Cult

Cult or Cedric Uthar Lavender of Thelsamar, which is his real name, was born in a poor farmer family by the name of Paleface. The Palfaces who already had sent one of their daughters, Astibeth, to Paladin training, could not afford this child either and gave him away for adoption. It fell on Jabernock Paleface, Cults uncle to find a family who could raise their son. Jabernock, who is a notorious drinker sat Cult in a basket on the road and hide in the bushes, hoping that some travellers would pick him up. Now it happened that two adventurers who passed the basket with the baby had recently lost their child. They immediately fell in love with the little boy and to Jaberknocks great pleasure they took him under their wings. Well, they were Dwarfs, but Jabernock was an open-minded man and he had some moonshine waiting for him so he thought that the boy would be safe with the dwaven couple. The Dwarfs, Grobin Caskbelly and his wife, Hetra Lavender of Thelsamar were of noble dwarven blood and belonged to the inner circle of the explorer’s league. Both well educated idealists who believed in a strong alliance. They raised Cult with love and learned him everything they knew about history and archaeology. Cult turned out to have talents for storytelling and poetry he developed good manners and became a true noble man. Still he was never accepted in the dwarven community and to Caskbelly’s sorrow the explorers league could not offer him a position. Cult felt like an outcast and by the age of 13, Caskbelly took his adoptive soon and tracked down Cedrics parents in Elwynn. The Palefaces who now had a better economy thanks to their adventuring daughter were glad to see their son. With grief in his heart Caskbelly returned Cult to the humans, knowing that he would never be accepted in the dwarven world he hoped that Cult would make himself a future with his own kin. But this was to late, way to late. The other adolescents in Elwynn mocked Cults manners, his Dwarven dialect and his passion for poetry. To survive Cult learned how to hide, sneak and above all how to fight. Everyday he had to stand up for himself and who he was. The only true joy in his life was his harsh but warm sister Astibeth who always stood up for him. Astibeth who did not fit in the Palladin world had been recruited by MI:8 “The military intelligence” and she learned her brother some skills of the under world. Now MI:8 was a corrupted organisation lead by the evil leader Fence. Astibeth got in true troubles and disappeared, obviously dead. Cult who could not believe such a thing ran away from home and travelled to his Dwaven family who gave him the recourses to search for Astibeth. After 6 months Cult tracked her down in Descolace, wandering around talking to herself like a madman. What happened to Astibeth is lost in history, she only remembered fragments but Cult learnt that it had something to do with here involvement in MI:8. He swore that he would one day get to the bottom of things and revenge what they had done to his sister. Meanwhile the explorer’s league had started to found more and more compromising facts about the history of the alliance. Things started to get out of hand, people mumbled about the lack of true heroes, about source of evil being the elves and their Well of eternity who sundered the continents and created the maelstrom among other things. These events lead to the creation of the Explorer’s leagues special opts, the Troubadours. Lacking the skills to build an organisation like that themselves, the league turned to Caskbelly, who of course finally found a way to fit his son into the world of the dwarfes. The rest is history.