Having lived a coddled existence for most of his life, Torbrun was shocked from his sense of entitled complacency when it emerged that his more charismatic but less scrupulous twin, Arbrun had siphoned off and squandered the entire family fortune. Amid media revelations and speculation of a string of huge gambling debts, stockmarket trading irregularitues and failed forays into largescale drug smuggling and slave trading, Arbrun promptly vanished, leaving ruin in his wake.

Publicly disgraced and humiliated by the media frenzy, Torbrun found himself shunned by his pious former peers. Fearful of the criminal cartels linked to his brother's disappearance and unable to pay his twin's debtors, Torbrun was evicted from his family home and forced to flee Emrayur with only the clothes on his back. With no practical skills to offer any employer, Torbrun has only recently begun to appreciate the true challenges of trying to eke out a living and survive in New Eden.