Height - 1.8 m
Eyes - Dark Blue
Hair - Light Blonde
Children - Kaiden (son of Kiadile)
Ellartin (son of Elladan, deseased)
Loriena (daughter of Elladan)
Husband - Kiadile (deseased)
Lover - Lord Elladan of Rivendell
Title - Messenger
Basilartiena, Basil to her friends, has had a long, hard and lonely life. Her parents were killed when she was but a child of 80 and her father's title, that of Messenger, was passed on the her. She was the first female Messenger in the recorded history of Mirkwood, her forest home. As a Messenger, Basil became close with her King along with many Lords and Kings across the land, and one in particular.
The man, or Elf, whom Basil gave her love was not the man she had been promised to. The man she was to marry, Kiadile, the father of her first son, Kaiden, Basil dispised. She could not believe her parants had arranged her marrage when she was barely 40. She was not actually given to Kiadile in marrage until she was about 200 years of age, but she dreaded every day before her marrage and she hated almost every moment they were married. It was almost a relief when Kiadile was killed before the birth of their only child, but Basil had to make it appear as if she cared that he had died before 100 years of marrage. So, she named her first child Kaiden. Basil was only 295 and she had a child to care for and a Title that forced her to be constantly on the move.
One faithful evening, Basil was riding to Rivendell, her son still in Mirkwood, when she happened upon a group leaving. They stopped her to ask where she was going, for threats had been arising. It was that moment Basil would meet Lord Elladan, Elrond's son, the only man she ever loved. It was obvious from the first words exchanged between the two that their lives would forever be affected by this chance meeting on the plain. Both knew that it would be a terrible scandle if the world knew of the love that had sparked between an Elven Lord and the mere, though important, Messenger of the Mirkwoodian King.
It was this Elf that would father her second son, Ellartin, and her only daughter, Loriena. The Lord and the Messenger were never formally married, in fact they were never married at all which made there relationship, and children, even more scandalous. Elladan could not admit to his father that he was having a relationship with the Messenger that seemed to be around Rivendell more often, just as Basil could not admit to Elladan that he had fathered two children. Basil, though her heart was telling her to stay with this Elf, made herself leave Lord Elladan, once and for all. She gave him one last night and one last kiss before she rode off, over the mountains and into rumors of great sickness and death.
The illness was brought about by the discovery of her first son, Kiaden, leaving for the West, her second son's, Ellartin's, rumored death and the discovery that she was once again pregnant, this was to be her third child. She became depressed and hid within the caverns of Mirkwood for many a year, leaving only to deliver the most important messages from her King. She would not go to Rivendell, no matter how important the message until the day the King threated the loss of her position unless she delivered his messages to where he pleased. Basil reluctantly took the message from her king to Rivendell, 200 years after her departure.
It was apon her arrival in Rivendell that she heard the news of Elladan. He had married and his new wife had just given birth to a child, his third, though he did not know it. She eventually cornered him, and it was obvious that he had been avoiding her the entire time she had been present in his home. She confessed everything to her one time lover. She told him all about his children by her, their son definetly dead for he had married a human woman, Lady Fionnuala, from the South of Rohan. She told him of her daughter and how Loriena had his hair and his bright eyes. She then left Lord Elladan in his shock and returned to her life as a Messenger, uncaring about anybody except her few friends and her beloved daughter, the only child she had left.
