Keldyn is the eighth son of a minor merchant family of Denovar. Largely ignored by his father, Keldyn squirrelled himself away in the family library, dedicating himself to study. As he came of age, Keldyn was granted an apprenticeship with a powerful illusionist. Keldyn was an extremely dedicated and promising student.

Keldyn found himself awakening in his master's study, naked, clutching his master's orb. Everything around him destroyed and dark voices whispering in his head. His fellow apprentice was slumped at the foot of the stairs, drooling mindlessly.

The voices in his head built to a cresendo, screaming to him to run. He grabbed what he could and fled.

Keldyn had no memory of the last week before he left, and no idea what had happened other than occasional flashes of inintelligible dark text and a figure draped in shadow. Keldyn has been on the move for six months now, getting by with occasional work as an entertainer with minor illusions. Whenever he feels he is ready to settle somewhere, the voices build in his head again and urge him to move on.