Father Ted Backstory

Father Ted was born in a small town called Damacia. He came from what he known to be a simple life. Growing up, his parents (need parent's name) were always somewhat holy and worships the Goddess of Life, Naj. It was said that when Ted was born, Naj herself went down and touched Ted. This explains why Ted has such an affinity in performing healing magic. This also gave him the ability to talk to Naj every now and then through his dreams.

As Ted grew up, more and more people have been hearing about his abilities and every now and then, some people from across the land has came to Damacia to get healed. Ted's family often gets donation for his services but most of the time, they refused. Ted also didn't mind it but what did bother him was people started calling him Father Ted. Ted never wanted to become a priest for personal reasons.

One day, a nobleman came by to town and has asked Ted to heal him. Ted does it with ease and the nobleman asked Ted and his family if Ted can be hired as his personal healer. In return, he promises Damacia to be wealthier and he will build a better temple for Naj and build health centers to compensate for losing Ted. The noble's name was Silas Malone. The Malone family is very well known and very wealthy and they are mainly situated in the town of Nagiii. Ted's parents initially didn't agree but Ted seems willing to go.

As Ted journeys to Nagiii, Silas would ask his guards to stop by towns that they passed by for rest and allow Ted to perform some healing. Ted was then started to become known as a "miracle healer" and started to attract donations in which, like his parents, mostly rejected it. Naj would often appear on Ted's dreams thanking him for his work. The journey back to Nagiii was long and Ted's estimation was around 2 to 3 weeks because of the stops they had to make.

Upon reaching Nagiii, Ted was treated almost as highly as Silas. Ted became acquainted with everyone important in the city. He was also given his rod as a gift as thanks for accepting the role of being a nobleman's healer. Few weeks has passed and Ted was getting accustom to this lifestyle. He would also write to his parents everyday and would get a response soon after.

However on one quiet night, Ted was just roaming around town and was suddenly approached by someone. Upon a closer look, it turned out to be one of his childhood friends (need a childhood friend name) and has informed him how Silas went against his word and slaughtered almost everyone in Damacia shortly after they left. Ted at first didn't believe him but spent the next few days investigating it.

This investigation took a dark turn when he found out a couple of things:


 * Silas was using Ted to heal people in exchange for money. Ted thought that he was doing it for free and takes donation every now and then.
 * Silas was also using this money for his selfish luxurious lifestyle and was charging poorer people who were more sick more money.
 * The towns they have passed by when coming to Nagiii was also the same, the rich nobles were all in this together exploiting Ted's abilities.
 * Silas was making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
 * The letters that he has been getting was forged by one of Silas' people and his letters were never sent.
 * Silas was also conspiring against the Kingdom of Hairamod along with other nobles.

Ted was devastated and asked Naj for guidance. In his dream, Naj was sympathetic and asked Ted to help the poor and the sick and that she didn't mind how he does it so long as he continues the good work. Ted from that moment on decided to go by "Father Ted" and vowed to help the poor by taking money from the rich.

However, his investigation didn't go unnoticed. Silas found out and went after Ted. Ted fled the city taking everything he could and started his journey south as he knew they would be looking for him north. His childhood friend sacrificed himself to allow Ted to escape.

He meets a couple of new friends along the way to Davenport. He then decided to go further south to Ozryn which can be reached faster by a ship from Davenport.