A'postrofae Sinnafain Talandren

### Birth

Matriarch of House Talandren, A'postrofae was born in in the village of Thundertree in The Forest of Wyrms on the 5th of Kythorn in 1420DR to Essarae Ghilanna Talandren and Amos Corso while Essarae was married to Jao’nos Helen’orin. She had one sister, Seldanna Chin’nesstra Talandren. Both Essarae and Seldanna were killed in the attack on Thundertree by the Cult of the Dragon in the month of Tarsahk in 1489DR.

According to Essarae Talandren's journal(1), Amos Corso first appeared in Thundertree in approximately 1418DR and visited several times before offering a deal to Essarae to trade his knowledge for her willingness to continue his line. Essarae agreed to this deal without Jao'nos' knowledge and Amos became the biological father of A'postrofae through the use of polymorph magic. Years later Amos Corso returned to Thundertree, removed the magic from Esserae allowing her to see that he had mentally coerced her into having a child with him and told Jao'nos that he was the father of A'postrofae. This led to Joan'os' eventual suicide by the green dragon Fauno.

### Early Life

   Little is known of A'postrofae's early life beyond what she has made public and second hand stories published in several unauthorized biographies written by the descendants of the members of her adventuring party unofficially known as "The Broken Ones". She described her mother as cold and aloof leaving the bulk of raising A'postrofae to her daughter Seldanna. As Seldanna often traveled to other villages as a healer, A'postrofae was left in the care of her aunt Kylantha (Ky) Enquinal where she was given free reign to explore the forest around Thundertree. This also led to her friendship with her cousin Esseneth Enquinal.

Being unnaturally tall for an elf and socially awkward A'postrofae had no friends beyond her cousin and spent most of her time alone in the forest around Thundertree where she developed her love of the forest and nature in general. At an early age she pestered her mother and her aunt to allow her to begin training to be a druid but both refused saying that she needed to wait until she reached maturity. However, being a stubborn young girl, she learned what she could by observing others in their training.

### Attack and Destruction of Thundertree

In the month of Tarsakh in 1489DR the Cult of the Dragon, as part of their campaign to build a treasure horde for Tiamat, attacked and destroyed the village of Thundertree leaving A'postrofae as the only survivor of her village.

### A'postrofae "The Corrupted"

While escaping she says that she met a wizard who she called "The Necromancer" who placed a curse on her which affected her for a significant period of time. The curse caused her to take a dark turn, embracing necromancy and warping her not only her personality but her physical form. Those the spent time with her during that period described a palpable sense of dread whenever they were near her. As she increased her power that aura only worsened. The curse coupled with the severe stress of witnessing her entire family and village slaughtered caused her to have a mental break and she admits to being "less than sane" during these months. Rumors of murder, torture and other serious crimes abound during this period of her life although she was never officially accused of any crimes.

### A'postrofae "Cleric of Helm"

At the height of her dark power, with her rumored atrocities getting worse, a member of her adventuring party convinced her to seek help from the clerics of Helm in Waterdeep. According to temple documents a ceremony was performed to understand the nature of the curse where it was found to be a particular form of magic to make her a thrall of a high ranking Cult of the Dragon wizard and ultimately serve as a vessel for the spirit of a long dead black dragon. She was told that the curse could be removed but it would also strip her of her powers and there was no guarantee that she would be able to regain them. Details are unclear but during the ceremony things were not going well and Bismark, who at that time was a Cleric of Helm and had convinced A'postrofae to have the curse removed, asked Helm to intervene and offered to give up his powers as a cleric in exchange. As a result Bismark lost his powers and Helm granted his powers to A'postrofae for a brief time.

### Redemption and the Circle of the Wyrm

After losing her powers and becoming a cleric A'postrofae returned to the destroyed village of Thundertree with the intention of rebuilding it and remaining there. According to some members of her adventuring party she said that she had always felt a connection to the forest and, in spite of the boon granted by Helm, felt that what she called the spirit of the forest was the closest thing she considered to be her god. With the support of her friends they rebuilt the town and she convinced people in neighboring villages to send people who wanted to help her restart the village. During this time she found her mother's journal, learned of her birth and learned that both she and her sister had been groomed since birth to be vessels for the spirits of long dead dragons who had served Tiamat. She had always insisted that the spirit of the forest was an actual entity that the forest itself was alive and after much research she found the actual spirit of the forest on an island in the middle of a lake. She was asked to take on a task that would most likely kill her but if it did not she would be made the Warden of the Forest of Wyrms as her mother had been and she would have her powers restored.

After completing this task she returned to the spirit of the forest and, with her cleric powers fading, she became a druid once more. The sole druid of the Circle of the Wyrm giving her the power to call dragons to her service and change into a green dragon. With her powers returned the group returned to Waterdeep and eventually the Well of Dragons where they fought Tiamat to a standstill returning her to her prison in Hell.

### Return of the Queen

To be added

(1) A'postrofae has never released her mother's journal. What information that is known about it's contents are through second hand accounts.