Originating in a place like Westcrown, it isn't hard to believe that there would be plenty of sailors, or pirates, in the family tree, especially when there is a long line of half-Orcs as ancestors. Oddly enough, though, it wasn't the Orc side of Yuron's family tree that gave him that particular quirk of the blood. His one connection to his Orcish heritage is the ritual tattoo that his father gave him on his right shoulder. The phrase on the tattoo is a family motto from Yuron's mother's side.
Yuron was born and raised in Isger, entertained as a child by the stories that his parents told of their family's history. In the days before Aroden's death, the Issen family, had made a name for themselves as pirate hunters. Yuron doesn't know what it was that turned the family's fortunes, if they were victims of Aroden's fall, or if it was the fact that Yuron's great grandmother was born a half-Orc. On the other side, Yuron's mother regaled him with tales of her ancestor's piracy, though her stories always focused on swashbuckling adventures rather than cutthroat business. His favorite story was the one about the Sylph (or maybe it was something else) ancestor that caused sorcerers to appear every few generations.
Shortly before he was born, Yuron's parents moved from Westcrown to Augustana, in Andoran, not wanting their son to grow up in a place dominated by devil worship. Once there, they took to the family trade, one parent staying with Yuron while the other was gone. When he was old enough, they would leave him alone, trusting him to look after himself, and to keep his sOrcery in check.
Yuron never believed that his parents would be gone, until they were. They had gone out on a ship together, and the ship was attacked and sunk, with all hands lost. That is what he was told, anyway; Yuron isn't quite sure it was true. He didn't know what he was to do after that, except that he didn't want to be in his parents house anymore. He used the money he got from his parent's death to book passage to Westcrown, not really knowing what his aim was, but wanting to somehow find the truth behind the stories he was told as a child. To that end, he's decided to start by looking into the local criminal element.
