Eliud was born in The Living Lands to two orlan parents. They were expecting a litter, but all that came was a single, grey orlan with strange wrinkles covering her cheeks. The midwife assumed it was just extreme dry-skin and gives them a balm, assuming everything was fine, until Eliud's mother fainted and died.
When another midwife came to check on the mother, she realized the child was a death-godlike, and the mother's death was a message from Berath.
Eliud's father refuses to cull his daughter, taking everything from his home, the two sailed towards The Eastern Reach, landing in the deserts of Ixamitl. All though for the first decade of their time there, they were mostly unbothered, living a quiet life moving around in the savannas. One day, when they decide to settle in a small community, their discovery of Eliud, now with a full carapace growth on her head, caused an outcry of a coming death for the community and demanded that she must be sacrificed in order to appease the gods from bring any plagues. She was pulled from her beaten father's arms and tied upon a post for several days, until one day, they found the post empty and her father missing.
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Much of Eliud's days between her escape to the day she decided to follow a caravan towards Dyrwood blurred, unknown if the memories leaked into her head were really hers or thoughts that screamed loudly from the world. Eventually, someone who caught her peering into a strangers thoughts exclaimed she was a cipher, and offered to teach her during their travels towards Dyrwood. With a cane in hand, she finds herself stuck in an old ruin with two others of the travelers.
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After ending the Hollowborn crisis, Eliud gains recognition of being a Benevolent being, willing to assist and give shelter to weary travelers who pass upon Caed Nua. Many of her friends leave her at Twin Elms, leaving with baby Vela, whom she promised to bring to Eir Glanfath one day with Hiravias when she was of age.
5 years later, Caed Nua was destroyed. The news spread fast, reaching all the way to Edér, who just unboarded a ship from Aedyr. Rushing to the castle, he found the bloodied ground, and a large footprint with the mangled body of Eliud.
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A charming orlan shiphand, which Edér remembered somewhat fondly, looking a bit like his fallen friend by his side in the casket, suddenly fell ill, eventually being found dead in his berth, a few moments later, he returned to life, claiming to know everything about Edér, until revealing he was the Watcher Eliud, inhabiting the body of this orlan after her body was destroyed beyond mending. She takes on the orlan's, Wendelin, identity, most of her missing memories after half of her soul/memories was taken by Eothas. Feeling comfortable in the new body, he began his chase towards the god.
OK Meta lore. I'll talk about Eliud if it's POE1 related, Wendelin if its POE2, but they're both the same person, and I consider that Wendelin would be considered genderfluid and respond to either identities. When Wendelin get's the other part of his soul back (which was mostly Eliud's essence and most of the memories of PoE1, there's a big inner conflict about 1. Their completely different personalities, Eliud being more diplomatic and benevolent, and Wendelin being more ruthless and deceitful and 2. Eliud's utter grief about Hiravias leaving, and now with Wendelin's thing with Serafen going on, there's a bit of guilt about maybe they're substituting their feelings in Serafen and using him yknow?
