Eleniel

Eleniel is the elf warrior who found Jonathan River as a baby in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"). She raised him until he was seven and then brought him to the Archon.¹²

Finding Jonathan

Jonathan was found as an infant, wrapped in blue cloth, near a northern branch of the sacred river Calinor-dal. The young, low-ranking elf soldier who found him raised him herself; his name River comes from where he was found and is not a family name. Jonathan thinks of her as a mother, though he says the two were never quite that close.²¹

Jonathan does not know her rank for certain. Once he remembered it as something like a lieutenant or a captain; elsewhere he described her as a soldier who had been a corporal at the southern border outpost of the middle crater, adding that he did not know whether she was still a soldier.³⁴

The outpost

Jonathan describes the place where he grew up as an elf outpost at the end of one of the branches of the Calinor-dal, inside the Empire under a treaty and largely symbolic. Painters and musicians live there, and its buildings are shaped by singing to stone and trees over long years, so that a work of a century is thought nothing unusual. Wood elves are known to shape their homes by growing untouched trees with magical songs.³⁵

Letters and a last wish

Jonathan has not seen her face to face since he left for school at seven, but the two write to each other; a letter from her a year earlier told him she was alive. When he thought he might die, he asked an elf commander to send his personal journal, a diary he had kept for a long time, to the woman who had found him as a baby, and the commander agreed. Later, searching for a gift, Jonathan realised how much he wished to see her again, and wept.²⁴⁶