Egder is a halforc bard coming from the southern lands of Katapesh. He is a blade dancer and does a good job at entertaining his crowd with oratory, but always performs masked as not to scare the spectators.
Abandoned as a child, he was raised in a temple of Sarenrae. He was gratefull for the kind atmosphere and started to worship the Dawnflower. He also liked the swordplay in the temple, but prefered a bigger sword as the scimitars the priests were practising with. He joined the exercises with a falchion, a gift of one of the other halforcs residing in the temple. Because of his difficulties adapting the scimitar moves to those of the falchion, he was reprimanded often not to "dance" but to fight. Yet he started to take a liking to the strange movements and continued them. This got him out of the temple, but by the time he was out he managed to put up a show and managed to survive from the income of his masked performances.
An injury made his life difficult. When he accidently cut his leg while dancing ten years ago, he ran out of money rather quickly and he had to sell himself in slavery to avoid death from starvation. He sold himself to a Chelian Noble for ten years and was transported to Westcrown to entertain him, his family and their guests. Once his wound healed, he did a fine job at that. He impressed his master, Jontas Khollarix* and his family in such a way that they invited other noble family's to see him. Once, he was even allowed a performance in the Golden Palace*. This way, he was introduced to various Westcrown nobles. Jontas insisted he would remain masked tough, to put up the appearance he was human. He also had to make sure he hid his worship of Sarenrae, as he found her religion to be unaccepted in House Khollarix.
His ten years of slavery ended six months ago, but he didn't find the taste of freedom as good as he had imagined. He didn't dare to perform his blade dancing on the streets out of fear for Asmodeus' clergy, who would be able to recognise the similarity of his dance with the swordstyle of Sarenrae clerics. He also could not enjoy favours of the nobles he danced for since none would recognise him as a halforc. So he was on the lookout for a job when he met a local smith.
Casper Thareman*, a weaponsmith took Egder as an assistant, in exchange for a place to stay and a low wage. Egder agreed with it and took a room just above the Steelhouse*. While doing his job to the best of his capacities, he started looking for ways to change the current situation. He didn't consider leaving, as the city became a home after ten years and took more kind to halforcs as in his homeland. Casper learned of this, and brought him in touch with a group of citizens. When they made clear their intentions, Egder joined their fight for a free society.
*=see NPC and location description