Abandonment

It is not unknown that true Elves despise the mixture between their ancient race and the race of Humans. What is not known is the depth in which an Elf is willing to go to in such matters. Kardoden does not know exactly where he comes from, he was abandoned in the woods near no known civilization. Fortunately for him, it happened to be the location where a sect of Brothers would go to obtain herbs and various mushrooms and other fungi. Happening upon the Half-Elf, cradled in a basket too small for his body, they hurriedly took him back to their monastery. Here the Grandmaster would take Kardoden personally under his wing, for if ever their was a kinder, gentler man, Serin had not heard of him. The Grandmaster named him Kardoden after a recently fallen Brother. He nurtured Kardoden back to health and began his training a few years later when Kardoden was able to walk. Years and years passed by, the Grandmaster taught Kardoden the proper way to treat others and to tend to wounds and how to fight without fighting. He also taught him how to defend himself when the time came. Upon Kardoden's seventeenth name day, the Grandmaster informed Kardoden that it was his time to leave saying, 'One must make his own path, Kardoden. You would do well to take what I have taught you and spread it throughout the lands. '. Without another word, the doors to the monastery were shut closed and Kardoden was left alone, again. Aiming to prove himself to the world, Kardoden ventured off into a land unknown.

Abandonment

It is not unknown that true Elves despise the mixture between their ancient race and the race of Humans. What is not known is the depth in which an Elf is willing to go to in such matters. Kardoden does not know exactly where he comes from, he was abandoned in the woods near no known civilization. Fortunately for him, it happened to be the location where a sect of Brothers would go to obtain herbs and various mushrooms and other fungi. Happening upon the Half-Elf, cradled in a basket too small for his body, they hurriedly took him back to their monastery. Here the Grandmaster would take Kardoden personally under his wing, for if ever their was a kinder, gentler man, Serin had not heard of him. The Grandmaster named him Kardoden after a recently fallen Brother. He nurtured Kardoden back to health and began his training a few years later when Kardoden was able to walk. Years and years passed by, the Grandmaster taught Kardoden the proper way to treat others and to tend to wounds and how to fight without fighting. He also taught him how to defend himself when the time came. Upon Kardoden's seventeenth name day, the Grandmaster informed Kardoden that it was his time to leave saying, 'One must make his own path, Kardoden. You would do well to take what I have taught you and spread it throughout the lands'. Without another word, the doors to the monastery were shut closed and Kardoden was left alone, again. Aiming to prove himself to the world, Kardoden ventured off into a land unknown.