Conrad Fire'spath

- Grumpy (Dain)

- Boring (Dain & Gain)

- Boss (Victor)

- Sir Knight (Laurie)

> "He is a bastard and not from being a noble."
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- Dain to Gain about Conrad

#### Early Life

Conrad grew up in House Fire'spath, on an estate within Axis, with his mother running the House as its steward. When Conrad turned 18, due to the complex laws of the Dragon Empire's noble inheritance, and House Fire'spath's traditions, Conrad took over from his mother and inherited the title of *Marquess of the Dragon Empire.*

Conrad soon set out to fight for the people of the Empire, protecting them from those who would harm them, beasts, monsters or bandits alike. After a year or two, he earnt the title of Imperial Knight, knighted by Olivia Barsorium herself in a knighting ceremony with a dozen other newly minted knights.

Growing up Conrad was regularly seen with 3 other friends of his; Victor, Dain & Gain. Today they can be regularly seen travelling the Empire today as knights on their various quests.

While travelling Conrad leaves the day to day running of the estate and House politics to his mother.

Conrad's father according to his mother, was a low-born solider of the Empire who died in a skirmish before he was even born.

#### Time as a Noble Knight

Conrad spends much of his time travelling outside of Axis, along with his childhood friends; Victor, Dain & Gain (the last two being infamous amongst nobility for their party boy lifestyle). They regularly travel the length of the Empire and involving themselves in the affairs of regular people. Helping them with building damns, or fighting the beasts plaguing the villages where they live.

Not long after being knighted, Conrad was informed by his mother about his true parentage of his father. This shocking reveal has driven Conrad in his desire to help the everyday person and to be a better person than he views his father to be.

#### Beginning of the Legacy Arc

While travelling with the *usual suspects* near Newport on their way to reinforce the Sea Wall from an unusually turbulent time of monsters rising out of the sea to try and threaten the land. Conrad and his cohorts ran into a party of five heading into New Port about a days travel away by foot.

In the party was an old man, with a broken leg, a female of young adulthood, two females in leather armour and a man in plate armour. Speaking with the man in armour, he told Conrad that he an his party were returning from Proudfort and had found the farmer and his daughter on the road and they were helping them to Newport where they hoped they could find a healer for the old farmer.

Speaking with them for a time, Conrad realised that the adventuring party may have connections to the Druids, and when he sensed something may have been amiss with the adventurers he tried to handle it carefully to avoid a diplomatic incident with the Druids. Offering to take the old man and his daughter off of the adventurers hands, they accepted. Not long down the road, Conrad began to question the old man when he began speaking about those three being bandits trying to steal his farm from him. Finding this old man's outburst to be slightly mad due to his conversation earlier. When Conrad questioned the farmers daughter, it turned out the old man' claims were true.

Leaving the old man and his daughter with Victor, Conrad rode with Dain and Gain to catch up to the three adventurers to question them properly of these accusations. Unfortunately for Conrad, by the time he got to them, they managed to just cross into the boarder of the Wild Wood. Not wanting to antagonise the Druids by intruding into their land, Conrad gave the order for the chase to cease.

## Appearances

* ???
* The Harrowing
* If Only
* Citizen Science
* Scavenger Hunt