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Tarkin Rensus Tarkin Rensus was born to a loving family, his mother was a Tailor that worked in her family owned shop named Dragon's Heartstrings. His father was a retired Knight of Damthril, he had complications involving his side of the family and decided to move in with Tarkus' Mother, his name was Braccus Rensus. Tarkin and his parents lived happily in Heden for 14 years before Queen Lunaris and her hoard began laying siege to the kingdom of Damthril, at this time Tarkin's father Braccus received a call to arms, many retired Knights from across the realm were summoned back to fight for what used to be their home. Braccus being the honorable man that he was left Tarkin and his mother back in Heden, but swore he would return one day. Two years later Tarkin's mother came down with a fever and was bedridden for quite some time. Tarkin was forced not only to run the shop and keep up with the household chores, but seeing as it was only Tarkin, brigands from across the town. Men would come in demand protection money, break a few things, or steal whatever they could make a profit off of. It was one week before the war ended when Tarkin's mother died of her illness. He buried the body near the edge of town and made the headstone himself. When his father returned home a month later and saw that his wife was gone and the shop all but destroyed he fell into the drink. Tarkin and him had a funeral service for Tarkin's mother and tried to restore what was left of the shop. After an incident where the bandits tried to come back and Braccus killed half of them we stopped having problems out of the thugs in the town. His father while drunk started teaching Tarkin how to fight with the blade, but only the basics of how to train not really showing him to properly kill his opponent. It wasn't long before Braccus got to drunk to really make sense of things anymore, he would go on about stories from his time in the recent war, the horrors of what he saw, and how soldiering isn't a life for anyone with any sense. He talked a lot about how good men shouldn't be killing each other and how good men need to leave the world a little better than when they came into it, speeches about good and evil and how the two don't make much sense and how a man can only judge what's right by himself. One day this stressful but homely life came to an end when Braccus grabbed a rusty blade he used in the war and declared that the dragon that keep the people of Heden afraid and the Gods haven't done anything to help with that situation, he said that men need to take care of their own problems and the world isn't a place where the gods can always be relied on. Tarkin never saw his father again, after scavenging through his dad's possessions he found a nigh pristine sword covered by a cloth hidden in a chest under his father's bed, with a note that said that it was a family heirloom that he meant to pass on to Tarkin one day. It was then when Tarkin knew what he would have to do, he gathered up what money could be had bout himself some traveling clothes and rations, and left the shop to travel to the Fortune Well in the magical forest to wish for a way to defeat the dragon of Heden. But before that he knew he would have to head to the mage's college Gama in order to find a way to keep himself from being influenced or corrupted by the magic of the forest.