The History and Background Scroll of Kirth Gersen

Childhood

I was born and brought up in a rather wealthy family in the small fortified hamlet of Stronghaven. It is located just a few kilometers south of Hyrios, the capital of the Rentlic Protectorate. Wealth is not all, and especially not wealth in connection to cumbersome politics. Therefore, I had to look to something to get inspiration and stimulation. My Father was quite often in Hyrios, and not staying in our mansion in Stronghaven except on special occasions.

Third son in a family of six sons and five sisters. In Hyrios society this means academic career. The life of each sibling is very well planned in advance in Hyrios. This has been established since before the Ascendancy. After the Ascendancy the old tradtionions of sibling-path is still enforced, more or less accepted by the new powers.

One of my best friends from my early time in Stronghaven was Bron Stroilthus, yes, a son of that Stroilthus; Grand Protector General of Rentlic. He and I shared many good mischiefs and pranks. We also shared the pure love of Truth and Knowledge.

Academic life

Since my sibling-path was clear from my birth, I entered the university at the normal age of sixteen. I studied diverse subjects, like the Philosophy of the Ascendancy, Oceanography, Biothaumaturgy, Language of Princes, and so forth. During my senior years I got more and more involved in the work of biothaumaturgy. Finally I was accepted as a junior fellow of the Biothaumaturgical Faculty of Hyrios University. At that time it was Lord Rastal Feng who was the faculty head.

At Hyrios University I worked in the Department of Borderline Biothaumaturgy. In that department we were dabbling in the hideous twilight-zone of Fallen beings. In biothaumaturgy a living being that is fallen is called a borderline being. The term fallen is the popularized notion for it.

Subversive life

My constant contact with young, bright, and knowledge-hungry people led me to think about alternatives. A question into what we were actually doing in the Borderline experiments, an objection to how we handled borderlined people in the examination rooms, all this led me into my subversive life. It dawned slowly to me that the department was being inflitrated by brave men and women who did not approve of our line of academic inquiry. Students and faculty alike.