Mafindel was exceptionally handsome, even among the high standards of the elves. When Lingol returned from his visit to the world beyond the Door and told of his pleasurable experience there, Mafindel lamented his turn at such a journey would not come for another 500 years, by which time everything in the human world would be different. Lingol consoled him by teaching him the love technique he had learned from the human Gaetan, so that Mafindel could have a piece of the world he was missing. Unbeknownst to them, Lingol gave Mafindel something else from the human world as well.