Sif Amarth
A half-elven Ranger from the Lands of the Linnorm Kings.
Sif's mother hails from the city of Battlewall in the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, land of the only female king, White Estrid and the only Linnorm King to claim her throne with a living linnorm beside her, rather than one dead at her feet. Her mother was an outspoken, overly independent Ulfen woman, who driven to misandry by the barbarity and rapaciousness of the local warriors, took to life among the sorority of Shield-Maidens.
When serving as an Ulfen Raider in a War Party border-skirmishing in Irrisen, she encountered and fell in love with a Snowcaster elf who was travelling as a Twilight Speaker spy for the great elven cities of the Crown of the World. Falling deeply in love with the slender elf and not much caring for her homeland and people, they struck off together, taking refuge in the wilderness for a while and allowing her to dodge the advances of the local men. Travelling throughout the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, and finding love together in the loney places of the snow-bound country, they shared a companionship that overcame the barriers between races.
Her Mother returns back to her home village in Battlewall after Sif is born, and her elven father returns to his homeland to report what he has learned, but her mother is shunned for her miscegenation, and forced to raise Sif in the wild, fleeing to the Grungir forest on the mainland.
With such an upbringing, her mother's bitterness toward Ulfen men and the society that discarded her seeps into her daughter. Sif is leary of sharing her feelings or trusting anyone...men in particular, but has a sort of loyal and underlying urge to help all in need, as she so needed help during her harsh and lonely childhood...wanting to be a part of something, but never truly belonging.
Now a master of the wilds, Sif travels south, her mother having grown wizened and passing on from old age as Sif retained the everyouth of her half-elven parentage. Bondless after her mothers death, without family or a people, Sif travels to take in the wildlands of other nations. now having wandered all the way to egalitarian Andoran, she finds a people more curiously accepting of her mixed heritage and willing to accept the powerful woman that she has become.
