Backstory

Summarised Backstory

(See individual characters for their in-depth backstories]

Morthos the Tiefling and Drex the Aasimar - two very different looking beings making an unusual friendship - grew up on the streets of Pacadon, leading a life of petty crime and joining a guild called “The Black Hand”. After refusing to do something unsavoury for the guild, the pair were black-listed and being hunted by a particularly vicious guild enforcer - Grim Halfaxe. Cornered, Drex called out for help, and was answered by a fiend, who gave Drex power in return for entering into a pact. Knowing that life would only get more tricky for them in Pacadon, the two decided to flee not just the city, but the continent.

Meanwhile, our other hero, Cormir De’Glast had had a more civilised upbringing, and hoping to follow in the footsteps of his well known father, General Fabian De’Glast, joined the Iron Legion. Rising through the ranks to a Junior Lieutenant, he found himself one day tasked to provide escort duty for a couple of Trades Guild leaders - Ernest Johanus of the Silver Syndicate and Olly Stanchion of the Jade Group. Unusually, half his squad was chosen for him by his superior, a Captain Mac Hayden, and they turned out to be traitors, as at an obviously predetermined signal from Ernest Johanus, they turned on their companions. Witnessing Ernest killing Olly Stanchion himself, and marking the body as if a victim of the notorious Black Hand assassin himself, Cormir managed to escape and jumped on a ship to flee the city.

Coincidentally, it was the same ship that Morthos and Drex had jumped on.

During the long voyage, the three met and became friends - all having a linked connection - a desire to flee Pacedon and some sort of connection to the Black Hand.