Ashcroft's Legacy : of a mage apprentice.

"Blood is magic, magic is blood" from the dawn of time this had been true in the Kelredian Empire. All nobles were mages and in some mesure all mages could ascend to nobility. Anyone with magic could enter the Academy for Arcanic Arts, only nobles and the brightest were exempted from the large fees it required but many of low extraction raised to the highest level after their studies. (Andrew the first even ended being emperor despite having being born in a simple peasant home.)

Your family was one of the few to have had three of its members elected Emperor by the 27 electoral princes of the nation. Those three powerful archmages had ruled with wisdom in their time making the name of Ashcroft a respected one. The throne was not hereditary, the founders of the Empire had ruled that no child of an emperor could succeed him or her. This system kept balance and stopped humanity to do solve once again into waring tribes.

How low had you fallen.

It all started with the Lorican war. One day, 256 years ago a huge army gathered at the edge of the plains that bordered your family's domain. Masses of green skins, undeads, demons and even dragons had gathered under the banner of the high Lich Loric the grim.

A strong defense was offered but once the three red dragons got into it the world burned and all that was left of your family were a despaired widow and a new born son that would never meet his father.

They retreated to their small manor in the capital that they kept to live when at court. An official petition to the emperor started the Lorican war to retake the land of your ancestors and stop the horde's advance. The Empire was joined in that effort by many of the dwarves Thanes and two clans of Elves.

All you ancestors died on the battlefield to regain your domain and it was rare for your family to have more than three or four living members. It took 230 years to see the end of the war. By the end of it the Ashcroft family had lost all influence and most of its wealth. All that was left were two children and their mother, living in a small house with only two servant.

Six emperors had ruled and died since Hector the third promised your line to give its land back to you. The new emperor Rinaldi the second chose instead to offer what didn't turn into an deserted wasteland to the Donovan family that was linked to him by alliances.

Your mother decided to use the only thing her name could afford and enroll both her son and daughter in the Academy were both shined and showed to all the strength in magic that still flowed in the Ashcroft's blood.

After years of study it was time for you both , having grasped the basics of magic to get an apprenticeship with a Master to learn on the field how to channel your gifts.