Upon reaching his eighteenth birthday the young prince set out on a journey of self discovery and steadily worked his way back to his home land near Amn. Many was the hard lesson learned on the trip and though but still in his twenties Ardon’s hair had grayed and he now has the look of one much older than his actual years. Finally after years of searching Ardon stood on a hill and overlooked his family’s estate, but loath he was to discover that the Caruso mansion had been burned to the ground and the family fields lay in waist. It seems that a local baron held his own grudge against Count Caruso and had laid waist to the estates and killed the Count before Ardon could seek his own revenge.

Thus Ardon found that the red hot hatred that had sustained him all these years was now but a smoldering ash and with a much lightened soul he set out to find his own place in the world.....