Ayre'lathl was born within The Holy Orenian Empire to an unusual wandering troupe of a bard and a skilled storyteller and lived with such a life style of traveling and theatrics for coin all the way into the beginning ages of adulthood. Through the course of Ayres upbringing the young elf developed just an amateur level of skill with a few stringed instruments, only enough to take on a minor role in assisting the trade. At age 16 this way of life would be thoroughly and permanently disrupted when the familial party sought passage on a vessel departing from Elvenesse for the dwarven city of Urguan.
All of this was fine and normal aside from one tiny detail. Ayre never boarded this vessel, after expressing a desire for independence, it was granted without hesitation. In reality the rest of their little troupe must have traveled much further east than simply Urguan, as from this point the paths of this party would not cross and the young mali'kir took a liking to Elvenesse and its peoples, choosing to remain there for a time from this point forward. The remaining two years of the elf's childhood would form Ayre into a passable bard, if not a particularly skilled one, scraping together just enough for the next to years for food, lodging and the occasional hour with a passing swordmaster.
