What is easy to learn IC: Malglanaer was born as the sun set over the sea, hence his name. He is a grey-elf but bears no particular allegiance to either people of the Elves. If pressed about his past, he will admit that he did his duty, but is not interested in fighting or politics. Instead, he enjoys the simple things in life, such as nature (though he prefers the lowlands to the mountains), people of all races and species and the arts and the crafts. He is an ambassador of the elf-harbours, especially to Dwarf-kin everywhere.

More background:

Malglanaer was born in the second age to refugees from Beleriand who had fled the rising waters to Edhellond. He was born at the hour when the sun touches the water, and so was named Malglanaer, “golden shining sea”. Having never seen the sunken land himself, Malglanaer grew up to know the grief of his people, but he did not share it. The sea which covered his parent’s homeland and marked the grave of his forefathers was all he had ever known. And like every elf, he had a love for the waters and the waves of his home.

Sailing alone on his little boat or reading tales of old in the libraries, Malglanaer mostly studied alone, without many Elves of his own age in the vicinity. The old elves gradually sailed West, and newcomers to Edhellond usually did not stick around long. So Malglanaer was mostly left to his own devices during his younger years.

However war did not sleep even in the lands of Edhellond, and after a while Malglanaer’s family was too drafted into the war. Untrained in the arts of war, Malglanaer was drafted into a regiment of footsoldiers where he served mostly as a healer, while his father went with the wardens. It was only until a while later that Malglanaer learned his father perished in battle, or that his mother became mad with grief at these news and vanished from her own post. Malglanaer followed her tracks years later but they vanished in the wilderness towards Edhellond. He still hopes that she reached the white ships and was brought to Valinor but he has accepted that he will probably never know for sure.

When Edhellond was abandoned Malglanaer moved to the Grey Havens, where he could stay close to his beloved waters. He took work as an assistant to the harbour master, helping with the ships and cargo going in and out. After a while, as he was still curious to learn of new peoples and cultures, he was promoted to an ambassador and messenger of the master of the harbour.