The origins of Eisen Helstrom are a mystery, even to the young man himself. His earliest memories of a family are of his foster-mother, Koya Mvashti. When asked about his birth parents, Koya only shrugs and retells the few facts that she knows. His mother arrived in Sandpoint with a caravan nearly three decades ago clutching a half-Tian babe to her chest. When the caravan departed a few days later, so did Eisen’s mother - without the child. As she’s wont to do, Koya stepped up to the task of caring for the newborn when it was discovered what had happened. In all the years since, no one has ever returned for the child.
Eisen was an intelligent child and Koya saw that he received a strong education. He was educated in a variety of subjects including history, politics, and theology. However, it was an interest in Koya’s own healing arts that drew his real interest. He went he came of age, he was sent away as apprentice to an apothecary where he learned the secrets of identifying plants, gathering reagents, and brewing elixirs for a multitude of purposes. He communicated regularly with is foster mother through the years and she would visit on rare occasions when Sandru Vhiski's caravan passed through, but somehow he never managed to return to Sandpoint.
Until now.
With his apprenticeship completed, Eisen began pondering what to do next. Although he loved his craft, wanderlust had begun to set in. Certainly there were countless rare and exotic reagents he had come to learn of and he was anxious to find and gather them for himself. Recently, a letter reached Eisen from Koya informing him that she was intent on taking a long journey away from Sandpoint - mostly likely away from Varissia altogether. The opportunity to reconnect with the woman that raised him while traveling beyond the lands he had grown familiar with was too good to pass up. Gather that which he could carry, Eisen set off for Sandpoint.
