Role

Chapter 2

Torzen's younger brother, Kalzen, who had followed the traditional path for
their family and become a wizard, was incensed. He had become the heir
apparent to their family due to Torzen's de-facto abdication, and yet the
family name he inherited was (in his opinion) being tarnished by Torzen's
association with a "crazed, lunatic gnome".

He went to confront Torzen one day, in his guard headquarters, and an
argument ensued. The wizard had gone into closed audience in Torzen's office,
and as tempers flared, he had fired off a fireball as a threat, which caught
Torzen offguard. Hearing their officers shout, two of his men burst in and
attempted to restrain Kalzen. But his temper was up and he reacted sharply,
burning them badly. Torzen was incensed, and beat his brother across the face
so severely as to break off his beak and blind him in one eye.

There was no death that day, but Torzen knew he could not maintain his
familial ties and pursue what he wished to pursue. He had come to believe
that the use of magic hindered the progress of civilized Thera, and gave
power to those who did not have proper seasoning to exercise such
responsibility. And so he left, forsook his family name to take up the name
Swiftwing, and looked to combine his love for campaigning with the desire to
abolish the dangerous and stunting force of magic.