As yet, no one within the Warband knows much of Ridarans life before he ended up in Imladris. He hails from Lorian but what role he had there and why that Sylvan realm is no longer his home is not clear. He has hinted of a lost love cruelly slain and of some sort of mission of revenge embarked upon to track down those who killed her, but for now refuses to be drawn further on this matter. Whether his strong mistrust and dislike of the Race of Man is linked to those events is also unclear...