Sylvanis Le Kartraex....Sylk: remembers little of his early youth, other than dancing and singing joyous songs with his parents and all the other Moon Elves of his Kin. Bit’s of memory from well over a decade ago in a peaceful forest far away to the east.

Then one day, at the age of 9, Sylvanis’s parents bade him to prepare for a long journey. They said Evil had gripped our forest and that the trees were dying. Three days later every Elf Sylvanis knew was on the move, heading west, stalking along the Realms mostly at night, but sometimes during the day, but only under great concealment. Well, as concealed as 2,300 Elves can be.

For 2 months they traveled this way, it was very slow, going so “unnoticed”. Then one night something happened. Sylvanis was too young to have understood, and therefore could not to this day remember what was actually going on that night, 11 years ago.

All Sylvanis remembers is a loud sound, not a bang, but a long, lasting boom, and the earth shaking. His Mother came to him and lifted him, together they fled as fast as she could run. Voices, no shouts, in the distance, then his Father catches up with them, his clothes were blood-soaked and blackened(burned, Sylvanis later figured out) and the 3 of them fled alone into the west.

They eventually made their way to the Misty forest where they made a decent living until one day Bandits killed his father and took Sylvanis and his mother in bondage and sold them as slaves. They were sold separately, and that was the last Sylvanis had known of parents.

Sylvanis was sold to a ruthless old land baron who resided in Waterdeep, The Baron did all sorts of obscene things with his young slave-boys. Sylvanis had luckily been spared that fate since the Baron already had a preferred ‘play-toy’ at the time of the elf’s arrival. By the time the Baron moved on to his next victim, Sylvanis had already begun to make himself very useful at other, more practical, tasks.

This included sneaking into the Baron’s enemy’s estates and offices to find incriminating info on them, or anything that would give the Baron a political ‘edge’.

One day Sylvanis was caught by a member of a Guild(who shall not be named) and questioned about his motives. The Woman not only liked Sylvanis’s answer, she offered to train him and give him a true skill at the rogue business.

From that day forth Sylvanis Le Kartraex, the slave, now operated as Sylk when ‘prowling’, Sylk even did some work directly for the guild one time. Highly irregular for such an under-trained rogue, but their task needed a young Elf and Sylk was their best option. (again, to protect guild secrets, the details of that endeavor cannot be divulged here)

Sylk made enough money on the success of his 1st official guild assignment that he was able to buy(through an illegal 3rd party) the servitude of Sylvanis Le Kartraex, the slave. Shortly after, he arranged for the freedom of the unjustly bonded Sylvanis Le Kartraex and reassumed the name and identity for everyday affairs.

The Baron was arrested, but never stood trial, he was found dead, cut his own throat is the official story, but otherwise has been rumored in certain circles.