Isilion Cuthalion (Beleg_Strongbow)
Isilion, which means “son of the moon” (sorta), was conceived and born underneath the moonlight. He grew happily and quietly under the tutelage of his father the mighty warrior and his mother the gentle healer, becoming verygood friends with Himeleth, the daughter of one of his father’s fellow marchwardens. Soon in life he decided he enjoyed singing more than speaking, and was so named Laer-dinen. He was ready and well on the path of becoming a tried and true marchwarden of Doriath like his father — yet his fate and destiny seemed to shatter as he learned of his father’s death by the hand of Turin Turambar. Soon after a long bout of grief and anger, he chose the life of a pacifist, leaving the path of the warrior and going the opposite way. Among the older Sindar he was (and still is) called “Neithan Thenin”, meaning “the one truly wronged,” as he lost his father at a young age.
Isilion remained in Doriath for a time, living in the halls of the Lord Thingol and Lady Melian, learning from his mother Eruntalle the ways of a healer, and growing closer with the lady Himeleth. Soon afterwards, Eruntalle, filled with bitter grief upon losing her husband, left for the Grey Havens. Isilion decided to stay in Doriath and tend to the wounded or the sick that entered Doriath each day, and so he remained, until the downfall of Doriath, the death of Lord Thingol, and the departure of Lady Melian. He fled to the Havens under the trust of Lord Cirdan, and soon joined with Eruntalle again, waiting with her under the hope that perhaps someday the Strongbow would return to them there, or perhaps to the Undying Lands.
Yet as time passed and his father never returned, Isilion begins to have dreams and visions, ones strong enough that cause him to leave the Havens, and to wander the new lands that make up Middle-Earth, often traveling paths once trodden by his father. He soon happens upon Rivendell, and stays there for a time, offering his skills as a healer, assisting Lord Elrond. He soon gains much respect and admiration as it is learned he is the son of the Strongbow. And…as he spends his time quietly in Middle Earth, he begins to think that perhaps his father met a different fate than the one he thought…