His family fought and fell before his eyes, as the underground peoples of Tamlact, sought to remove the evil presence from their homes. Th family advisor, 'Fardhel the black', took Conor under his wing determined to use the young boys strengths to help fight off the horrors.
Unter Fardhel's tutelage Conor learned all there was to know about the workings of apprentice Nethermancy. And by Fardhels side he fought off the evil. His logic, was that one must work with evil and manipulate its strengths, in order to destroy it. One must think like an evil being - become evil - in order to conquer it.
| As Conor slept one night, in the study next to Fardhels workshop, Something came into the room. The presence just passed by him, like a fog blowing away in the morning breeze. He stared in dismay, paralysed with fear, as the presence took Fardhels life, then took his body. In a fight that nearly cost him his life, Conor battled with Fardhels corpse, fleeing after recieving near fatal wounds. He crawled out of the Kaer, knowing that the presence would soon take over the populace that his family had defended for all those years. |  |
As if he were hunting darkness, he found it right before him only ten days later. As he gathered wild berries in a nearby grove, he was lept upon by several fully grown men. They dragged him into a wagon lined with bars, as if he were an animal. Later he was to learn that these were the treacherous Therans.
A week later, as the Therans lay camp, Conor traced a pattern he had learned from his master, to summon a spirit made of mist. Using this spirit, he escaped his slave destiny, and aided the mighty 'Brun of the flaming horns raiderclan', and his shifty companions'Jarra' and 'Harrigan', to take revenge upon the Theran slavers.
