Ioannum was born in Kingdom of Norland. His small villiage was often raided by snow marauders, so his father died when Ioannum was just 6 years old. At the age of 10 Ioannum and other survivors tryed to fled to Ruriksgrad, escapeing snow marauders wrath. But in the middle of snow desert group of snow marauders reach the caravan and ravage all of the villiagers. All exept for Ioannum. Small and scared Io wandered snow wasteland untill he was found by herbalist. Herbalist decided to take Io with him, and made him his apprentice. Herbalist took him to Persa de Madera and start teaching him about herbs. Ionnum diligently worked in the shop, but the dream of becoming a knight did not leave him and pursued so stronglly that when he was lying in his little home, he invented another life in which he was a knight, and not just a knight, but the strongest among the warriors of Madera.
When Io turned 20 his master was killed in mines of dwarfs, where he tryed to find rare underground leaf. Ioannum was depressed, but as the only assistant of the old man, he were given some of herbalists gold. For a long time, Iohnum could not find a new place for himself, working here and there. The guy get addicted to alcohol, and the story of the great knight in his own eyes was no longer so deceitful, only now no one believed in it, although Io continued to pour it into the ears of the listeners in the taverns.
