Once the head of the Honning family, a noble line of brew-makers in Avalon, Adar fell madly in love with Esmerelda Honning after meeting her on a merchant expedition into the The Stillwoods. Unbeknownst to Adar, this unholy union would spell his end as he was slowly driven mad by the ever-intensifying demands of the elusive crone in disguise. When the tension boiled over and Adar attempted to cast Esmerelda Honning out of the Emerald Estate, she instead turned the families bee hive on Adar as they killed him with thousands of frenzied stings. Covering up his murder, the crone Esmerelda Honning carefully grafted what was left of Adar into a resurrected puppet which she used to terrorize the city-goers of Avalon and kidnap children from the local orphanages. Unwillingly aiding Esmerelda Honning in her latest plot to sabotage the Merrythane family, Adar kidnapped Glovar Merrythane and killed Kavogrot Merrythane before being tracked down to the Emerald Estate and slain by Shanara the Salamander.