Dathae

Dathae was a swanmay ranger of Mielikki from Essembra in Battledale in the 12 and 13 centuries DR. She was a noted bearer of the holy Mielikkian spellbook known as Yornar's Trail Companion.

Relations
Dathae was the wife of the ranger Rhighaermon O'Antlers. He was a nobleman of Waterdeep who'd renounced his title and was the bearer of Yornar's Trail Companion.

History
Dathae married Rhighaermon in the. Notably, they hung the glowing, crescent-moon-shaped Companion over their bridal bed. Afterward, while on their honeymoon, Rhighaermon finally delivered the Companion to the priest Klavaeron of Cedarsproke in the Gulthmere Forest. During this journey, Dathae's double-life as a swanmay was revealed, and they stayed together all their life.

Many years later, in the, Rhighaermon's path crossed that of the Companion again, when a mind flayer unwittingly tried to trade it to him in a bazaar in Murghyr in Murghôm. Rhighaermon killed the mind flayer and stole back the Companion, then carried it to the closest temple of Mielikki, in Maerlar in Mulhorand, though he suffered mortal injuries from the mind flayer's doppelganger minions. Mielikki herself slew the doppelgangers and carried the dying Rhighaermon to her realm. It was left to Dathae to complete the Companion ' s journey, carrying it from Maerlar to the next Mielikkian priest in the book's 'Rightful Cycle'.