Lyre Or'Feo

Background: Lyre is from an elite family of assassins. Originally the Or'Feo family served the royal family, forced into subservience. After the royally family fell 100 years prior to Lyre's birth, the Or'Feo's were free, and became assassins for hire, amassing huge wealth, but their notoriety outside of the country fell. 

Lyre's mother Talia was from outside of the family, marrying in to gain status and hoped to become an Or'Feo family lich, a powerful undying creature with immense power and control over the family itself. Lyre's father was a failed bard who returned home and married in hopes it would overshadow his failures. Talia, in order to gain favor, decided to raise a child to be the perfect assassin and tool for the family. Her first child, Narcissa, was too ambitious and free thinking, and was deemed a 'failure'. Lyre was her second, and when he was evaluated at the age of 9 like most other children, he nearly passed and Talia nearly got what she desired. However, Lyre had mentioned his sister helped him train, and that was considered disloyal to the family and he was in need of 'work'. Talia retaliated by locking him in the basement for 3 years for training and punishment, only to be freed by his sister. He still wasn't allowed in the city until he was 18 year old, and due to trauma had forgotten most of his childhood before the age of 14. 

At 18 he fell in love with Ametrine Sigvard, ignorant to the fact the two were childhood friends. They started a relationship and became very close. Lyre's sister moved out of the city on her own, but because Lyre never heard from her, he had assumed his sister had abandoned him and became distraught, seeking comfort in Ametrine and skipping training. 

At 20 his mother became annoyed with his behavior and decided to test his loyalty to see if he would be of use to the family, and ordered him to kill Ametrine. Lyre panicked, especially given his trauma at the hands of his mother and emotional state after his sister left, and he escaped town in the dead of night without informing anyone Ametrine included. 

His mental troubles persisted and he attempted suicide at 21, only to be picked up by a healer who put him in the care of the treasure hunter and adventurer Juhan who employed him and watched over him. At 22 he joined an adventuring party.