I am a Scottish Borderer, born in Venice of an Italian mother and Scottish mercenary. My father took me home with him as a young child when my mother died, and I grew up in the Border fortress of the Hermitage. I went to live in Edinburgh, and the year in common reckoning is 1566, with mary Stuart on the throne of Scotland (though not for much longer I'd wager, given her behaviour...
I've been in the Laurel Kingdoms for the past 25 years, living under the crescent moons of Caid and latterly in Lochac as a Crescent Islander.