Farruco was born on Axios, into a band of travelling merchants. They had stopped at a nearby city for the child's arrival, of course, but they did not stop indefinitely - very early on in his childhood, Farruco was already travelling.
As he grew up, Farruco began to learn the skills he would need to become a travelling merchant. He was not trained in combat, because that was seen as not only unnecessary but encouraging murder, which the rather 'progressive' merchants found abhorrent. Instead, they hired guards to escort them on particularly perilous roads. Farruco learned from his parents some of the crafts that he could sell on his travels - how to make dreamcatchers, totems and other trinkets, how to brew teas and create herbal mixtures for healing. They even taught him how to identify and pick those herbs himself, in the forests, though he rarely does this now and instead prefers to buy them from local shops. Unfortunately, he and his little caravan of merchants were forced to flee Axios, and after a while, the majority of them reformed into that same caravan in Atlas.
Since then, Farruco has progressed, made friends and enemies, and left his caravan behind. Unfortunately, many of that original number died of age or disease, leaving Farruco one of the few alive to this day. He begins to grow old, but still he insists that a life spent in one place is no life at all. So, instead, he travels, as before.
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