Alexite Ratarion was born in Cheliax as a child of one of the many devil worshipping noble families. From infancy his family and their infernal masters had great plans for him, teaching him primordial and archaic magic since he was young. He doesn't exactly know what those plans for him were, if he was supposed to usurp the throne or lead an army of hellspawn, but he always had a feeling it was something big and utterly evil.
Even at a young age he was forced to do terrible things and swear horrible oaths to dark forces. He didn't know better, he tells himself these days, he had to do it, or they would have killed him, just like they did with his mother. She had been the daughter of a minor noble of House Medvyed in Brevoy, and was married to his father for political reasons and to secure trade relations. She too had been forced to take these dark oaths after arriving. Once he was older she had told him about the wilderness of southern Brevoy and the Stolen Lands and taught him about some of the fey within.
All was well, till one day when she tried to take young Alexite and take off, fleeing Cheliax. Not knowing what was happening the young boy screamed and drew the attention of the guards, who immediately arrested her. In a secret court she was found guilty of treason to her oaths and sentenced to death. Her own husband, Alex' father, was the one carrying out the deed, and he made him watch the execution. Of course, to not jeopardize the relations with House Medvyed officially it was announced that she had died in a riding accident. This was when he for the first time doubted the infernal masters.
The older he got the more this doubt grew and he began to despise his so called destiny and the devils that his family had made a pact with. One night he packed his things and slipped out of the family estate. He hated the fact that he had to slit the throats of two of the guards, but it had to be done, otherwise he would never have made it out. And he knew what the fiends would do to him if he was caught, so that was not an option anymore.
He travelled for a long time, moving far to the north-east from his homeland, towards the wilds that his mother had told him about. He hopes to find the means to break free of his oaths here, maybe with the help of the fey, or by discovering some other ancient mythics. He uses the name Alex now and keeps his family name a secret, as well as his connection to House Medvyed.
