Rakashan began life as a mortal, he showed great promise as a warrior and philosopher when he was captured by the Drow and made a slave. For decades he toiled and silently resented his masters, but he hated the treatment that the slave children received daily by their cruel masters. Finally he could take no more and hatched a daring plan to kill their slave masters and escape, while his plan was successful Rakashan himself was struck down by a stray arrow during the escape. Even in death Rakashan's soul remained bound to the Drow city, many slaves would see a specter scowling at the slave masters but would smile at them. In death those he had saved spread his legend across the lands and he slowly over the years gained enough of a following to enable him to transcend death and become a god.