Ilethen. Ilethen ún Ilethiel ún Gillanholm; half elf, half human. Left to the care of her mother with an absentee father, she only knows the elven world from the beginning. Yosie was brought up by her elvish mother and her mother’s father in the wilderness skirting the forested commune of Gillanholm, her mother’s ancestral home. Her grandfather, being an Elf of medicine educated Yosie in gathering the necessary plants and how to adapt and administer them in healing. Through this she also learned the more sinister aspects in this art and how medicine, just as it heals, can also poison. Yosie’s mother never spoke about her father save to say he was a human from the north. When Yosie’s grandfather died and there was no longer a patriarch to protect the human child’s right to stay among the Elves, Yosie was separated from her mother and forced out of Gillanholm. Yosie took the excommunication as an opportunity to fin...