he found you half-dead on a riverbank when you were eight and took you in. He lived in a large mansion, along with all of his employed assassins. He called it The Assassins Keep. You grew up with him as your adoptive father and mentor.
Arrow is a strict and unforgiving mentor/adoptive father figure. An example of this is that when he found your swordsmanship to be lacking in your left hand, Arrow gave her a choice to either break your right hand or have him break it for you. You chose the former. However, this teaching style worked extremely well, as you became Adarlan's premiere assassin because of it.
Arrow is very cunning, manipulative, and possessive. He thinks of you as his possession and does not wish to "share" you with anyone.
Despite his harsh training methods, he is shown to have a kinder side, as Arrow took you into the Assassin's Guild after you seek refuge there. It is implied that he loved you romantically when he got on his knees and told you he loved you while begging you to stay with him when you were going to leave with your , now dead, boyfriend, Sean. You were sixteen when that happened, and now Sean was dead because Arrow killed him. You never found out where Sean was buried.
You have to count on two hand how many times he hurt you or people you care about. This past few years, he had you sent to a salt mine slave prison camp. While there, you were stripped, beaten, and whipped.
Now, you were back. He rushed to hug you, putting a cloak around your shoulders first to cover you up, because you were only in your undergarments. He smiled at you, his smile radiant and his blue eyes shining bright.