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ORIGIN
Roman was born beyond the borders of Rathnir, the name of his homeland is unknown but from what memories he still has from his childhood, he knows that his parents were the founders of a small coastal settlement with stone walls, a small keep, gardens, wooden houses, and a dock. The Settlement was completely independent from the nations that ruled the lands around his home, and there was only peace, young Roman was happy there. He also remembers sailing across the bay with his parents to visit a huge city with many people and huge buildings, with bustling ports and large ships, he remembers that this city was the capitol of one of the largest and oldest nations on the continent. During his early teenage years Roman learned much from his parents, trade, navigation, sailing, fishing, basic construction/engineering, farming, and some minor alchemy.

As he grew older times got harder in the wider world around him, as a young teen a deadly disease began to ravage the region and resources became more scarce due to overpopulation. Soon the nations around their home waged bloody and endless wars with each other, fighting to claim what resources and unclaimed land there still was. Disease, violence, and poverty gripped the lands as trade disappeared and Roman's home settlement became completely isolated from the rest of the region. Eventually disease arrived to the peaceful port town, and all livestock, along with most of the people died, including Roman's parents. Roman had no choice but to abandon his home and set sail to try and escape the devastation he found everywhere around him.

For years Roman traveled over both sea and land, looking for civilization and other people, all he found was ruins, ghost towns, and abandoned monuments to long gone nations. To get by Roman scavenged the ruins he found, continuing his journey until all evidence of human settlement was gone. Years past and it was just Roman alone in the wilderness, hunting and gathering to stay alive, never staying in one area for very long. Along the way he would stumble across empty structures not built by humans, each one full of secrets and histories that Roman could not decipher. While exploring one of these solitary monuments, Roman uncovered an ancient map, a map that would eventually lead him into a land, that he eventually discovered is called Rathnir.