Player: Sean

Aldwin was an orphan raised in the manor-keep of Baron Thorne, a minor noble of House Orbaskyr in Cormyr. His adoptive parents were Eldric and Aleena, two of the Baron's minor servants. The Baron's lands were in eastern Cormyr, north of Wheloon and west of the Thunder Peaks.

Aldwin was loved and grew up happy, but he had a penchant for trouble and mischief-making that grew as he aged. Whenever caught, he would make restitution and promise to do better to his constantly exasperated parents. As a young man, he caught the eye of Baron Thorne's daughter, Farica, and they fell in love. When the Baron found out, he was outraged his daughter would sully herself with a lowly peasant, and ordered his men to bring Aldwin before him.

A fight broke out in the Baron's council chamber, and Aldwin ended up slaying two of the Baron's guards. When Thorne himself attacked Aldwin, Farica tried to interject herself between them, and the Baron ran her through, unable to stop the killing blow meant for Aldwin. Aldwin was then struck unconscious from behind by another guard.

Mad with rage and grief, Baron Thorne framed Aldwin for the murders of his guards and his daughter, then had him thrown into the prison-city of Wheloon (the king had ordered the city sealed off with brick and magic when it was discovered much of the population were Shar worshipers. The fact that some of the citizens were innocent couldn't factor into the decision.)

Aldwin fell in with a group of decent people just looking to survive in the hellish prison, and soon found himself working at odds with the Sharrans (that is, stealing from them every chance he got) to feed and equip his new friends. Eventually, he and a few others were able to quietly fight their way free through a long-forgotten (but monster infested) sewer tunnel.

Finally free, but now a wanted murderer in his homeland, he took the new name Zerric, and his adventures have taken him ever eastward. While traveling through High Imaskar, he happened upon a group of slavers who had cornered a small family. Dispatching them as a lone Vengeance Taker came upon the scene, he was recruited into the force.

While "Zerric" maintains his happy-go-lucky, rogue with a heart of gold personality, he does desire to someday return to Cormyr and clear his name (and settle accounts with Baron Thorne!).