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Jonas (or Jon) was a poor youth raised in Absolom's Docks District. He lived in a small shack with his mother. His father, he had heard, was a sailor of some sort, though Mother wouldn't speak much of him. Jon had never met him. His Mother used to work in a brothel, but for most of Jon's life he knew her as a sickly woman who struggled. They made a living selling cockles they could gather during low tide. Jon worked hard, doing whatever odd jobs he could for sailors, working as a crier when new businesses opened, or whatever else. Eventually, just before Jon turned ten, they had saved up enough coin to afford a small house in Beldrin's Bluff (better known today as the Precipice District - or 'Cliffside' to some of the natives). It was his mother's dream come true, finally they had a nice place to live without rampant crime.

Unfortunately, life decided they couldn't have nice things. Just over a year after they moved, the earthquake of 4698 struck Absolom, collapsing most of Beldrin's Bluff into the sea. Jon was with his tutor, and managed to survive. His mother wasn't so lucky.

After that, everything went back downhill for Jon. He couldn't afford to live elsewhere, so he joined up with some of the other street urchins and turned to crime. He learned to steal and swindle and managed to take care of himself, if only barely. Still, there was something lurking in the remains of Cliffside... Local stories began to spread about ghosts and shadows. Strange occurrences and hauntings. Jon began to see them too, strange shapes just out of the corner of his eye in the night, half-heard sounds where nothing was to be found. He tried to put it out of his mind, but over the years it grew and grew until it was just too much. Jon, now a man, left. He wanted to find a way out of the city.

Eventually, he found himself at the Pathfinder Society. There, he applied to skills he had learned to their goals, and managed to secure a position in the organization. He finally had his ticket out of Absolom.

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Childermass?! (Norrell)

First Name: Jonas/Jon
Last Name: Halloway? Hardesty? Fontaine? Matterly? Reismeyer? Scrivener? Swainsbrick? Vanderberg? Walder___shaw/?