From a small village is Varisia, Terrean has always been attracted to sites of power. At the age of 14 he began feeling a gentle mental push in his head whenever he ventured away from the nearby woods. While at the same time he began to feel sickly in his small village. As time went on and his sickness progressed, he began spending more time in the woods, where the incessant mental push abated, until he came across a copse of ancient oak trees. As soon as he entered the perimeter of the copse he began to feel healthy and vital instead of the sickly child he normally felt like.
His health improved greatly during this time, but he found that whenever he was too far from the copse, or whenever he didn't visit often enough, his strength would begin to drain, leaving him weak and sickly again. Noticing the connection, Terrean began tearing up the copse area, looking for the source of what was happening, he cut into trees, dug into the ground, even burned away part of the root system, but although he could feel the power inside the earth, he couldn't find any source.
Sensing the nearby destruction of one of their forests, a small cabal of druids sought out the destroyed area, running into Terrean and apprehending him. When he explained what was happening the druids took him to see one of their members, Lenion May, who often talked of places and lines of power. The Lenion quickly found in Terrean the same ability manifest in himself, the ability to attune to leylines and places of power, thereby empowering themselves. He taught Terrean to control the magic attached to his place of power, and to channel that power through the leylines of the world. Quickly accepted into the community, and quickly accepting of the community Terrean began working with the druids to help undo some of the damage he had created, while helping the druids protect their forest from other people who would destroy it.
While on a standard patrol through the forest Terrean stumbled upon signs of distress which lead him to his former village, there finding the handiwork of rampaging goblins, people and goblins cut apart, food stores raided, houses burned and livestock eaten. Although he never found his parents remains, most of the bodies were mutilated too much to identify.
With renewed focus on his studies, Terrean began searching the leylines for sources of power which could help him avenge his village. However, in Varisia there are other people looking for these places of power, and still others crafting their own. Terrean's mentor began sensing a disturbance in the leylines around Sandpoint and despite not wanting to leave Terrean in his time of anger and anguish, went to search for the cause. Lenion still hasn't yet returned. Terrean's anger is now tinging with the beginnings of worry because his mentor has never been gone this long before.
