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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.

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