Mercury Briarwood

Mercury grew up learning to watch his own back. He always found his way into trouble and always found his way out of it. Stealing money, food, causing trouble with local kids his age from every tier of the social ladder. But he was 14 when he learned that the fighting pit was his best bet for filling his belly. For as much scrapping as he'd gotten into, it turned out he had a knack for the kind of performance that you put on in the ring, not to mention that no matter how many blows were exchanged, there were always bonds to be made with his fellow fighters outside of it. Men that had sucker punched him not 30 minutes earlier were better brothers to him than the ones he had at home. There was also a respect given to him by the people who'd seen him fight, something that he never realized he loved. Attention that didn't make him anxious. It just made him want to do better every single time.

Until one fan, who he'll never forget. Around the time Mercury turned 18, he started getting offer for sponsors or guard positions or other types of jobs like that. There was one curious sponsor who was enticing for reasons Mercury can't quite recall, but he felt drawn to them. The sponsor was beautiful and much too high a class to be coming to fights like that, but it wouldn't be the first time he saw someone unexpected spectating the fighting pits. They wanted to give something to Mercury to enhance his talents, as they'd been intrigued by his talents. Having been through these before, he asked for some kind of down paymeent or incentive, and that was the last thing he remembered for hours, until waking up later that night from a fight that he must have lost. But it wasn't until his blood brothers told him that he didn't lose, he went in with his whip as usual, but something different happened. Magic happened.

Whatever that sponsor did, Mercury found himself embued with magic abilities that he'd never known. It terrified him, and left him with a million questions, but the mystery fan was nowhere to be found. Mercury can't quite recall what they looked like either. The whole thing felt like a dream. Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Now wandering with this newfound power, he finds himself drawn towards new adventures, since magic is kind of looked down upon in most rings anyhow. Mercury can only wonder what might happen when it comes time to pay his end of the bargain.