Height - 1.9 m
Eyes - Brown
Hair - Brown
Wife - Galianae
Child - Rek'iliane (son)
Title - Ranger, Prince of Dale

Rikland, the youngest son of the King of Dale, younger brother to Krune, crowned Prince of Dale and the uncle to Kaene, son of Krune, crowned Prince of Dale. Rikland was always considered second best, in his family. His mother, who he barely know for she had hidden him in Rivendell, was open to those she knew that she liked her elder son the best. He was quick and showed the signs of a good, fair leader, unlike the tyrannical man she had married and sat on the throne of Dale. It was obvious, even in Rivendell, that the crowned Prince was favored to the younger boy. Rikland grew trying to prove himself to those around him. They did not seem to care that he was the better swordsman, or the btter rider, they only saw him as the sweet child that enjoyed lore and animals over war and leadership, as Krune did.
It was Tenelia who first saw something in Rikland that others did not. She saw that he would be the man to make a difference in the world, even if he was only ten when she left Rivendell. Tenelia saw something in the heart of Rikland that she did not see in the heart of Krune, the cruder, meaner, elder son of the King. Tenelia did not favour the fifteen year old Krune, though it became quite obvious that he favoured her. Krune became fasinated with the young Elf, but that is another story. A long and terrible story ending in death and pain.
As Rikland grew from a young child into a man, he became impatiant with the Elves who had raised him. He loved them like his parents, whom he had never known, but he could not stand the ovious favoritism they showed to the brother who had left years before. Finally, at the age of eighteen, Rikland left his heavenly home to seek the world outside, the world from which he had been sheltered. Rikland became one of the increasingly few Rangers in the world and roamed the lands between Rivendell and the Shire, occasionally meeting his brother, also a ranger of the same area. Rikland became friends with many of the Hobbit families on the outskirts of the Shire and they knew, in their hearts, that he would never betray them, not like Krune, the Ranger they did not trust, or really, truely like for that matter.
Rikland found the Elves once again when he traveled into Rivendell the night they also arrived. They made fast friends, once again, and Rikland slowly introduced Tenelia back to the world she once left, for she was the only one of the Two who left who did not remember. Rikland remembered, Rikland knew why she had left, but he did not tell her that part of her history, he left that for others who could tell the beautiful young creature her story much better than he.
After the Fellowship Undomiel, Rikland left Rivendell once again and traveled deep into the heart of Mirkwood where he was injured and brought was brought back to health by a Human who called the caverns her home. Their relationship, while full of passion and love, did not last for a very long time. The woman was argumentative and did not like ot when Rikland left, like he often did. She grew suspect to her new lover and, the one time she traveled to Rivendell with him, she saw where his heart truely lay, she saw that he truely loved Tenelia, the woman who was now married with a young child. Adriana left in the middle of the night, never to be seen by Rikland nor Rivendell again.
Though Adriana's leaving hurt Rikland greatly, he figured it was for the best and moved on with his life. While visiting family in Gondor, Rikland met a young woman of Rohan, on a mission for her King. He soon fell deeply in love with the young woman he chanced upon in the halls of the White City, deeper in love with her, in fact, than he ever was with Tenelia. They could be seen in the Halls of the White City, laughing and joking, and in the meanwhile each falling even more in love with the other. It was almost like the romance of Aragorn and Arwen, Faramir and Eowyn. Everything was perfect, except for the fact that Rikland did not know who Galianae's father was. She was in fact the sole child and only heir to the King of Rohan. She did not want the Throne, though she had been raised like a warrior, able to defend herself, much like Eowyn, a woman far back in the history of her family. Galianae told Rikland one starless night on the top of a tower in the White City. She told him everything and expected the mere Ranger to leave her there, where she stood and go into the wild. Rikland told her that she had nothing to fear, he told her that he could not leave her, would not leave her.
Rikland and Galianae were wed on midwinters eve, three months later and Rikland found himself on the road to a Kingdon he didn't expect, though that did not turn him away from the woman he loved, and the child she bore him a year later. After traveling a life of misery, death, pain and killing, Rikland finally found a place he belonged. He found a place he loved and, though his heart yearned to see Rivendell once again, he would never leave the place in which he now lived, he would never leave the woman for whom he cared and the child he loved fiercely. Not unless the home in which he grew and the people who had raised him were in the path of an angry enemy, capable of anything. The wheels of time have turned once more and Rikland must choose between the home in which he now lives and the home in which he grew. Both are within sight of an angry diety, both will die if he can not find some way to live.
Rikland will have to make the most important desision of his life and his choice holds the fate of many...whether, it is for good or ill, only time can tell.

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