Abandonas Family

The Family

The story of Abandonas family begun more than a half a century ago.

The father of the 4 brothers was a merchant of noble blood at the Colonies and his family estate was in Iglavik, then controlled by the mighty realm of Oritolon. However he left the realm to trade goods around the world. He was particularly impressed by East Continent where he stayed for years. He travelled all around the lands but he was mostly fascinated by the City of Avamar and its unique beauty.

There he met a drow woman that was to become the mother of Lalakis and Amraedil and like the rest of her race, was living enslaved by the elves of West Sirion imprisoned in underground dungeons. Now rumors had it, that the Drow Elves of West Sirion had been actually a cross breed of Humans and proper pointy-ears, but because they were living for hundreds of years away from the sunlight their skin turned pale, while their hair took a silver colour and their eyes usually had strange colours like red or purple. Most of them had retain the fragile body structure and pointy ears of their ancestors.

The patriarch of the family, enchanted by the drow's culture was more and more involved to their culture and became more and more affiliated to them. Finally he fell in love with a woman. Touched by her life-time sentenced to darkness he decided to free her (the 4 brothers now comment that this was a characteristic of their father that they inherited). The plan was perfectly executed and the mother of Lalakis and Amraedil managed to escape the dungeons of Avamar. Then the couple found shelter to a nearby village for the next years. The drow woman remained hidden for few more years and whenever she was out in public she was always covering her silver hair and pointy ears with a kerchief. The villagers eventually accepted the strange couple, which after few years gave birth to a beautiful child: Lalakis. Years passed and Amraedil was also born there. It seemed that nothing could disturb the hapiness of the couple. But gradually they became less and less worry and careful. And one day the Elves came, searching for the refugee. Abandonas patriarch delayed them as the mother of the two young children hide them in a barn. Although the children were never found, the mother was captured while trying to return to her husband. She was executed as soon as she was reckognised.

The pain of the father was unbearable. And to make things even worse, the children were nowhere to be found. After months of fruitless search, the devastated man took the first boat to Atamar and left the continent swearing never to return.

But amazingly the two kids survived the terrible fate of their mother. Listening to the screams of their captured mother and knowing that their lives were also in danger if they were found, they left the barn and wandered for days in the dark woods of Elmbar, Flismar and Limbar. They were fed by roots and fruits and once they felt that the threat was gone they returned. But more about their story later...

The patriarch now, having lost his wife and two children wandered for long in Atamara. Finally he settled to Southasland, where the City of Tucha lied. He spent few years there, accompanied by a noble woman of unknown origin. But nevertheless they had obviously good time together, as Leo Abanadonas was soon born. But his father was restless and he couldn't stay for long at the same place anymore. And thus he one day left, leaving Leo and his mother alone. Although Leo's mother tried to turn the children against his dissapeared father, the only result was to make him a restless spirit like his father was.

Now the father was back home, in Iglavik, Colonies. He stayed there, married a local girl and gave birth to Dimitr, the most obedient and well behaved brother of the four. When he passed away, Dimitr was so shocked that he lost his voice for months. Since then he speaks only rarely and only when there is something really important to be said. He was also very attached to his mother and he never left Oritolon until she was dead.