The Empire of Five Kings, founded hundreds of years past, has stood for generations as a forced pillar of unity. However, in order to maintain that unity against the various threats and dangers outside city walls a group of soldiers and arcanists were assembled. These would be the Duperen, the Empires Traveling Mercenaries and would-be-heroes.
Alder is one such Duperen. Born with little talent for magic and to a family of fishermen and psudeo-nobility, Alder studied to become an accomplished Arcanist and to join the ranks of the Pere forces. Unfortunatley for him, he never found a field of magic that worked, so instead he was placed in the Battle-Mage Corp, the group most closesly associated with death, decay, and dropouts. From here, Alder would go on to write his legacy in the chapters of History.