Stenwick Gurles is a Breton and the current Sentinel of the Viridian Woods. One day, he stumbled upon the unconscious and injured Princess Elara, Queen Arzhela's daughter. He brought her back to his cabin in the woods, where he tended to her wounds and nursed her back to health with the help of special powers granted to him by his title. In doing so, he unintentionally groomed her to be his successor, as he his growing quite old.