Farildal was born in Gondor, the daughter of an Ithilien Ranger and a woman of somewhat noble birth of Dol Amroth. Her parents were unfortunately slain during an orc raid when she was only twelve years old. Orphaned, she was taken in by her aunt and uncle from her mother’s side. Calaeth, her cousin, was the youngest daughter of three siblings, the two others being boys. 

Fueled by what had happened to Farildal’s family, the two girls started training with the boys from a young age, under the guidance of Calaeth’s father, Nastandîr, a captain in the Gondorian army.

While Calaeth had followed closely in her father’s footsteps, Farildal discovered that the apple had not fallen far from the tree: She inherited the love for plants and animals from her father and soon she realised that the tall, majestic walls of Dol Amroth were too cold for her. Following Nastandîr’s advice, she left the city at the age of eighteen to find the Rangers of Ithilien. She found a new home with the faction that had been once under her father’s leadership, thus they took her in and trained her as their own. 

For many years she did not venture outside the known Gondorian borders.

Due to her solitary nature, she didn’t enjoy crowded places. She preferred the quiet of a forest and wished she could understand the language of the animals as Radagast did. While her wish could never be fulfilled, she learned to interpret the nature around her, to listen to it, heal it and use it to heal others, but not all hope was lost. Through fate or luck, life brought her the most peculiar friend, a Beorning, a skin-changer from the Vales of Anduin. 

While sometimes she still had a hard time following the giant in his adventures, the two remain close companions to this day.