Nathaniel Becker is my name.

Born to a big family, of humans and half-elves, in a small village to a

duchy of a noble and fair lord. Father Nathan Becker was a baker, and a very good one, and the mother
Alinael was from the same village and is a good mother gentle and stern when needed. The elder sister,
Elanel is married and her husband Malendor Waldfluss, who has become an apprentice to my father
and is right now looking to inherit the business. A younger sister Briana is slowly becoming a woman.
Me, I was at first learning the ways of the baker apprenticing with the father, learning the trade. I was
always a bright child, learning quickly but very much carefree and unable to devote, always saying that I
would become a soldier and get rich in a war and come back and have large land of my own with the
castle and everything. Foolish dreams of a foolish child, dreaming of glory and riches abound.

The family has consisted of my human father and half-elven mother. My older sister is human, and the
younger one had inherited almost glowing eyes from the mother as well as slightly pointed ears. My
nature appears to be mostly human but has bright blue eyes and light brown hair that shades towards
orange.

When I was 16 my life changed, it was then when my magical talent started to emerge. To both my
parents and myself, this realization was a frightening thing to happen. Luckily after my parents asked for
advice from the village leader, has arranged to have me examined by the duke's court wizard Rayland
Martin. He had recommended me to attend the magic school claiming I had the potential to grow the
magic and become a useful member of the duchy and even offered to stipend my studies, in return I had
to serve as his apprentice for few years upon my return. Considering the price of schooling this was an
opportunity of a lifetime and my parents had agreed.

Upon learning about my apparent "power" I became the most famous and envied teenager of the village.
All the boys were jealous, while all the girls were smitten by "obviously my gracious good looks". For full
week while I was being prepared to be taken to the magic school, I spent most of this time capitalizing on
my new status. Girls both younger and older were interested in securing my hand in marriage, as being
the wizard's wife was a way out from being a villager's wife. During this time I had enjoyed the attention of
girls getting to second base with many girls, what could I say there was the opportunity and I took it.
However, a special place in my memory had my older sister's friend Nora, who I had a crush on, and
apparently, she found me quite charming, after learning about me becoming a wizard. She proceeded to
make love to me in secret in a barn during the last night of celebration, unfortunately for her despite living
one of my sexiest dreams. Only later realizing that she was hoping to bind me to her with a child, luckily I
learned later that she had married and had her first child 2 years later.

One day a carriage with court wizard, and few other boys. The trip to Mepniton, School of Arcane, had
taken 3 weeks and after getting into class there was a lot to learn.

With magics, I had a preference for elemental magics as well as divination and conjuration. One of the
first spells I had mastered is to conjure a familiar, a cat-shaped fey creature the same color of my hair and
eyes. I named him Muffin.

The school lasted for 4 years, during this time I had to learn a few things. How to deal with noble-born
children who had resented being sent to school, being magically talented as magic is not seen as
chivalrous or noble and most had lost their lines of position. While the few poor had actually shared my
enthusiasm as this was a way to get to riches. The noble-born students have used their higher upbringing
to bully the low-born. I had to endure the jibes and bulling, only getting in trouble once for getting in a fight
against a little noble shit that pushed me just a bit too far. After that, I learned how to handle the bullies
and made the only torture the continue reading and arcane practice with cantrips.

During the school, I used few opportunities to indulge my manhood in the nearby village using my magic
to impress a few local girls, learning a small spell that would prevent girls I sleep with to become
pregnant. Actually, when it comes to that spell I have to mention Pentandra Penny Cloudcroft, who was
one of the studious noble-born students from a long line of wizards, who was my age. Penny has taken to
studying magic and specializing in blue magic (sex magic). She had found my rustic upbringing novel and
has asked me to be her assistant to her studies. Being a hot-blooded man, I had agreed and we spent a
better part of my last two years "researching" to mutual delight.

In school, I had many teachers, friends, and rivals. However one day I had to graduate and was having to
return and complete my service to the court wizard Rayland Martin. Saying goodbye to Penny was hard,
but I had known that I was always just an assistant to her. And it was both passionate and platonic
goodbye.

Eventually, I had returned home, but only to say hello to family, learning about what happened in past
years. After that, I went to the duke's castle were my personal apprenticeship begun with the court mage.
I spent a full year there serving as an apprentice to the Rayland Martin. He became a really good mentor,
who took every opportunity to teach me about life duty, etiquette, etc. Slowly realizing that he was
preparing me for the possibility of becoming his replacement. Rayland Martin I had learned was also
common-born who had been sponsored by current dukes father and that he had earned his position
through hard work, loyalty, and blood.

Two peaceful years, of little trouble, have changed after one night during the winter when the second year
had ended. While going on a walk across town we were assaulted by armed men. Rayland had ordered
me to not fight but to go get reinforcement. The bandits had no desire to chase me, but I didn't run away
as quickly as the master would have wanted, so I was able to see them surrounding him and attacking
him. He had taken out several of them, but a brutish female with a heavy cloak and hood had driven her
sword through his chest, just as he was going to blast her next. Upon stabbing him she pulled the sword
out with a green tear-shaped gem in the crossguard and decapitated him. I had run faster right after that,
not being able to fight them and win, but with a plan to reach the closest guardhouse. After reporting
everything the guards had taken care of everything they could, but when they come back the only thing
they were able to do is to return the decapitated body, with green teardrop drawn in the paint on his
forehead.
Later the same day lord's seneschal had come to pick me up. Upon returning to the castle I was
considering my options. But it wasn't my call, the Duke Ludvig Eisenwald had summoned me to deliver
the report personally. I had bowed while still in shock. I delivered the report with as little emotion focusing
on all the details I was able to recall. He took the report in a serious tone, nodding his head slowly. I was
just about to declare my intent to seek justice and sware my loyalty to him, but he silenced me with a
sharp movement of his hand. He dismissed me and told me that I was no longer needed, to leave the
tower as I was no good to him as just a common-born apprentice. He had arranged for me to get a few
gold coins that would be enough to take me back to my hometown.

Just as I was about to pay for a carriage. I had sudden stealing of the heart. Instead of going back home, I
glared at a few coins that were left to me and I promised my self to seek my master's killer and bring her
to justice. All I had was the knowledge that green tear-shape, is a symbol of their organization, that the
killer was a brown-eyed blonde.