A biography of our beloved guild founder, Havena Tanuviel.
Havena, a Dermorian Elf near a millennia old, lived in Yliakum still remembering the freedom and culture of long lost Dermoria. Having been blinded as a child, she did not know the path by which she was taken when her people fled from the Dark Raiders. But she did know that her parents refused to leave her homeland when it was attacked, and died in its defence.

A century later her sight was restored by a wandering mystic healer, who found her crafting garments on the roadside of Hydlaa. Having her sight restored beyond what it ever was, she went everywhere, seeing everything; all there was to be seen. This hunger for discovery never left her, and she founded the Explorers Guild, swearing that when they reached the surface a New Dermoria would be founded, where all may again be free to wander and hunt by the light of a True Sky.

With Havena’s zeal at it’s head, and the steady feet of many adventurers, the Explorers Guild quickly came to fame. Havena set a tradition of reaching places high and distant, secret and hidden, thought unreachable even by the gods. Her companions followed in the foundation she set, and the Guild took the legacy beyond the limits.

Havena spent much time as Yliakum’s most diligent crystal hunter, becoming, although relatively new, the second wealthiest citizen known. Her brethren the Explorers were not to be outdone either, some achieving feats like holding more liquid wealth than any other person in the Realm. With such relentlessness, with growing wisdom and skill, the Guild achieved the unthinkable, overtaking even the ancient guilds to become the twice as rich as the previous wealthiest Guild.

She directed the largest crystal artwork ever seen, she made many friends, won races and prizes, uncovered many secrets, saw many things and was one of the wisest and most fruitful of Yliakum. Until she vanished.

Her companions had discovered a way to scale the upward surface of the rocky sky dome of Yliakum. As Havena scaled and explored the face of the sky, she strayed very near the deadly rays of the Great Crystal, and there she found a fissure in the rock. Upon squeezing her way into the rock, she found the passage led ever upwards, but fell creatures stayed her path.

Drunk with hope of finding the surface, she returned to Yliakum to do what would be her last feat in the underland; she spent her fortune and equipped herself to the teeth, becoming the most heavily armed character Yliakum had ever seen. Without stopping for farewells, she slipped again into the Azure Sky.

In her absence the Explorers stayed true to their path, waiting through the months for her word. That word came, but she would return only that once, to hand on the sword of the guild to Nilaya her most faithful friend. Few had the skill to follow her into the hidden caverns, and none could purchase the weaponry that would be needed for the Guild to follow.

With a tempest of joy and sorrow in her heart Havena said her farewells, and departed from the underland forever. Now she hunts in forests under the True Sky, and one day when we conquer the Stone Labyrinths we will greet her, where she sits upon the founding stone of New Dermoria.