Radagast isn’t a normal man, he remembers waking up from deep sleep inside of a hollowed out oak tree. He knows only 2 things, his name, his age, and why he was sent there. His name was Aiwendil, which means bird-friend, he is almost 500 years of age. He decided to study animals and nature, he became a skilled animal care-taker and learned how to care for almost all the animals. He had a strange ability to connect with the animals in a way. He stayed at the Tatas Grove for awhile to study the nature of the animals living there. What made him realize his truth path is when he was walking past a farm a pack of wolves began circling a child and her dog. Aiwendil quickly sprung into action and got between the chid and the wolves. He approached the pack leader and patted it on the head. The wolf howled and the pack left the area and went into the forest. The child after the incident asked “Stranger in brown, what is your name?” Aiwendi replied with “Aiwendil is the only name I know”. The girl only 5 years old couldn’t pronounce Aiwendil so she decided to call him Ragnar The Brown, after her dog and because he wears the color in brown. He said “I enjoy that name, I will keep it.” He strode off with his knew name which everyone he knew would call him by. His old name left in the past. Radagast settled upon a tree in the forest where he lived for a very long amount of time, he learned a lot about animals and specifically on how to heal them.One day he was walking back from his house after collecting some plants from the nearby river when he saw a man heal a bird with a broken wing, the bird chirped and then the man began to shrink and then shift into the bird. It flew away into the sky, on that day forward Radagast wanted to learn magic and help the animals of the world.
