Aster

Talde Silvertree lived the first half of his life as a trapper and woodsman in the village of Elisair. He was a quiet and peaceful elf who deeply loved his native forest of Selkwood. However, near the end of his prime, in his hundred and thirty-first summer, shame was brought to the Silvertree name thanks to Talde's actions. He had been accused and convicted by the elders of Elisair of being a drow sympathizer and was outcast from Selkwood. In their shame, Talde, his sister and his cousin left Selkwood, never to return, and travelled to make their home in the woods on the western shores of Lake Everclear.

It was in this forest that Aster was born, many decades later. Aster was the fifth of six children born unto Talde and his wife (little is known about Aster's mother except that she may have been half-elven; Aster does not like to speak about her). Aster lived the first eighty years of her life there, in the forest, with her father, mother, three brothers, two sisters, aunt, uncle, and cousins in a close and independent family. She learned a lot about the ways of the wilds from her father and from the many travellers her family took in who passed through the woods. She heard tales of far away lands and strange creatures which made her young imagination run wild, inspiring her with a lifetime of incurable wanderlust. However, this all came to an end on one cold, rainy night when her father took in the wrong traveller.

Kodama Sal'Devir came to the Silvertree home that night. Kodama appeared in the night, a tall drow in rain-soaked clothing, wandering, seemingly lost, through the forest. Talde approached the drow in the darkness of the woods and the two spoke to each other in hushed tones. After a short time, Talde brought Kodama into the home and introduced him to the family. The elves were uneasy under the gaze of the drow's amber eyes, but welcomed him in, none-the-less. He was given a warm bed to stay the night in, on the condition that he left them the next day. The elves went to sleep that night in the company of a killer.

Aster was awakened first by the screams, then jostled by her frantic Uncle. "Run, child, take your sister and run! Run and don't look back!" her uncle said to her as he ushered the two elven girls to their home's back entrance. Aster glanced behind her and met Kodama's gaze as he stood over her father's bloody, dead body which lay cold upon the floor. The two girls ran as fast as they could as their uncle turned to face the dark killer. And so Aster and her younger sister were the only two remaining members of the Silvertree line after that night.

Aster sent her sister to Selkwood then made her way to Exile with a hard heart. She studied with the city's trainers with a passion, in hopes of someday finding the drow called Kodama and extracting a bloody vengeance. With the skills her father taught her and her faith in ways of Nature, she learned her trade fast and ventured to the most dangerous places in Taslamar to test her skill. Her skills grew with time and thanks to the wisdom of some veteran scouts she met in her travels. She owes much of her learning to the scouts Welverin, Kharmyss, Tarak, and, most especially, to the legendary elven hunter, Abane T'sliasha.

Aster is now known to make her home in the wild reaches of Ayamao. She can often be found roaming the wilds with any of a number of animal friends. She is quite shy but also friendly to all she meets, except for drow, for whom she has no tolerance. She is also known to be a member of a secretive group known as the Druids, which is thought to be based in Ayamao. How she became involved with the Druids is not known, though it is thought to have been a result of her friendship with the S'hochi tribe which once held sway over the Ayamaoan lands.

The drow Kodama was never again seen by Aster, though her desire for vengeance has been replaced by her unshakable faith in and love for Nature.