Ok, how’s this for a background – pulling the old amnesia trick. I don’t have my books at work so I’ll fill in any missing names when I get home:
Shadow’s current life starts on the Day of Mourning, when he awoke literally five feet beyond the border of the (whatever the wall of fog is called that surrounds the Mournland is called). Remembering virtually nothing of his life up to that point, he had only vague hints of recollection of the past few years. He knew he was trained to operate in stealth and in darkness, and that Sharn was home. Beyond that, there was nothing. Nothing except for one particularly puzzling fact – he was now infused with magic that he was certain he did not possess before he woke up.
Traveling back to Sharn, Shadow began to attempt to piece his life back together and master his magical abilities. In speaking with House Cannith, all Shadow was able to learn was that he was forged about a year before the Mourning as part of a special Brelandish infiltration unit and trained to strike from within enemy strongholds and bases of operation. He assumes he was in transit either to or from Cyre on a mission when the Mourning occurred, but when he returned to his unit in Breland’s army (he obtained this info from House Cannith) and began to ask for information about his assignment that day, his superiors became very evasive. Further, when he revealed his new found powers, the army confirmed that he had displayed no such powers previously, and were very hesitant about continuing to use a ‘forged so deeply and obviously affected by the Mourning. After all, what might the effects of such a contamination? Surely he could not be trusted to continue to carry out his missions. They were not sure exactly what to do with him because of his condition and as a result generally left him alone to fend for himself, although he technically remained part of the armed forces until Thronehold free all of the forged.
Shadow has spent every moment since returning to Sharn trying to recover the memories of his old life. He has devoted many hours trying to master this new found magic (as far as he can tell, no one he has asked can remember this type of magic ever being practiced before) He is also particularly interested in discovering what the nature of the mission was that fateful day. He struggles to contain a growing resentment towards the government of Breland, and indeed all of the living in general, over their stonewalling when he requests information about his former life. All he wants to know is who he was – that can’t be too much to ask, right? Having generally grown disgusted by the city around him, he gladly responded to the summons he recently received. He looked forward to working with other warforged, and escaping those around him with whom he has become so frustrated.
Should be interesting!
