Like many of the halflings of Korvosa, Pluck was raised on the docks. He grew up in a small, rickety hotel by the waterfront, a place that halflings sailors stayed in between voyages. His father was a sailor, working tirelessly around the year to provide for his wife and child. Pluck's childhood was spent racing around the docks, playing tag with the other kids, swinging from loos ropes on docked ships, snatching fresh fish from streetside stalls and fleeing from knife-wielding vendors. In his early years, he was free to wander the streets, a wonder-filled kid in a massive playground.
When he reached the proper age of 20, Pluck did what his father and his father's father did, and started his career as a sailor. The ship he began working on was known as the Smiling Scrag, a small schooner with a half-orc captain known to the crew only as "Cap'n." Pluck began as a swabby, cleaning decks and dishes. However, it didn't take long for more fresh meat to come aboard, and he was soon trained to sail by the human first-mate, Roy.
After a few voyages, the Smiling Scrag found an uncharted island far off the coast of Varisia, and Cap'n decided to weigh anchor and take his crew to explore the island. On the island, the crew found a large, fiery creature, in the shape of a humanoid but having a body consisting of flames. What happened next is unknown, though Pluck showed up on a row boat on the Varisian coast days later, burns all over his body. Pluck has never told what happened on the island.
