[OOC] About Trystan's Past

== The info below is safe to know out-of-character for other *players* (but not the PCs) ==
 
Trystan Uriel was born a noble of Waterdeep, to an unknown Aasimar mother and to a cruel human noble father.
 
At the behest of his father, due to a mater of political expedience and family pride, Trystan was sent from an early age to be trained as a Knight of Tyr. For most of his childhood and teenage years, he lived with the order. His two best friends were fellow knights in training: Daniel and Isabelle.
 
About a year before all three of them were set to undergo their final test, and potential knighting, Trystan’s friends publicly announced the two of them had become engaged.
 
Soon after, however, Daniel fell suddenly ill. He died of said illness, and Trystan and Isabelle became close, apparently leaning onto one another in their mourning, and eventually started dating themselves. However, mere weeks before their graduating test, Isabelle disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Seemingly overcome by grief - though many darker rumors circulated about the situation - Trystan ran away from Waterdeep.
 
He spent a few years as a drunkard and layabout in Baldur’s Gate, until, a few months before the start of the story, he seemed to regain his sense of purpose in life. He left Baldur's Gate and headed towards the library of Candlekeep, where he gained entrance to the archives and spent some time perusing some rather esoteric knowledge.
 
On the road out of Candlekeep, he met a fairy named Endry, and rescued him from a group of thugs and bandits (who might or might not have had their own reasons for going after the fairy...). The two of them soon joined up with a group of strangers, part of a merchant caravan, headed towards the town of Greenest... the group that would soon become the so-called Menagerie of Might.
 
Now Trystan has reemerged into the public eye, generally acting like a questing knight and trying to become a famous hero, with his first great deed involving "leading" the motley group of adventurers against the Cult of the Dragon attacking Greenest.
 
However, his thirst for fame and recognition, as well as his cruelty against his enemies, are hard to hide from those who spend long enough around the "Knight of Waterdeep". More ambiguous is the short but still unexplained string of disappearances that follows in the group's wake, often with Trystan being one of the last people seen around the victim.
 
His own party is divided between those that believe the hero facade and those that have grown to suspect him of a much darker nature.