My name is Cael... I don't bother with the long flowery name that my supposed father left me, if one must know it was cael-que-rath. the only thing that name ever got me was beat up as a child! Yes my father left me a name i don't want a small jeweled necklace to remember my mother by and a longbow. what a legacy.
I have little memory of either of my parents now. I don't remember my father at all save through fading stories told by mum while she still lived. She died when i was still young i can't remember what the healer said she actually died from but i know it was the loss of my father that did her in. He left and she never forgot him always expecting him to return any day.. and always being disappointed.
For all the grief he caused at least my father left me with something worthwhile, Evan granda grudgingly admits that the longbow he left me is as solid of craftsmanship as any he has ever seen. and that's high praise coming from granda.
Granda was a true man that taught me my skills and to be at peace with myself, as i grew up and granda grew old. We lived in "his" corner of the wilderness tracking and hunting and living of the land in all seasons. giving to nature as much as i took became as second nature. He taught me there is great strength in nature and if you can take the time to search it out even a little magic.
Granda was a master archer and could do things with a bow and arrow that is hard to believe. I swear i once saw a shaft go around 4 trees before finding its mark. When i asked granda how that could be possible he asked me if it happened when i reapplied yes then he said if it is possible then you can learn it if you apply yourself. I have broken hundreds of arrows on targets throughout the woods and still haven't accomplished this feat but it is possible and i will apply myself.
He taught me many things did Granda, many say a sword is the way to go not my granda, he once told me a sword is good for killing and getting yourself killed ant nothing more. sure you can use it for a while if yo need to get some room for a real weapon like a bow but that's all a sword should be used for if you can avoid it.
It is a crime that a man such as granda had to die so young or is it a crime that i have grown up so slowly both physical and in the knowledge granda tried to pound into my head?
It has been 6 months since the death of granda and the little cabin is really growing claustrophobic. even out here there has been heard new of call for those who would enlarge the holdings of our country and maybe in this i can overcome the loss of my mentor and possible do some good in the world that granda has left to me.
