A/N: This history may be tweaked sooner or later…depends on audience response.
Disclaimer: Candier is my warrior princess! Mardell is my trusty steed! Everything else belongs to Tolkien.
Candier's History
She was born only a few days before her father was slain in battle. Therefore, she was put under the care of her mother, Gilraen, and her older brother, Aragorn, though he was only two years of age. She fled to Imladris to keep her children safe. She knew that the two of them would be hunted if anyone would find out their true names, so Elrond the Half-Elven gave them the names Estel and Ester. They stayed together for only a mere few years, but Ester, with her curiosity getting the best of her, walked off on one of their mini adventures in Rivendell. They wandered out of the city, and she was captured by a band of orcs when she was only three years of age. Before her brother could help her, she was gone.
There was another girl among the orcs- she looked too old to be a girl, and yet, too young to be a full-grown woman. She was asleep, or at least, she was pretending to be asleep, when Ester approached her. She didn't bother to wake her- she just looked at her face, and noticed the knife hidden in her sleeve. She did nothing else- she found a spot alone, and began to doze off, crying for her mother and her brother.
The next morning, she was forced awake and driven to eat moldy old bread and mucky brown water, while being on the move. She took them without saying a word and tried to fall behind to join the girl, but she was again forced to stay ahead of the pack. She couldn't make a run for it, because her little legs were too small to carry her further away from the pack without being caught. They took no break, save for food, and even then, both women were told to find food for them, and beaten if they didn't comply.
One day, they were told to find food and a place to camp together, but not without the proper chaperone. The tall, black haired woman, made sure that they went as far away from the swarm as possible without making an attempt to find any food. "Hurry it up!" shouted the watcher as he slashed his whip. She took the blow to her back with a cringe, but then recovered quickly. Ester was worried, but the woman only looked to her with a smile and winked. After a ways away from the group, she stopped and pretended to look for food while handing Ester the knife she held in her sleeve. She told her what to do before the orc came up to attack her once again. Before it could get in a blow, his mouth was gagged, and Ester, realizing the situation that they were in, took the knife to where the heart should have been. Not waiting for the orc to drop dead, the woman took Ester on her back and headed south near Rohan.
"I do not know where you come from," said the woman," but I will leave you here. This looks like a safe place."
For the next decade and a half, she was put under the care of the nobles of the Golden Hall of Rohan. At the time, Thengel was the ruling king, and he let her to her own devices. Forgetting the name Ester, and about her brother, she called herself Aria. She ended up becoming the only woman in history to ride with the Rohirrim, and no doubt the youngest rider they had. She became a valuable warrior, but it came a time where she realized that she was not a native of Rohan. She thanked them for their hospitality, and rode off to Rivendell, having a feeling in her heart that she would find what she needed there.
Only days after she arrived in Rivendell, Aragorn, already aware of his true lineage and the rest of his family line, went out into the Wild; part of the reason was to find his lost sister. He served in Rohan under the name Thorongil under Thengel's rule.
Meanwhile, in Rivendell, Elrond saw a familiar face entering his city. "Ester… it has been too long!" he said as he embraced her. She was confused as to who he was until a memory or her past popped up in her head. "Lord…Elrond?" she said. She smiled, and she wept as she pulled him in for a close embrace.
"How did you escape?" he asked her, leading her to her old room. She told him what she remembered of the woman who helped her break away from the band of orcs holding her captive.
"Do you know her name?" he asked her. She shook her head.
"She didn't give me a name, but she left me in Rohan to keep me safe."
He thought for a moment about the identity of the woman, but his train of thought was cut off.
"Elrond, where is my brother?" she asked, remembering the day she was captured.
"He left here only days before to find you. I wouldn't let him leave until he was ready to go out into the Wild."
She stood up and went for the door and without another word from Elrond she ended with these words:
"I'm going to go find my brother."
Before she left, she got herself acquainted with Arwen Evenstar. They became great friends, and headed out into the Wild together. She called her Elanor, since she was heading to Lorien (when she was young, she would hear about Elanor flowers that grew in Lothlorien) from where she had come to meet Aragorn. When they came to the Golden Wood, Ester stayed for a while before parting her way to find her brother. In timely intervals, she slowly becomes acquainted with the Rangers, and tells them to call her Aria. She went to Gondor once before, and became acquainted with Mardell, and told the horse her true name, knowing that it would not come out. She was to keep herself a secret. Not even Denethor knew who she was.