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Aldred was born in a small Savoyard town to a tailor and the daughter of a merchant. Illness nearly took his life as a child, leaving him with a somewhat sickly disposition that he still has to this day. Tragedy struck when he was six years old, when his mother died giving birth to a stillborn child. His father took to drink, leading to the loss of his shop and his eventual murder after being caught cheating at cards when Aldred was 10. Now orphaned, Aldred moved into an orphanage ran by the Church of the Canon. While certainly not luxurious, compared to the last four years it was a veritable paradise. While there, Aldred learned to read and write and grew fond of books about military conflict and history, though not for the stories of great knights and heroes. What caught his eye were the strategies and politics behind the scenes. Applying tactics he got from books, he would regularly best the other children at the orphanage in games of strategy. Throughout his time there, he was highly conflict-averse, avoiding fights between children and rarely playing physical games. He took as his personal motto "The hero who fights a losing battle may die in glory, but the man who runs lives long enough to win the war". Aldred left the orphanage when he came of age, making for the city of San Luciano to both further his education and find work. Due to his aversion to physical combat, he naturally developed an interest in magic, though he fails to grasp any of the fundamentals of it at present.