Fermanagh

Francis was born as the second child of four, in the household of Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Ellen Leabhar. Michael Leabhar, Francis' father, was a devout and spiritual man. His spirituality encompassed more than that which was preached in Canonism, outside the walls of Providence where the family resided. As a man prone to believe what he'd heard, over time his beliefs became tangled with the faiths of passerby, such as the spirits of the wood and the worship of ancestors lost to time. A complicated faith of peasant superstition formed in the small home, and became the basis for Francis' spirituality throughout his childhood.

As is the case with many children, Francis' career path was forged in the interest of his father's, and Francis was chosen as the most skillful amongst his siblings in the family craft of bookbinding. From the age of thirteen, Francis spent many of his daylight hours in the stale air of a bindery shop, threading wood to vellum and slicing paper with a dull knife. Not that it was his misfortune, in the slightest. Francis found himself quite fond of the craft, and often thinks of ways to improve the art of bookbinding, in both physical and spiritual ways. Once he became of age, he left with the tools and small amount of money he'd accumulated and set out on the road, hoping to learn new techniques in the trade to one day open a shop of his own.