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About Nexus Exodus

26 years ago, An amazing astrological event occurred, though most people never noticed. With a careful eye and the aid of magic or technology, the southern sky gave birth to a conjoining of two far-off galaxies. The monks of the Twilight Monastery saw this fortuitous event as signs of some major clash occurring in there own world. But the investigations into the matter were interrupted by another event; a child.
It was only by luck he was found as the gate was being closed for the evening. Orphaned on the steps of the monastery, the baby could be no more than a few weeks old. Warily, the monks inspected the bundle left to them. He seemed healthy, yet peculiar. He did not cry, even left alone in the cold: nor did he even seem to notice the people around him. He simply stared at the darkening sky with odd eyes: one green, one blue.
The monks took the child to Izenfen an asked what should be done. Izenfen simply stated, "We will watch him". As the monks attended to the child, Izenfen sat quietly in thought. What were the chances of a child with eyes the same colors as the mating galaxies above?

The child grew with a fanatic hunger for knowledge, whether it be the martial arts of the warrior monks or the speculative documents of the scholars. He saw them as the same. In fact, he often saw the whole world through connections, which is why he was named Nexus. Nexus loved his surrogate family and took to his duties at the monastery with great pride; yet he new he could not stay after the clash between the monastery and the Diamond lake miners that took the life of his friend, Imonoth, and 22 miners.
Nexus continued to live with the monks until he was Twelve, watching the home he new change due to Izenfen's depression and isolation imposed by his daughters death. Nexus felt it as well, but tried to shut out the pain of loss and force himself to continue. He new eventually he would have to bid his home farewell, so moved down to Diamond Lake in hopes of obtaining enough money to get far away; to try and break his connection.

Life in diamond lake was hard and Nexus did what he could to survive. Most often he would run errands and deliveries to pay for his room at the tap house. He never kept his property with him for fear someone may take everything he worked for and prolong his escape from his pain. Instead, he kept his wealth well hidden in a small, nameless, and abandoned cairn a few miles outside of town. These qualities protected his investments but endangered his life.
Once, after dropping of his weeks earnings, Nexus stumbled on an instance of banditry. A man stood over another not twenty yards from his cairn. The bandit noticed him and attacked. Without a thought, Nexus' training welled up and the bandit was on ground. Nexus had not noticed the bandit's previous injuries, and feared he may have killed him outright. That thought was quashed after Nexus looked to the other man. The victim was most certainly dead.
Nexus decided the bandit deserved his fate, left him, and proceeded to check the other man for identification or signet. The victim was a student out of a college in greyhawk; his pack containing several books on different subjects of magic, inks and quills, parchment, and a spellbook. Nexus could not turn in the items, as his own character may be called into question. He couldn't return them to Greyhawk either as he didn't have the funds to send himself let alone the victims accouterments. His final decision was to keep them until he could return them himself. Until then, he found his curiosity overwhelming.

Nexus' ability to see connections gave him a natural affinity for magic, as it further strengthened his concept of all things being born from similar origin, hence them being connected. Over the years, he began to forget his need to be away from this area as he lost himself more and more in his magic conceptualizations. He spent more and more of his money on anything even remotely related to magic, from macabre figurines to spell charred weapons. After another nine years he had obtained quite the hoard. His study, however, had made him careless.
Late in the fall, he found his cairn hideaway ransacked. Everything was either destroyed or stolen. His first thought was bandits, but he knew it could have just as easily been the youth from town. He spent a cold winter with nothing that year, thinking of how he abandoned his life in the monastery. He decided he would return, and forget his magical passion.

As he returned up the road to Elmshire in early spring, he encountered a robed middle-aged man with a long flowing beard next to a broken cart. The man introduced himself as the wizard Allustan, mayor Lanod's brother. He asked Nexus if he would help him lift the cart so he may fix it. Nexus did so, and with a few words and gestures, the cart was fixed. As was Nexus' ennui. Surly this must be a sign, just as the monks taught. A connection.
Nexus returned to Diamond lake with Allustan, explaining his predicament the whole way. Allustan thanked him for the help and told him to come back by when he had settled in. After an anxious few days, Nexus returned to Allustan's house to find and offer of a surrogate apprenticeship.
Nexus still doesn't know what Allustan saw to accept him, but he has proudly served him for the last five years.