her adventures, she would allegedly find herself with the group of explorers who discovered the Mural Temple. A rumor she refused to confirm nor deny for the rest of her life.

#### Silent Seclusion

By the 1530s, she traveled back to Anbenncóst to report her findings and to spend some time cataloging all of her work. As the Corinite Wars broke out between the Adeanic and Corinite factions, Garaele spent much of her time using her temple training, tending to the wounded and dying of both sides.

She spent the next two centuries in silent seclusion inside the Temple of the Highest Moon, where she continued to collect her works and findings. Studying the emergence and spread of the new Ravelian faith from afar. She exchanged many letters with her former colleague and friend Torrieth Godspeaker. She was claimed to even have been allowed to view the God Fragment herself, and study the way Torrieth interacted with it. A secret she would take to her grave when she passed away peacefully in her Anbonncóst home in 1802. Surrounded by books and parchment.

### Impact of Works

Her works helped form the basis of our understanding of cannorian religious development, and serve as a rare, credible first-hand account of major religious events spanning from the Greentide to the Age of Artifice. Her numerous minor works cataloging the orcish, goblin, ruinborn, and dwarven faiths alongside many other cults and sects she encountered are still used as reference material in modern times.