I see. I see I see I see.
So~ let's see if this works:
Vyce's immediate family was in the earliest wave of refugees to leave Ala Mhigo. His parents were merchants (though they lost 95% of their assets) and knew Limsa Lominsa was their best hope to find sanctuary without eating dirt. They also knew the twelveswood had some sort of trial for entry, and that Ul'Dah was so populated and busy that the most likely outcome was the life of a pauper. In their greed, Vyce's parents purposefully misdirected some refugees away from Limsa in their travels so that they might raise their chances of reclaiming quality of life. Acquaintances and friends from trade took them in until they could get back on their feet, and over the years they did. At the unapologetic expense of others.
Eventually Vyce's father was found by retribution and beaten to death in the name of Rhalgr. His mother remarried a year later to ship captain, and has been sailing the seas with him since the kids left the nest. She, through means unknown, had managed to become an adept Astrologian, but never revealed who trained her. Not even to her kids. She acts as the ship's navigator. She did teach Thoreaux a little about divination.
Thoreaux apprenticed at the Arcanist Guild after his father's death (in case we haven't established the man was a dick, "No son of mine is going to wield anything but a blade. You're a Vyce. Act like it."), studied a little conjury and thaumaturgy, and eventually managed to be a scholar. At age thirty, he has heard there is a resurgence of Astrologians and is determined to become one. And profit.
So~ let's see if this works:
Vyce's immediate family was in the earliest wave of refugees to leave Ala Mhigo. His parents were merchants (though they lost 95% of their assets) and knew Limsa Lominsa was their best hope to find sanctuary without eating dirt. They also knew the twelveswood had some sort of trial for entry, and that Ul'Dah was so populated and busy that the most likely outcome was the life of a pauper. In their greed, Vyce's parents purposefully misdirected some refugees away from Limsa in their travels so that they might raise their chances of reclaiming quality of life. Acquaintances and friends from trade took them in until they could get back on their feet, and over the years they did. At the unapologetic expense of others.
Eventually Vyce's father was found by retribution and beaten to death in the name of Rhalgr. His mother remarried a year later to ship captain, and has been sailing the seas with him since the kids left the nest. She, through means unknown, had managed to become an adept Astrologian, but never revealed who trained her. Not even to her kids. She acts as the ship's navigator. She did teach Thoreaux a little about divination.
Thoreaux apprenticed at the Arcanist Guild after his father's death (in case we haven't established the man was a dick, "No son of mine is going to wield anything but a blade. You're a Vyce. Act like it."), studied a little conjury and thaumaturgy, and eventually managed to be a scholar. At age thirty, he has heard there is a resurgence of Astrologians and is determined to become one. And profit.
