Fenchus Deverin Junior was found during a hunt in The Tickwood, resting upon a bed of singed downy white feathers. The child was fair, and quick to laugh and smile and swiftly stole the heart of Sandpoint's then mayor, Fenchus Deverin, who took the boy in and adopted him.
Fen, as the boy became known, was a bright and likeable lad and the apple of his parents eye. Handsome and gregarious he quickly became a leader amongst the youth of Sandpoint, and was something of a star at the Turnadarok Academy. His only real rival was Tsuto Kiajitsu, also from one of Sandpoint's founding families, but abandoned to live with the Turandarok orphans, by all save his sister Ameiko, due to the dubious circumstances of his birth.
From the start Tsuto hated Fen, who it seemed had everything he did not. What made things worst for Tsuto was that Fen had none of the blood of his parents who loved him dearly, while he Tsuto at least carried his mothers blood. The half elf would constantly taunt Fen about the strange circumstances of his birth, claiming his parents were more likely a goblin and a goose than angels as most of Sandpoint half believed.
Fen had never experienced hatred before, and in some strange way it fascinated him. He found himself drawn to the slender half elven boy, who sneered and treated him like dirt, while everyone else fawned and fell before his relentless charm. Only Tsuto was immune to Fen's silver tongue, only Tsuto denied him.
The two boys clashed frequently, both bright, Fen a skilled singer and actor, Tsuto the more agile and skilled. They were well matched. Then at fourteen Tsuto dared Fen to break into the Academy's basement with him at night to view Headmaster Gandethus's fabled treasures. But when Fen snuck into the academy and crept into the orphanage he found Tsuto sobbing and clutching his kness upon the stairs. Tsuto had tried to speak with "his father" and once again received only scorn from the stern Tian, he would remain banished for the sin of his birth.
Alone in the dark Fen reached out to the wounded boy, told him that it was not his fault. Hugged him, held him, and then it became more. Frightened of their feelings the two boys experienced something intoxicating, they knew it was wrong, knew they would be scorned for their actions, but that only made it more tantalizing. At school they continued to snipe at one another, more bitterly than before if anything, and even engaged in several brutal fights. For years they were foes in public, and lovers in private and then Elsa Morgan walked in on them in one of the back rooms at the Sandpoint Theatre.
Fen was given a furious lecture by his father, accused of sullying his name, and of bringing the family into disrepute. When they boy protested that there could be nothing wrong with loving someone and that they were hurting nobody his father said quietly, "Would that I had left you where I found you," and walked away.
The next day Fen found himself bundled aboard a traders ship bound for Taldor. His mother and Aunt were distraught, Fen himself cried long and hard, but his father was nowhere to be seen as the ship pulled away. Fen was enrolled at the Kitharoian Academy. He never saw his father again, returning only after Fenchus Deverin's death from a snake bite, to comfort his grieving mother and aunt who welcomed him with open arms.
The Kitharoian Academy was a great experience for Fen, for once he was a little fish in a big pond. His charm was nothing remarkable amongst the best and brightest students gathered to study music and acting in the Taldan capital Oppara. He made friends, he learned, and he grew.
When he returned Fen sort out Tsuto, and for a while their relationship resumed. But Tsuto's bitterness had hardened and he began to speak of destroying his father, expressing idle fantasies of bringing suffering and even torturing the man who had caused him so much pain. Fen tried to talk him out of such dark thoughts, but a distance grew between them, and they began to drift apart.
Then Tsuto struck his sister Ameiko, and when Fen confronted him about it things devolved into a furious argument where both men said things that could never be unsaid. Fen ended up giving Tsuto a black eye before fleeing, and a week later when Fen's beloved horse Titus died, Tsuto hinted that he had poisoned him. Fen never quite believed Tsuto, but he was striken with lingering doubt and decided to take up his Aunts offer to go and help with family interests in Magnimar.
In Magnimar Fen saw a carving of a strange fiery angel which he found himself drawn to. The figure was Ragathiel a divine spirit, whose doctorines of justice and righteous vengeance upon the wicked appealed to Fen. The Magnimar cult was small, but the men and women who made up its numbers impressed the young Deverin and he became a fervent believer, something about it feeling deeply right.
Some months later Fen encountered Tsuto in Magnimar. Tsuto looked brittle and angry, and when Fen tried offer his help he laughed in his face and told him that he and all of Sandpoint would pay for the way they had treated him. Fen declared that he would never allow such a thing, and then someone hit him on the head from behind.
When Fen awoke he was back in Deverin Manor in Sandpoint, having been found near death in an alley in Magnimar. He had been in a coma for some two months. And in that time he had dreamed of his new god, and come into a purpose, he would be a sword of justice in the name of Ragthiel, he would protect his home, and if he ever encountered Tsuto Kaijitsu again he would make him pay for his crimes.
Since then Fen has recovered his lost strength, spent time helping his Aunt, more at The Sandpoint Theatre performing, and even helped with the construction of Sandpoint's new cathedral. Now that he is recovered he seeks a path that will allow him to serve Ragathiel.
