Early Childhood

Farcis was born into a family of very wealthy and very powerful wizards, who valued magic and their reputation above all else. As he grew, Farcis’s parents began to realize that their son’s magic was incredibly weak, and feared that if this information leaked to the general public, their image would be tarnished beyond repair. After all, if their son had weak magic, what’s to say that their magical abilities aren’t the same? Would people accuse them of lying for all these years? Upon realizing their son’s unforgivable faults, Farcis’s parents kicked him out of the family home, and claimed that some horrible illness had taken him. Before he left, a now ten year-old Farcis managed to get his hands on a good amount of money, knowing that it would come in handy in the future. His parents made him leave at night, in order to prevent him from being seen by the other townsfolk. He didn’t know where he was going to go, and knew on some level that his parents expected him to simply die alone in the middle of nowhere. This thought alone is what kept him going. He was going to survive, if only to spite his family who disowned him for something he had no power over.

After Leaving Home

He wandered aimlessly for months, buying food when he found himself near a town, and making sure to ration the food he had. After all, he didn’t know where he was going or when he would next be in a place where he could get a meal. One day, while wading through the water in the center of a thick mangrove forest, Farcis stumbled into an elderly elf who was collecting the leaves from some of the mangroves. Obviously surprised to find a young child wandering around by himself, the elf invited Farcis into her home, where she cooked up a meal and asked where the young tiefling’s parents were. Upon explaining his situation, the elf, who Farcis soon learned was named Sionia, told Farcis that he was more than welcome to stay and live with her in her home, which was located in a small coastal village named Brineport.

As he grew older, Farcis learned how to hunt for fish and other local game from Sionia, who encouraged him to better hone his skills by joining the village group of huntsmen. Farcis improved his hunting incredibly quickly after joining the other hunters, and his weapon of choice became his longbow, which had been handed down to him by Sionia. His advanced hunting skills were noticed by Brineport’s equivalent to the Royal Guard, and Farcis was invited to join them. He happily accepted, and soon rose to a pretty significant position. His life was going good, great, even, and he would have been content to continue as he was, living a normal and stable life with Sionia.

That is, until he recieved a letter.