Leaf Staciatelu

Leaf Staciatelu is a world famous musician and performer from the Dragon Isles.

## History

### Early Life

Leaf was born to Lucian and Deloris in the small city of Ausnable located on the Rended Island.  Ausnable is located on the southeastern coast on the eastern most “island”.  Leaf’s first 50 years of life were typical of most high elves from the Rended Island.  Initially Leaf followed in his father’s footsteps and become a courtier for the city council.  After spending two long decades working with the city council, he decided that the profession was not for him and resigned from his job.  His father was not pleased at his resignation, and still feels that Leaf is throwing away his best opportunity to make a difference in the world.  Leaf admits that he learned a lot about how elven politics work, and has gained many influential contacts throughout the entire Rended Island from his experience.  However, during his time working with city council he grew tired of all the political posturing and manipulation.  For all the superficial beauty and eloquence of high elves, Leaf discovered too much self-serving ugliness that is underneath the council’s surface and it has caused him to turn away from the profession.  At an early age, Leaf learned to play several musical instruments and learned an appreciation of the arts.  He currently plays the lute, lyre, and flute.  At a young age he discovered a great love and talent for creating music, poetry, and dance.  Besides his parents, the biggest influence in his life was his mother’s older brother, Uncle Reimon.  Uncle Reimon is a retired bard adventurer who has traveled the world adventuring and composing beautiful songs and poetry.  The stories that his uncle has told him have romanticized the traveling bard for Leaf, and helped him decide it was the life for him.

The early years of Leaf’s adventuring career where filled with excitement and danger, and somehow his adventuring party always seemed to come out on top.  Ten years ago, Leaf had his most significant and life changing adventure.  He was out touring the Rended Island to see the countryside and experience some adventure.  He got more than he bargained for when his party consisting of his girlfriend, Marehiah, who he had known since childhood and her twin brother Galindal, and his friend Thulca.  They learned of a great treasure of gold that was deep in the forest.  A wagon loaded with gold, jewels, and priceless art being delivered on a seldom used trail through the forest had failed to show up for its delivery.  If Leaf could gather his friends and find out what had happened maybe he could get a reward or possibly claim the treasure for himself.  When he set off with Marehiah, Galindal, and Thulca he was imagining all the great songs and poems he could write about their exploits.  Unfortunately, things turned out much worse.  The wagon and its guards chose to take a forest path that passed a point of convergence of the planes, where the feywild touched the material plane.  Leaf and his friends found the wagon smashed apart and all the travelers gone.  From what they could tell the wagon and guards where attacked by large giants and dragged off.  When they realized this they turned and tried to go back the way they came as fast as possible, but it was too late.  They were ambushed by four fomorians and Marehiah and Leaf barely escaped with their lives.  Thulca took a direct hit in the head by a fomorian’s club bashing it in, but Galindal might have survived and Leaf grabbed Marehiah and ran away.  This tragic event caused a rift to grow between them and Leaf has vowed to find Galindal and rescue him from his feywild captors.