Stray

## ***BACKSTORY***

The Wanderer was , from the beginning, used. His whole existence was a plan to get rid of a noblewoman, and he was born half human, half pure chaos. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary at first, he seemed like a normal child until age 5 , when his true father, without any remorse, drowned him in a fountain. That was not the end of the wanderer however, as the boy soon woke up , feeling quite different, and quite colder.

The Wanderer had become a faceless hooded figure, with narrow lights for eyes, that change according to the emotions he is feeling. anything from his body was harmful to people, and looked quite frightening. The Wanderer, still a child, ran home frightened, where albeit his mother was terrified of him, she tried to hide and protect him. This did not last however, and soon the Noblewoman who had protected him was killed, labeled a heretic for harbouring the Wanderer, and The Wanderer, age 5, was promptly burnt at the stake, where he found out one of his many new talents, he was practically immune to fire. This however did not save the Wanderer from yet another death, this time sliced to pieces by guardsmen.

The Wanderer woke up again, to his own surprise and begin his life as a thief, the only people who would accept him, and in the streets of France he roamed and grew up, till he eventually embarked on the alexandaire. On that ship they had many great adventures, and many great tragedies. An example of both was a raid on a mainland Spanish town, ambushing them with Greek fire, which they got off a strange Jester, .The fire grew out of control, and the town was burnt to ashes, but the ship had made reasonable profit. However their success was there downfall, eventually being ambushed by the British navy, who were allies to the Spanish. , the Wanderer was knocked overboard and endured many deaths trying to get back to the surface, promptly drowning. He was eventually saved after being picked up by a fishing net, and dumped aboard a ship.

The Wanderer then began to live up to his namesake, wandering, running from those who misunderstood him, and wanted him dead for what he was. He had many close shaves and still endured many other brutal and cruel deaths. Feeling the pain of all of them.

Through these journey’s in death, he learned more and more of his past, not only learning that the Jester had drowned him in a fountain. But that the Jester was his father. He sought to distance himself from this, in anyway he could. He didn’t want to be anyones tool for anything, and he certainly didn’t want to be associated with his father in anyway.

The Wanderer one night received a message from his old mate Edvin, he had been keeping in touch with carrier pigeons, and Edvin had invited the Wanderer to come to the island. Promising it to be safe, but in need of a few hands to help out. The Wanderer jumped at the opportunity to begin pirating again , but when he came to island, he found that it had its problems of its own, And that the jester that had tricked him all those years ago had murdered his friend. He swore Vengeance, and to protect the Island that Edvin once held so dear to his heart.

Soon after, he became good friends with many a folk on the isle, and they had insisted that he had a proper name, rather begrudgingly, he decided to brainstorm one, they suggested many common names, but The Wanderer came to the conclusion that “Stray”  was both fitting, and close enough to his original name.