Brief History & Background

Walpurgis was born to the sea. Almost literally, in fact. His mother was wading through the tides of Costa Del Sol, pregnant as can be, when she felt it. The story, as Walpurgis was taught, was that his mother's boat had been seized through mutiny and she was cast into the water. The vessel burned on the horizon, its flames taking it into the depths by sunset, never to be seen again. Though, it was only later that the boy pieced together that there was no mutiny, and there had been barely any crew on board. It was nothing more than the wrath of a spurned lover and her paramour's brigantine.Cili had raised her son in an ever entangling web of ships and harbors, never sticking to one place for more than a week or so. If she needed to jump ships, she'd jump ships, little Walpurgis in tow. Cili was hardy and found work as a security officer (read, mercenary), while Walpurgis grew up to be more fond of culture. Entranced by the ways sailors found creative outlets, Walpurgis followed in their steps and picked up the fiddle and various artistic pursuits—his favorite being crude sculptures made from things he found around the ship and shores.On Walpurgis’ fifteenth year, tucked aside in a corner on their employer's ship on a stormy night, Cili passed away. Death wasn't a stranger, but never had it been so close. Never had he seen the way the skin grew purple, how the once strong meat of his mama's arm then felt like it could be peeled off the bone. Sickness had robbed her of her glow, though Walpurgis would never truly know what took his mama or why Cili had worked herself to death despite it. All that was left to Walpurgis was a wooden box with a few trinkets, a bag of gil, and various letters clearly left for that exact moment--when she was gone and Walpurgis was not.First, a letter from their tribe—his mother's mother, as it were. It expressed grief in Cili's fleeing from Bur-Omisace and begged her to come back. Second, a letter from his father, speaking of debts and payments that he didn't understand, as well as his mama's crime of passion. Namely, however, he spoke of Walpurgis, and how he wanted to see him.(tbc)