William was born into a family of engineers who always tried to make the best of stuff using the fewest materials. His days were spent learning the best ways to build random objects that he never thought were useful and his notebook would be full of drawings of different weapons and their subsequent mathematical properties such as weight, how much force would be required to swing something like this and how much damage the person on the receiving end would receive.
As he grew older he would talk with Sandru about his life as a caravan guard and as an adventure. It filled William’s head with fantasies and a want of that life. Whenever William would ask Sandru about why he gave up adventuring Sandru always changed the subject, mostly with combat lessons. Sandru encouraged William to learn how to defend himself and William took that to heart learning how to use every type of weapon he got his hands on. Due to Williams’ small size as a kid he always would try to trip Sandru in their practice sessions using wooden weapons of the real thing. Every once in a while Sandru would fake tripping just to give William some encouragement and to keep William focused on combat training to never stop attacking until the opponent is dead, this was a concept that William learned very slowly as Sandru never died in their training.
When William came of age Sandru took him to the Rusty Dragon and bought him a celebratory drink. “To William for turning 15!” he bellowed to the whole tavern and everyone cheered and drank. William taking his first sip of ale ever, spat the drink back into his mug, coughing, he asked Sandru “What is this vile drink?” Then Ameiko piped up saying “Kid that is my best stuff if you don’t like it don’t buy it.” With that Sandru retorted “Give the kid a break Ameiko it was his first time drinking. Don’t worry William you will get used to it.” William replied. “Well you haven’t sent me down the wrong path before.” and took a giant swig of the drink. After he swallowed he coughed and everyone just laughed.
Three years later William set out on a journey hoping to achieve something similar to what Sandru told him in his youth.
