Born to the Wood Elf clans of the Yuirwood of Algarond, Vaxz has been part of ancient traditions of the forests his whole life. Surrounded by Druids and Rangers of the Emerald Enclave, he was ordained a "Springwarden" and given a sacred assignment far from his home.
The ancient Yuir traveled the wide world, erecting mystical standing stones (called menhir) in places of importance to the natural world. These stones could serve as portals between places, and gave the Yuir and those who learned their ways the ability to range widely. Vaxz was taught the path between one of these stone circles in the Yuirwood and a location far far to the west, near the shores of the Sea of Swords. The location was called The Place of the Unicorn, and indeed visited by those creatures from time to time - but mainly the site of a Moongate, a portal that can connect to the Yuirstones on the night of the full moon.
Vaxz is promised to Selûne (seh-LOON-eh), the Moonmaiden - some say the moon itself - and in that Circle of the Moon, he will gain the power to take on the shapes of Beasts or to call upon a Fey Beast as a temporary companion.