Vicakos Autumnmore was supported through seminary by his blacksmithing family, who invested what little they had in their youngest child. Now he seeks to gain prestige for his once-influential family throughout the kingdoms.

The Autumnmores were, for a great while, a wealthy and influential family loyal to the Hyperborean lords of the continent, but their fortunes all but disappeared when the Empire's grasp receded back across the sea.