Fenwick Brom Chaucer

Basic Information

Name: Fenwick Brom Chaucer
Player: Tony
Age: 19
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 180
Race: Sylvain Nephilim
Class: Mystic Summoner
Quirks:
Likes: Music - Playing & Listening, Reading, Storytelling
Dislikes: The Church - Especially the Inquisition, Being Rushed or Hurried
Fenwick Brom Chaucer: Character Sheet

Background

Fenwick was born a child of passion, not of marriage. His young mother was an 18 year old human with The Gift, and a resident of Archangel in Abel, though not a member of the nobility her family lived a comfortable life. His father was Sylvain, though not blessed with The Gift of magic he as a powerful summoner, from no place in particular as he was a wandering bard who traveled the continent. They spent only one night together, and it was years before his father even knew that he existed, which made it hard for his young mother to care for him. His father would make it to the capital sporadically, usually several years between visits, his mother tracked him down during one of these visits so that he would know of his son at least. After that his father always visited when he was in town, though he never lingered nor made an effort to make those visits any more frequent. When Fenwick was ten, his mother and a member of the bourgeoisie of Abel fell in love and got married. His new step-father was never cruel or abusive, but was always distant and cold to him, drawing his mother away from him. Before long her mother was pregnant, his step father was pleased, and his mother had continually less time and energy to give to him. Tragically, his mother died in childbirth as did the child. After that his step-father did turn cruel towards Fenwick, and rather than stay in the abused home, Fenwick began living on the streets of Archangel.

Fortunately for Fenwick, it was a matter of months, not years, before his father returned to the city. When his father discovered that Fenwick's mother had perished, he searched the city for his son until he found him, saving him from starving or otherwise being killed on the streets. Though Fenwick was resentful towards his father for never being around, he was in no position to refuse and began to reluctantly travel with his father. They left Archangel almost immediately, the first time Fenwick had ever left the city, but stayed within the country of Abel for some time while Fenwick acclimated to life as a traveling bard and living with his nomadic father. Always curious and eager to learn, Fenwick began to study under his father, learning to become a bard himself and eventually discovering his father's summoning abilities, that too he sought to learn. He was young, be talented in both disciplines.

As Fenwick grew older, he became more skilled and more comfortable so his father hatched a plan for both of them to travel to Alberia where they would respected and better paid for their musical talents. The going was slow, they didn't have the money to purchase transportation so they traveled from city to town, town to village on foot, staying long enough to gather supplies so they could make it to their next stop. Their path took them west, to the country of Arlan where they planned to purchase passage by ship to Alberia. Unfortunately, they were low on funds and ships to Alberia were rare, making them all the more expensive when they did come to port. After spending some time in Arlan, trying to gather their resources they settled for ship to Galgados, figuring half way there was better than nothing.

Finding work in Galgados was a challenge, it is a sparsely populated and hard country, so they needed to travel about to find work until they could secure a ship to Alberia. While traveling the dangerous countryside the pair was attacked by wild creatures, and Fenwick's father had to call upon his summoning to save them. This was not an overall uncommon event, however this time it was within sight of a large mine, and word spread from those miners of heretic powers and reached the ears of The Inquisition. Fortune is likely the only reason Fenwick wasn't killed along with his father who was performing alone when The Inquisition found him, took him to the town square, and hung him without trial in the dark of night to be discovered by the townspeople and his son the next morning. Fenwick was devastated and lost, for a time he sulked in Galgados and did little of anything. With no other direction he decided he would complete the quest he and his father set out on years before, forced to sell most of his and his father's belongings as well as their savings to buy passage just for himself to Alberia.

Fenwick finally arrived at the northern coast of Alberia, at a small logging camp that traded lumber to the ship building countries to the south. He realized that the country would never live up to the tales his father had told about it, nor be worth the sacrifices he'd made along the road to reach it, but hoped that it would at least be a new beginning. Other than his traveling gear that hadn't been pawned for passage, he retained his father's Rebec (a medieval violin that can be played under the chin or on the arm) and several books of his mothers that had served as his only real tutelage in magic up to this point.