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Childhood

Elliot Brown's parents, poor dirt-farmers in the Myrken countryside, had three children, an eldest boy and two younger daughters. When the younger girl was two years old, his parents lost a fourth child due to an infant illness turning them off of the idea of having future children. Six years later Elliot was born. He was a mistake. That they had a third daughter a year after he was born showed that they were mistake prone more than anything.

Elliot was very much left to himself as a child. His parents and elder siblings were busy with the farm having had years to fall into routines without him. Mainly, he got in the way. He never got along with his younger sister who constantly had to compete with him for attention and almost always won. His mother parented through the use of old wive's tales which were meant to keep him on the straight and narrow. It worked to make him superstitious, not well behaved. Most of his childhood days were spent tagging along other, older children from other farms who tolerated him or trying to shake off clingy younger children who he could barely tolerate.

Knighthood

While Elliot isn't entirely sure how old he was when he ran way from home, it was somewhere around nine or ten. In 207, Myrken experienced its worst summer drought in ages and young Elliot, feeling himself a burden and with a few too many stories in his head ran away from home. He ran to the Chapter House of the newly immigrated Shepherd Knights of the Silver Staff where he was taken in and made a squire to a Sir Tyroc. Here he also worked whatever odd jobs he could to send money back to his family.

During the battle of Snowstill, Elliot was attached to the rear guard due to his youth. Before his eyes he watched his knights and fellow squires get cut down by the Ashfiend's undead forces. More horrifying by far was watching his fallen comrades rise up to join the enemy ranks as zombies. Not knowing what else to do, Elliot took a torch and rushed across the battlefield burning the bodies of the newly dead, a necessary act that would traumatize him for years to come.

Sir Tyroc died in the battle as did many of the other knights, leaving the Order severely depleted and with far more knights than squires. Elliot would continue to train as part of a common pool but he would spend less and less time at the chapter house over the next few years.

Niall

Also on the battlefield was a scarred, tattooed girl who did not seem much older than Elliot. This was Niall and the two soon began an unlikely friendship centered around their roles in the battle and a lack of having anyone else. She was an outsider to Myrken and to their society in general and he endeavored to teach her and help her find her place in a world that she did not make. When his Pa died of exertion in early 209, Niall came back with him for the funeral.

Elliot and Niall continued grow closer as friends, though not necessarily warmer, for the next year even as Elliot continued to train at the Chapter House. Then in spring of 210, in order to get leverage over her and make her more tractable, Glenn Burnie began to drug the shipments of the chocolate drink Niall was so fond of. She became more emotional and lighthearted. Around this time, she and Elliot, who often partook of the drink as well, started to wander around the forest and countryside. The combination of the drug and Niall's magic created for hallucinatory adventures where the pair faced off against giant shadow monsters and surreal magical beings. During this dreamlike time, Elliot also befriended Catch, looking to him as a wayward surrogate family member.

It was Catch who ultimately uncovered the problem with the chocolate, forcing Glenn to both remove it from circulation and pin the blame on Suede Roschen. Niall, now enraged and volatile, confronted the tailor but he managed to escape with his life. During their twisted adventures under the influence of the drug, Elliot had grown into something of a hedge squire, no longer living at the remnants of the Chapter House. He had also grown far closer to Niall, becoming fond of the emotional range she showed at the time and enjoying her presence in a world where every day was a fantastical adventure. With the end of the chocolate, she closed up again, becoming more hostile and angry and leaving him feeling increasingly lost.

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