The youngest of four children, Rennuid Tathviel often felt he had a lot to live up to, to show himself as a worthy person to match his elder siblings. That is why he placed a terrible importance on the rite that would mark his passage into -- physical, only, mind you now -- adulthood, the Ylthuun-Aut'torr. He went to great lengths to create a bow for the rite, that would be unmatched by any other - though he did not go entirely unaided in his endeavor.

Shortly after his 70th birthday -- which, for the less long-lived, marked him solidly as a teenager -- on the ancient founding day of the Tathviel clan, Rennuid Tathviel performed the Ylthuun-Aut'torr and was met by a wave of susurration from the audience...

...For the secret kept from those who had yet to perform the rite was that when a true heir of the clan fired an arrow into the ancient Uunbanthe'adai tied to their name, they would suffer a phantom pain to match that felt by the living vine. And Rennuid? Why...