Vanson ir'Lain

Lord Darro ir'Lain's favorite uncle, this elderly Aundarian noble (NE male half-elf aristocrat 3/ranger 5) has called Stormreach home for nearly fourty years. The half-elf was born to a Lain baron of Aundair and his elf mistress in the Eldeen Reaches when the region was still under Aundairian control, and at the height of paranoia during the purge of lycanthropes. Vanson killed his first shifter at the tender age of twelve and hunted them with his father for decades (long after the purge was called to a halt). After he murdered a family of shifters in the summer of 960 YK, two years after the Eldeen Reaches declared independence, the Aundairan crown exiled Vanson to Stormreach to deflect an international scandal and avoid rekindling the skirmishes along their new-formed border with the Reaches. Vanson claims to have recanted his murderous racism, and if confronted with his crimes he blithely dismisses them, saying that he “was born in different times.” Though he now hunts far more fearsome prey than defenseless communities of shifters, rumor holds that he still keeps an extensive collection of shrunken shifter heads—grisly trophies collected in his “misspent and wild youth.” Vanson is a tall half-elf with distinguished silver hair and an ugly claw scar on the right side of his neck. (He claims it was a “monster,” but the size and shape of it makes it seem to be a razorclaw shifter’s leavings.) Though Vanson appears aged, he is remarkably spry and a hawk-eyed marksman with a longbow.