I know, the background was just a joke.
Sorry Thaven.
As a kid, Cort always had a problem with bullies. Not that he was picked on or anything, but he couldn't really take watching the bigger kids beat up the little ones. Naturally, he did what any kid with a sorcerous bloodline would do - fight back. He went around the streets of his hometown protecting the smaller kids from the bigger, more aggressive ones with his charismatic presence and fearsome sorcery. As he became an adult, all he saw were more bullies: the gangsters who extorted protection money, the corrupt politicians, and the lord of the Evil Empire over there.
He dedicated himself to ending the threat posed by Malacarus with a hatred bordering on the irrational. To the servants of Mal, he became known as the icy winds of death. He even battled the necromancer to a stalemate several times, with the help of the Broken Eagles.
Now he is going to find these new bullies which are threatening this world, and see if he can put some squids...on ice.