
Would it work to say he has swore Fealty to one of the major factions and his hope would be to bring the territory under their rule? I was going to go with, his parents escaped with him when the king tried to murder everyone who opposed him. So he would be a refugee from Ala Mhigo to start. This might help in the eventual taking of ala mhigo since he might possibly get support from the locals of that area. But I might end up making him from such an obscure family that no one really knows them.