Biography
<P>As a child, Tarmuar lived with his father and mother on the western slopes of South Karana, farming the land for what is was worth and trading with the Aviaks and Centaurs for a living.</</P>
<p>His memories of the land, the smell of the earth as his father tilled it in the light rains that seemed to forever permeate the air of Karana, the way the sun, rare as it were, would shine in his mother's eyes whenever she brought food to the pair forever hard at work tending the farm, will forever stay in his mind, for good or bad.</p>
<p>For it was at an age of 10 that the gnolls of Splitpaw erupted from the ground, taking everything that he held near to his heart and life from him, crushing it into the ground and destroying all that was Tarmuar. They emerged from their lair in the center of South Karana like a plague, a disease that spread through the lands like wildfire. Tarmuar watched in horror as the dog faced monsters devoured his parents, and only by luck and the will of Tunare was he spared the same fate.</p>
<p>A centaur by the name of Clevlin Shardhoof, a fast friend of the family and a trader who often bought Tarmuar's fathers crops, found him a day after the massacre. He whisked the man-child away before the gnolls could return, taking him north and east to the heart of the centaur city. Yet it was forbidden for a human to stay within the city walls, an Clevlin knew this. He hid the child and summoned Garnen Aspenrow, a wood elf of Felwithe, to help him save the boy.</p>
<p>Tarmuar remembered the flight only in short spurts of dark dreams, for even as he rushed through North and West Karana on a nightmare ride against the setting sun he could only see the snarling mauls of the gnoll invaders as they took what he so loved in a vicious attack. West and ever west he rode with his companion, finally to the Northern Hills of Qeynos and then to Surefall Glade, home of the rangers and druids.</p>