Growing up in Vudra, the fourth son of wealthy caste nobles, Ajerviskanis spent his days in privilege and comfort, educated, cared for and wanting for nothing. When he grew of age, he married a beautiful Tian woman, Kasuri, daughter of a diplomat from Minkai. She bore him a son a few years later, and the three lived comfortably until Ajerviskanis' thirtieth birthday. When Kasuri slowly
wasted away before him, aging rapidly, inexplicably, and dying slowly, Ajerviskanis began to display strange powers. Such suffering he had never seen, nor known, in his privileged life, that the abilities were repressed. As his wife faded from life, so did his vision, such was his grief, he thought. Distraught, nearly blind, and terrified of the death he knew would find him soon, he abandoned his son, his brothers,
and his wealth, and left Vudra. He nearly died himself, unable to cope with the world as it was.
Rescued by a monk from the Monastery of the Open Palm, he eventually joined their order, and was taught discipline, defense, and began to study and understand the abilities that had manifested as his wife had died. He meditated for long hours on suffering, life, death, time.
Years passed.
Growing restless, and feeling that his understanding of the world would not grow through further, Ajerviskanis bid farewell to his brothers and struck out east. Self-perfection and true peace, he thought, would be found in experiencing the world in all splendor and horror that it had to offer.
Long years has he wandered, carrying little but what was needed to survive, and a keepsake of his lost wife. He learned from the people he met, and taught them as well, of the path to true Understanding, and true peace.
Now an old man, he seeks to return to Kasuri's homeland, so he may spread her ashes over the land she grew up in, and died so very far from.
He finds himself in Sandpoint, and has become a willing student of Ameiko, learning at last the native tongue of his wife, to prepare him
for his journey back to Minkai.
