Edwain

Edwain[T]
Race	Human
Born	850 p.o.
Age	22 y.o.[A]
Status	Alive

Connections

Friends

• Reginald Brighton - First employer, and surrogate father figure.
• Eva Brighton - Daughter of Reginald Brighton, helped him create his mechanical arm.

Acquaintances

• Stewart O'Connely - gnomish mechanic that mentored Edwain for a time, teaching him in exchange for some free labor
• Logan McDowell - Contact that sourced him his first spellbook with a few common spells.
• Fergus MacGabhann - Nephew of Stewart, recent companion in a mercenary business venture.
• Mortimer Wylde - Fellow Magus. Trained him in use of the reaving strike, and taught him a couple of spells

History

Edwain lost his arm when raiding Reginald Brighton's workshop in search of things to sell. He was an orphan boy at the time, and often ran away from the orphanage to hang with the cool kids. His arm got stuck in a machine, crushing it beyond what simple potions could heal.

He would have died then if it were not for the young girl Eva, who heard his pleas for help, and administered the curative that stopped his bleeding.

Shortly thereafter her father, Reginald, barged in. He was fraught with a mix of concerns. Who was this boy, who's blood was this, and more.

To pay back the cost of the medicine his daughter had used, Reginald encouraged Edwain to work off his debt in his workshop. He did not think he would be much use beyond his relatively small hands and ability to hand him tools. But to his surprise, Edwain seemed to have a knack for solving engineering issues. He was in fact so impressed that he hired him on as a regular employee - at the rates of an unskilled laborer at first, to be sure, but it was a steady job.

As a reward for a full year of employment, Reginald gifted Edwain with his first replacement arm. It was a crude job, but served him well for the time.

The years passed and as he grew, regular adjustments needed to be made to the fit and size of the limb, and it so happened to be Eva who took this job. She was impacted by the sight of the boy who lost his arm in such a brutal way, but instead of letting it settle in her as a trauma, she turned it into motivation to help.

Their combined iterations on the design his arm has now made it close to, of not better than, the arm he would have had. Exotic alloys make up its exterior, with both of them in search of possible improvements.

As the years passed, Reginald reccomended that Edwain seek apprenticeship with Stewart O'Connely. The gnome had an impressive workshop, and specialized in smaller and more bespoke mechanisms. This, he argued, would force Edwain to put his skills to the test, and push his skills beyond what he could learn from him.

Stewart accepted, if a bit reluctantly, suffering from the stereotypical gnomish prejudice that humans live too short lives to make investing too much in their education a wasted effort. But as is also often the case, such gnomes are surprised by the ingenuity of the tall folk.

It is not fully known how it happened, but while working for Stewart, Edwain started to gain an passing understanding of the working of magic. Theories abound. Maybe he has a measure of the Wahlminster lineage stretching back to the Ashen Empire, some tie to the or bloodline of Brien, maybe he absorbed it from one of Stewart's experiments

With the aid of his old friend Logan McDowell, Stewart furnished Edwain with a spellbook containing some rudimentary cantrips, and plenty of blank pages.