Allena Benoch

Lady Benoch is a Bosmer, a Wood Elf, and like her ancestors, took to the bow in her early years. She excelled at the sport, and by the age of fourteen, she had joined the hunting party of her tribe as a Jaqspur, a long distance shooter. During the black year of 3E 396, when the Parikh Tribe began their rampage through southeastern Valenwood with the aid of powers from the Summerset Isles, Lady Benoch fought the futile battle to keep her tribe's land.

She first killed someone when she was sixteen. He was just a blur on the horizon where she aimed her bow. It meant no more to her than shooting animals.

That winter, a scout from the Parikh Tribe surprised her while she was on camp watch. In truth, they surprised each other. She had her bow at her side, and panicked trying to string an arrow when he was half a yard away from her. He struck first with his blade, but missed. Lady Benoch fell back in shock. His mistake was assuming that he had drawn blood and she had fallen, and was dead. She rushed at him the moment he turned from her towards the sleeping camp of her tribesmen. He was caught off guard, and Benoch wrested his blade away from him. She then stabbed him until her arms could do it no more. When the next watch came to relieve her, her arms were black and blue with strain. There was not a solid piece of him left, she had literally cut him to pieces.

She begun teaching herself swordsmanship at once. She studied all sorts of weapons wielding under the tutelage of Wardat A'kor, Lady Benoch excelled. She became a freelance adventurer, traveling through the wilds of Hammerfell and Valenwood, protecting caravans and visiting dignitaries from the various dangers indigenous to the population.

She later became the Master of the Valenwood Fighters' Guild after winning a duel from her former master, who was a stooge of Jagar Tharn. She first came to the Emperor's attention when she defended Queen Akorithi of Sentinel from a Breton assassin. She married her servent Uurken after he had been in her service for eleven years.