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Grimskel was born to parents who lived within meager means.

His father, Skofi, was a ploughman. His mother was a housewife, who, as a child, was taught how to read and write. Grimskel was the only name he was given.

From a young age, he was taught the plowman’s trade by his father. His father produced a modicum of the food which fed the greater population of Markev. Growing up in the chill of Haense, Grimskel became acclimated to the hardiness of the region. His young muscles were developed under the stringent and demanding instruction of his father, who himself was quite trunkish by nature. Grimskel initially displayed a natural aptitude toward agriculture, but his talent was left untrained with the death of his father, which came early in Grimskel’s life. The days of working and playing rough games with his friends fell by the wayside, as he had to take up the mantle for provider to his mother.

His teenage years were an even split between meting out an impoverished subsistence, and staying at home with his mother. Taken with grief, Grimskel’s mother developed a tendency for illness, which by pure will she did not succumb to. This caring relationship drew them closer and closer, and the rash masculinity of Grimskel’s youth was tempered by his mother’s more patient affect. In keeping to the wilderness and caring for his mother, Grimskel developed capable skill at survival and rudimentary medicine. Nevertheless, despite his effort, his mother’s constitution was simply too weak. She died as he approached his seventeenth year.

With nothing holding him to it, he set out from his home. The death of his mother left a fundamental lack in his life; his heart was empty and his affect was dulled. Seeking a new drive, his wanderlust took him far and wide. Though he kept toward the safer areas he could go, he sought to see all that was within his capability to see. As of yet, he has not refound his purpose.

In his travels thus far, he’s become a practitioner of bushcraft, a journeyman with a blade, and has developed a penchant for patience and contemplation over brash action. He finds himself in the Kingdom of Hanseti-Ruska, determined to find some fulfillment for his plaguing emptiness.