Simon lived his whole life in the Vieland of Ustalav, in a small city of Highshade on the edge of the Tusk Mountain. When he was 18 his mother died, and he raised his little sister from the age of three onward. When he was 23 the town got word of a hoard of orcs headed in their direction, and they prepared for the worst. Had it not been for the actions of a paladin who happened to be in town, his story most likely would have ended on the edge of an orc spear. The paladin spoke to the orcs, and then mediated a treaty between the orcs and the city council, leading to close to three hundred new citizens and workers.
The first few years were rough, but things returned mostly to normal soon enough. Simon worked mostly as a hunter, occasionally taking the odd farmhand job to help out during the harvest, and it was working the Danisons farm when he met Morkisa. The young orc woman and her daughter were working as farmhands as well, and he sat near them by coincidence during the communal meal and struck up a conversation. She was the daughter of their former chief, now a member of the town council, and her former husband had been killed in the dragon attack that drove them from their homeland, but she now found herself enjoying this new, more peaceful life. After a couple of years of courtship they were wed, and soon produced a son.
Four months ago, fourteen years after the orcs had come to Highshade, the council sent Morkisa and their daughter, he officially adopted his stepdaughter when they were wed, back into the orc homeland to attempt to begin making peace with some of the other orc tribes who were not as taken with the bloodlust that marked most of their race. Three weeks ago Simon was woken by his sister by way of a Sending spell. She said her girlfriend had woken in a cold sweat, and had immediately cast the spell to him. She had had a dream of an orc woman chained up in a cave by a dragon, and had been compelled to Send to him. His sister insisted that was not the usual way her magic worked, but she was cut off and he wasn't understanding it anyway. The last thing she told him to do was head to Trunau, and so he did, leaving their son with Morkisa's father. He may not be a scholar or adventurer like his sister, or a diplomat like his wife, or even a warrior like his adopted daughter, but he was determined to find them, and he would be all of them at once if that is what it took.