Krotazd the Myth-Keeper is a turbonerd, there's no way around that. A four-fingered scholar of history, specifically myths and legends of his home of Ores, Krotazd possesses a boundless enthusiasm for learning in any subject and a slightly mischevous streak, something that's only encouraged by his Eidolon, Lendreth the Enabler.
Background[]
From a young age, Krotazd showed remarkable interest in magic, always present whenever his mothers were practicing theirs. As soon as he was old enough, he began reading works about magic and attempting it for himself, usually less than successfully. It wasn't until his 16th birthday that Krotazd finally attempted Summoning and pulled his future best friend from the ether.
Krotazd took up working at the local library where he lived, maintaining and restoring old texts with Lendreth. While it was nothing remarkable, it allowed Kro to hone his skills and further learn things that not every four finger would be allowed to, given the size of the town he lived in. Due to this access to knowledge, Krotazd would eventually experiment with necromancy. With the help of a partially destroyed tome and Lendreth's usual brand of helpfulness, his experiment wound up seeming to work, only to go wrong, irreversibly turning the Precursor's hair, eyes, and markings white.
Roughly 21 years before the ritual, Krotazd unexpectedly had to step into the role of father for his newly-orphaned niece, Falgren the Inkstained. While an unexpected change in his story, Krotazd found himself rather enjoying the role of doting father, and quickly made his new daughter's happiness and success his goal. With Lendreth taking up the role of a second father to Falgren, Krotazd did whatever he could to ensure her a better life.
When Falgren's prodigious intellect caught the eye of the upper crust and she was brought to work the castle archives, Krotazd and Lendreth came with, arguing that separating her from her adoptive parents after she'd already lost her biological ones would be impossibly cruel. They were bought in as well, albeit with limited access, and Krotazd continued to raise and support his daughter even as his own health began to fail as a long-term side effect of that ill fated necromantic experiment so long ago.
Krotazd would eventually pass away roughly a year and a half before the ritual, leaving everything he owned to Falgren, including a spellbook he had spent the last several years making for her, as long as she promised to never stop learning and growing as he knew she could.
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