Ludan grew up with his mother serving a temple deep in the Kine Desert, where he served a number of gods, but primarily the God of Life. It was an egalitarian community, widely diverse and welcoming to people of all walks of life. Ludan never knew his father, nor did he ever really ask his mother about him. After all, the community provided more than enough support for the few children who were born there every year.

 

However, the desert was harsh and only grew more difficult to withstand. The massive dunes began to take over their little valley, and the days grew hotter. With the wells running dry and the sand impossible to keep at bay, the few who remained there eventually decided they would have to leave.

 

Ludan helped get everyone out of the temple and went back to lock up, record, and preserve all that he could in the temple for a long while before returning. He started a caravan of travelers, and over the next hundred years, helped relocate small settlements of people in settlements or new villages throughout the continent. During this time, he took on many lovers, a couple of which whom stayed with him for more than just a few nights at a time. He even took over to care for a family that had lost their own parents and raised them until they were adults. Everything he ever did during this time, was in service to his people.

 

One by one, he slowly watched as people left to start the new part of their life, or they died off. His adopted children had no interest in staying with him on his travels and left the nest as soon as they were able to. The caravan grew smaller, and the settlements turned into permanent homes for many. Eventually, he saw to it that his last friend who was with him the entire time was given a home, and he retired the last wagon.

 

He did not know what to do at this point. His community had been dispersed into dozens of different places, and his people as a community were no longer. He was the last person without a place to call home. And so, he set out to find a new purpose for himself, unable to see himself living a domestic life again when he had done so little for his own needs and aspirations. He began to perfect his magic, and learn more about the history of the world, hoping to find inspiration on where to start again.

 

Then, one strange day, he was summoned by an ex-assassin and an ex-cultist, both of whom wanted to escape their former lives, and start anew. He agreed to help them, and so, his next journey has begun.