Mandraiv's Background

Mandraiv was conceived when a young noblewoman, the daughter of Commandant Marcus Thalassinus Endrin, feeling bored with her life, decided on an exotic tryst with one of Perishial Kalissreavil’s exotic, beautiful, unfamiliar and above all forbidden entourage.  Unfortunately, she became pregnant and her father’s honour-bound, traditional beliefs ensured that the pregnancy was kept hidden from society, and that her child be sent away as soon as it was born, growing up in a monastery to Iomedae, goddess of valour, rulership, justice and honour, in the mountains just south of Korvosa.

Struggling with the harsh discipline, not to mention the questionable honour and valour among his parents that led to his far from just handing over to a monastery for a poor, disciplined, fun-less childhood, Mandraiv fled the monastery on the 1^st of Neth in his 6^th year, tagging along with a merchant caravan until he arrived in Korvosa.  He immediately tried to find his parents, but was laughed away from access to the areas that might contain people who knew of him, and soon Mandraiv was starving.

The starving 6 year old proved to be irresistible to Gaedren Lamm, and Mandraiv soon found himself working running with the brutal boss’s gang of orphan pickpockets.  A couple of years after entering this life, young Mandraiv found a holy symbol to Nethys after robbing a priest and felt that the link with his fleeing his original unhappy life on the first of Nethys’s month was a clear and strong link, and soon found himself attending services and eventually living in the church, as he eventually managed to escape Gaedren by fleeing to the church which was happy to offer him sanctuary. 

In the church of Nethys, he was taught the basics of all things magical, and was fascinated by the Acadamae since first hearing about it.  With summoning seeming such a grand magical pursuit, the young man started studying in earnest, trying desperately to do all he could to win a place with the greatest summoners of the land.  Unfortunately, Mandraiv was not aware that without patronage, which was not within the capacity of Nethys’s very minor church in Korvosa to offer, he had an Ice Mephit’s chance in one of the toastier layers of the Abyss of getting into the prestigious school.  Determining then and there that he would show them all, Mandraiv set out on the path to become an adventuring summoner, figuring that taking advantage of his natural ability with summoning was the best way to prove the entire Acadamae wrong.

After a few more years of training with the church, Mandraiv gathered together his few belongings and set out to become the richest and most powerful summoner that the city had ever seen, and with a bit of luck find out who his parents might be along the way.