Tavarlith Silverleaf

Tavarlith Silverleaf, or Tavarlith Mithlasse, is the eldest son of Astalder, and prince of the kingdom whose capital is situated within Evergrove. He is the Ranger General of all Elven forces in the kingdom. He is also a good friend of Aleksandr Zachary and is the reason for much of the connectivity and interaction between the Kingdom of Haven and the Elven Kingdom. However, due to other issues within the Elven lands, Tavarlith and his sister Alastriel took it upon themselves to lend the aid Aleksandr needed.

## Personal Backstory

Tavarlith was always an adventurous sort. He did not care for the political mess of diplomacy, favors, and the corruption that could fester in relationships mired in politics. He preferred action to discussion. He preferred to tackle problems head on. As a result, he tended to linger in the wilderness more than in royal meeting halls. He gained two friends doing this; a timber wolf named Tavandur, which meant Wood Friend, and a Blood Hawk named Agarwaen, which meant Bloodied. They accompanied him wherever he went, and it took great restraint to leave them out of official political matters when he could not avoid the meeting halls.

His meeting up with Alek put more heat to his efforts to engage in a more open political approach, meeting people in places other than meeting halls, in dealing with problems without the cloak and dagger of political favors and underhanded lies and secrecy. He cautioned his father in these regards, but the exact thing he feared forced his father to steer clear of any aid towards the humans of Haven. Unbeknownst to Astalder, the demonic influence that had tainted the Onyx Guard had also tainted various individuals in the divides of the Elven councils. Many people cautioned that sending support to the humans would merely weaken defenses in Elven lands.

As a result, Tavarlith gathered those that trusted him, including his sister, and ventured into the human lands to aid Alek's small rebellion against the Onyx Guard's control.

### How the Story Continues...

The story I've been writing is not complete. An ending has always eluded me, at least, in the sense of sitting down and writing it. However, roleplay from here involved a lot of re-writing to fit continuity, because of the same reasons discussed on Alek's page. The character was born into the world of Shadowbane, and his personal backstory was never really explored. I never had the chance to do anything of the sort then, and his roleplay centered around the story done around the interaction between our guild, The Guardians of Aerynth, and the enemy guild, The Undead Lords.

## Continuity

As is the case in the majority of my characters, I focus on a medieval setting. This character, again as is the case with many others, do not mesh well into a re-write for a more modern or even sci-fi setting.

#### Video Game Renditions

After Shadowbane, I also attempted to explore him as a character in other worlds. I could not bring him into the world of Tyria for Guild Wars, but I did eventually make him in World of Warcraft. Following the storyline of the High Elves, however, he did not wind up as one of the Blood Elves. Instead, he died in the Scourge's invasion of Quel'Thalas, and thus, his story continued in World of Warcraft as one of the Forsaken, an undead version of himself. Lamenting what he'd left behind, he like many other Forsaken, relinquished his true name and took on a new one as a Forsaken. He was now Demader Baneleaf, a rogue focused on poison, engineering to make explosives, and secrecy. Like him, his pets had died, and there was the ghost of a wolf following him, along with the reanimated body of a hawk.

This became the majority of my roleplay with him, and has been somewhat of an inspiration for how I approached him in the future, as a character in D&D.

#### New/Recent D&D

I have played him in two campaigns. He was not undead, but was an elf that was multi-classed as a Ranger and a Rogue, with his build being focused around a blend of Assassin Rogue and Hunter Ranger. I have made the effort to try and include some kind of explosive crafting with the character, but nothing really came of it. I have also thought of the idea of him being an Artificer in some degree, to facilitate the explosives part of it, but that was never put into actual play. This character also inspired another elf rogue character, that will be discussed later.

## Appearance

Name: Tavarlith Silverleaf

Height: 6'0"

Weight: 187 lbs

Age: 138

Known Aliases: None

Build: Typical Elven slenderness with a bit of animalistic tendencies due to time spent hunting with a wolf. Quite flexible and adaptable to terrain limitatinos.

Scars: None

Tattoos: None

Jewelry: None

## Family

See Silverleaf Family for a more thorough look.

Father: Astalder Silverleaf

Mother: Lirima Goldbough

Younger Sister: Alastriel Silverleaf

Wife: Arinai Starlight

Cousin: Valaya Silverleaf

Cousin: Ruscion Dawnsinger