Ulaphel was the twin-sister of Ucin, and the daughter of the Hildo-bard Sinuphel and the dwarf-lord Khazí.She, like her twin-brother, one of the first of the Umli or "half-dwarves".Ulaphel bore a hildo-name, for she was born in Hildorien and was initially thought to be the offspring of Sinuphel´s husband, Lord Cintapher. Because Sinuphel had been cursed by Morgoth, however she was the bastard-child of a mannish mother and a dwarven father. So, during he initial weeks of her hard life, she and her brother were kept secluded.A nurse unveiled Sinuphel´s secret when she was only three months old. Driven from Hildorien Sinuphel took her Children northward, where she encountered the mysterious Lossoth or snow-men (aka Forodwaith or northern men), She settled among the nomadic northerners and beg