Virana - Hunter of Hellspawn

Virana was raised as the daughter of ranger parents, in Nan Thalias’ old capital of Elen Estel. She had shown promise as a tracker in her youth, placing highly in her peers during training and standing out in athletic events as well. It was during scout training: a one-month excursion into the forests east of the city that Virana’s life was forever changed. In this time, Quorenderi, dark divine of the deep sea, flooded the city of Elen Estel, unleashing torrents of water from beneath the earth alongside swathes of his fiends and aberrations from the deep. The city was destroyed, alongside tens of thousands of its Elven inhabitants. Virana’s parents fought in its defence, but ultimately were felled by the foul spawn of the dark divine. On returning from the trek, Virana, alongside her peers, were all distraught. Her like many of her kin, were now orphans. Those from her expedition were taken in by various Ranger Conclaves on order of the Nan Thalian Crown. So for years, Virana was under the guidance of a Hunter’s Conclave in the reaches of Unviel. Yet for Virana, the beast she sought to hunt was none that walked this mortal plane: she instead focused her final and formative years on literature pertaining to Mindoriel’s Spawn and their ilk, using it to find the few places in Tharador they might fester, track them and slay them. She become a holy avenger with nature’s grace on her side, and even when Elen Estel was restored and her parents brought to life, her path did not waiver. For she had spent over fifty years without them, two thirds of her life. She was joyed for them to return, but the only life she had known in their absence was hunting fiends, and it was still the life she aimed to live, to ensure none could suffer what she suffered again. Now she joins the Church of the Tharameni in their search for shards of Namneri’s shattered Chalice, acting as a protector and tracker for their search parties, many of whom had come under attack by spawn of Nosmarka during their journeys.