Zaeurl is an elven woman from the Eldeen Reaches (though it was part of Aundair at the time), and the warlord of the Watching Wood in Droaam. She is a natural lycanthrope and a survivor of the Silver Crusade. She was a child at the time, and witnessed her entire family massacred by templars of the Silver Flame in 838 YK. She spent the next 130 years hunting and killing followers of the Silver Flame, primarily in Aundair, before she eventually retreated into the Eldeen Reaches in 968 YK to form the Great Pack.
Zaeurl and her pack then migrated south into the land that would become Droaam, to the Watching Wood, and made it clear to the various chibs that they just wanted to be left alone, but wouldn't hesitate to destroy anyone that threatened them. In 986 YK, the Daughters of Sora Kell approached Zaeurl with an offer of protection from the Church of the Silver Flame, provided the pack swear fealty to the Daughters and help form the fledgling nation of Droaam. Zaeurl accepted this offer, and is now one of the Daughters most loyal supporters.