Varel's past is one marred with grief, and rash decisions. Varel grew up in a large Elven city in a forest in the Old Word where they spent many years protecting and studying the elven culture and magic of their people. They later met a woman named Lumara, both fell in love with one another quickly. In their culture you were bound to one another for eternity upon marriage and both were ready for the commitment.
One day on their anniversary on a cold full moon night, they had traveled out to spend time together, Lumara tripped and fell into a hole in the nearby hill, only for Varel to discover a closing portal with their love no where to be seen. Many years full of grief and study to hopefully return their love passed. Varel quit contact with the outside world entirely save for deliveries of food and more research materials.
Nearly a decade and a half after the event, Varel had found a potential answer, a very risky answer. They called upon a devil using a scroll they had bought with all of their savings. Upon meeting this devil they made an agreement, In return for their ability to speak for 10 years after they completed their side of the deal, the devil would give them the means to create a portal to retrieve their Lover alive and well as told included in the deal. They accepted and went to work, not fully understanding the deal they had just made blinded by rash love. Once complete the portal did in fact lead to where their lover laid alive... the Hells themselves were the location in question, upon creation of this portal Devil and monster alike flooded out of the portal. Varel too weak to stop it using a large portion of their blood and magic to activate it. Their city was destroyed, thousands of years of knowledge burned to ash. Only Varel survived, to this day they are not sure if it was luck, pitty, or the Devil's cruel joke that she be the only survivor.