Shin

Shin has had a long history, dispite his brief life.  Or rather this life.  His past, before his birth in this world was and will always be shrouded in mystery, the clues leading those that follow them down paths from which few return, and those who do regret the knowledge they saught.

Despite the ominous foreground to his life, Shin lead a happily complacent life as an apprentice to the Blacksmith of Alarian; the Capital of the Kingdom of Lucitania.  He was, as in all things, diligent and hard working, quickly becoming an adept and smithing.  He worked hard to honor his parents, who took up important political positions in the City, as ambassedors from the allied nation of the Thornbriar.

History will tell that nearly 16 years after Shin was born and brought to Alarian, the Empire of the Black Hand attacked and invaded the Capital, taking it in a single night.  Though there are many accounts, there are few that can describe the fear and horror that many of the city saw and felt that night.  Shin was just one such victim, his parents killed, his master slain; he ran, ran to the woods and there became a brigand with others like him.

He survived, with them, for a time, stealing and looting to survive as he slowly limped on day by day from the travesty of his family and beloved life.  Nothing would ever be the same, nor could it.

 Though rueful indeed, Fate was not yet done with Shin, as he was quite by chance taken as a slave and pet by the Emperess of the Black Hand.  It was this event that set him on the path he now follows, one of bitterness and vegeance.