*A dozen sealed letters, laid on doorsteps at night in mysterious circumstances, by unknown hands. The letters contained an invitation to a meeting in an abandoned mine in Fold Valley, an isolated southern region of the wide continent of Nehrim. The letters did not state why, or to what purpose. Yet most of the recipients obeyed, and they arrived at the appointed place at the appointed time.

You were one of the chosen, and you heeded the call...

You used to live and study at the peaceful and remote Tirin Abbey until you received a "mysterious letter". You have blindly followed the instructions given in the letter, leading you into a mostly abandoned mine on the southern border of the Middlerealm.*

Eventually you meet the archmage Merzul, you are chosen as one of the few with the ability to do magic, a forbidden gift. magic is illegal and he's offered to allow you into the wizard cabal