Page Turn is a Jackdaw Kenku that was born and raised in the Edificant Library in the Snowflake Mountains of Impresk by his mother, Mouse Peep, and father, Cork Pop. At the Edificant Library, Kenku were regularly taken advantage of for their low place in society and advanced forgery skills, usually employed as copiers by the library for extremely low pay and barely acceptable lower-class living conditions in the town that surrounded the Library, but it was considered a better deal than being homeless beggars like Kenku in other cities. 

Page Turn himself was employed at the Library as soon as he reached Kenku adulthood at 12 years old. Page Turn became addicted to the Knowledge he gained copying manuscripts and maps, soon he began borrowing them to copy the Knowledge to scraps of paper, or stealing copied versions he made for himself. 

When he reached 15, his younger brother, Ink Drip, became an adult and Page Turn did not have to help provide for the family any more. He left their small living quarters of Edificant and went in search of Knowledge and Magic, hoping to break the Kenku curse and regain Kenku's capacity for speech, flight, and creativity. 

Page Turn and Ink Drip care for each other dearly and often try to write when Page finds himself settled for a time in a city, studying their entire library catalog for the Secrets and Powers needed to break the Kenku Curse. The last Page Turn heard, his brother, now 15 himself, was working as a wine and spice smuggler in Nimpeth.