I was born in a small town of Aluvia as a peasant farmer. I helped my parents with the farm and with raising the animals. It was a simple, but happy life...until...

One day I was out in the field, helping my father plant seeds for the coming crop, when all of a sudden I looked up and saw a blinding purple light encase me. I screamed, though I could hear no sound come from me. In just a few seconds, however, as fast as it came upon me, the light was gone. Little did I know that those few seconds had changed my life forever.

When I came out of the light, I found myself in completely new surroundings. Where before I had been on a farm, now there was grass and trees for as far as the eye could see. I found myself thinking of the beauty of my new surrounding...until a huge insect-looking beast stood in front of me, so tall it blocked out the sun. Before I even had time to scream, the creature knocked me unconcious and took me to my new home.

When I awoke, I saw many other humans around me, tending to the bump on my head. I asked them where I was, and they told me the story of Asheron, and how the monsters had taken over Dereth, and how I was now a slave of the Olthoi. I do not know how long it was that I was in those dungeons...probably only years, though it felt like centuries. My duties were to care for the larvae in the nest, making sure they were kept healthy so they would become great and powerful Olthoi.

Though plans of escape were always on my mind, watching friend after friend try to escape and then be slaughtered made me stay in the hell I had come to know. That is, until the day Cragstone, Elysa, and their band happened upon us. They slaughtered our Olthoi captors and led us out into the sunlight, which most of us hadn't seen since our arrival in Dereth.

They then told us of their experiences, and asked us if we wanted to help them in their quest to free all humans and rid Dereth of the Olthoi. We all, of course, agreed.

Though I wanted to get out there and fight as much as anyone, I was still just a child of only 14 years, and therefore needed training before I was allowed into battle. I was introduced to an Archmage named Den Ou, who was to become my mentor, and friend. Though she tried to teach me in all the ways of magic, I was only interested in causing as much damage possible to those wretched creatures, and therefore only paid attention to her lessons in war magic.

I see now what a mistake that was and I am working to learn different schools of magic in order to fix it. She taught me well in war magic, and others of the fighters taught me quickness, endurance, battle strategies, how to use a daggar, and weaknesses of the monsters.

One day, at last, I was ready to fight...and it came just in time. My first time in battle was the attack on the Queen Olthoi...and it is a day I remember with happiness and sorrow.

Because I was small and quick, I was able to hide behind things and cast spells from there, and then run. It was because of that I managed to survive and run down into the tunnels along with the bravest warriors. We killed every Olthoi we came across, and helped in bringing down the nobles that guarded the queen.

We didn't do it quickly enough though, and I turned just in time to see our great leader and friend, Cragstone, impaled by the queen's claws. We watched as Elysa quickly shot her arrow through the eye of the queen, killing it and avenging Cragstone, but though we were all thrilled that the human liberation had finally been won, we found it hard to celebrate.

After the victory, the massive army, and all the humans liberated started to spread out and create small towns all over Dereth. Though we had defeated the Olthoi, monsters still lurked about, and to defeat them, we were going to need places where warriors could rest and talk to one another as well as buy weapons and supplies. And so the cities of Dereth were born.

I decided that I needed to go with the group that was settling right near the dungeon where I was enslaved for so long - a town now known as Lytelthorpe. I felt it was something I needed to do to help me gain the confidence to go out and fight. Archmage Den Ou, however, with her expertise, was needed to go with the group heading south to current day Yanshi. It was a tearful goodbye, and I sent letter after letter to her begging her to come to Lytelthorpe. Finally, after Yanshi was totally settled and she felt she could safely leave, she rejoined me in Lytelthorpe and helped me in learning new spells.

After Lytelthorpe was up and running, I decided to venture out on my own, killing the monsters of Dereth. Battle was still a new thing to me at that point, but I learned well, and fast. Those were some of the lonliest days of my life, but I was happy to finally be doing something to help rid Dereth of the monsters that had antagonized me for so long.

One night in a dream, however, something amazing happened to me. Cragstone came to me and told me that I had learned much in my days with his great army. He told me also that people were still being portaled from their homes and into Dereth, many knowing very little in how to survive in this dangerous place. He told me that since I was lucky enough to have such wonderful training from Den Ou and others, that it was my duty to help those who were arriving in Dereth, poor and confuzed.

I awoke the next morning with a newfound ache to seek out those in need and help them become strong warriors. I now wanted to make a large family of fighters, strong enough to defeat the Olthoi, should another queen surface, and to rid Dereth of the monsters that were still here. And so I venture on, ridding Dereth of evil, and training up and coming mages and warriors in the process. It may not be the simple, happy life of the farm I once knew, but I now know what my quest in life is, and I intend to complete it.