🔒 Canon

Before the Shore

Addendum to Nonne · written by his player · his life up to the day on the ship

At a Glance

Source: Player-provided canon. Written by Nonne’s player and recorded as given — not authored here
What: The life the dossier left unwritten: who he was, where he sailed from, and what the altercation was about
Born: A small village on the outskirts of eastern Tohsa — House Seera’s wildlands
Raised, after: By his father’s sister, who married into House Tahlama
Carries: His father’s Tiger’s Eye beads, repaired by his own hand after one orb cracked
The errand: An envoy’s voyage to the Isle of Ehn, carrying a document for a contact there
What he knows now: All of this. The blank he woke with has closed — only the day itself is still held
Status: Fixed — do not revise while writing the story

The Village

Nonne was born on the outskirts of a small village in eastern Tohsa. From a young age, he was taught to make himself strong, to take care of himself because the world was a cruel place. The natural wilds were by far a more forgiving environment than those of man. His parents told him to stay away from the other villagers — especially the children, as they could be very mean and hurtful — and he always wondered why.

Not understanding why his parents kept him away from the others, he surmised that they must’ve had a terrible interaction with them in the past. And so he stayed away, growing a bit isolated.

One day, when Nonne returned home from the woods where he trained his body like his father told him to, he was greeted at the door by a well dressed woman he recognized from a painting his parents had. She hugged him and sat him down. She informed him through tears that his parents were killed in a freak rock slide accident while returning home from a trip. Nonne was devastated. The woman told him that she was his aunt — his father’s sister. She informed him that she would be taking him to live with her, as he still needed some guidance and comfort after losing his parents. Not having much, the only thing of value Nonne took from his home was his father’s Tiger’s Eye Beads, that he recently repaired after one of the orbs was cracked on a journey.

The Aunt and House Tahlama

Going with her, he found out that she had married into House Tahlama, gaining stability and prosperity, where her brother — Nonne’s father — chose the more common folk route of life. Living his teenage years with his aunt taught him how to show kindness to those of all walks of life, understanding society and how to navigate those of noble and common descent. However, not wanting to forget where he came from, he continued to hone his body, often joining the house guard in their daily exercises and trainings. Strengthening body, weapon skills, and endurance, Nonne gained a handful of scars at this time, much to his aunt’s chagrin.

The Voyage to Ehn

As a young adult, Nonne was sent by his aunt on a voyage as an envoy across the sea to the Isle of Ehn to deliver a very important document to a contact in Ehn. However, on the journey, a chore boy on the ship got caught stealing food. Dragging him to the main deck, the crewmen felt that a harsh beating would teach the young man a lesson. Seeing this, Nonne believed that such a young man didn’t deserve such heavy punishment for such a small infraction. As the boy cried out in pain and pleaded the grown men to stop, Nonne tried to get past them and protect the boy. Strong as he was, the multitude of crewmen blocked his path, even shoving him to the ground and telling him to mind his own business. Pleading with them to stop, exasperated and angry at this injustice happening in front of him, Nonne started feeling something inside him start to rumble. His hands started subconsciously clenching and his vision started to turn red. As a high-pitched sound started ringing in his head, he heard a low voice bark from his mouth — “hey!” — a feral, guttural growl start emanating from his throat, getting louder and louder until the men turned around and looked at him in astonishment. The last thing Nonne remembered is a tremendous roar coming loose from his mouth and tendrils of black erupting from his body, slamming into the crewmen. As Nonne’s vision started to fade to black, he heard screams and the sounds of clashing steel.

After the Shore

Nonne woke up in a cot in an unknown place, not sure where he was or even why he was there. Bandages on his body, his head aching from something he couldn’t quite place. A woman comes in and asks how he’s feeling. Nonne tells her he’s doing okay, and asks what happened. She tells him that a woman found him washed ashore, dressed in expensive but torn clothing, wounded and almost dead. They nursed him back to health, trying to keep him from moving as he was having obvious nightmares. Unfortunately, Nonne couldn’t remember where he was from or how he ended up washing ashore. Nobody recognized him. With nothing to go on, for now, Nonne decided to just live in this town that had saved his life, being kind and helping where he could, at minimum remembering that part of his past life.

Whenever he noticed injustices or those hurting others for reasons that he deemed unfair or cruel, his temper would start to flare, his fists clench, and his head would start to burn. The sounds of muffled screams flashed like a foggy nightmare that felt like memories putting pressure on his skull from the inside. This terrified him, scared of what this was and what it all meant. Most of the time, this led to Nonne walking away from conflict, afraid of what he might do should these moments become too hard to hold in.

Deliberately Unwritten

Open threads — absent, not settled

The blank has closed. The amnesia he woke with covered his whole life; it no longer does. Nonne knows everything on this page. What the second self still keeps is the day itself — the altercation, the shift, what the magic did, how he left the ship.

The town is not named, and it may not be Onda. This page says a woman found him and a town nursed him. Nonne’s dossier and Trill’s both say Trill found him on the shores of Onda. The two are not obviously the same event and are recorded here unreconciled — whether the town is Onda, whether the woman is Trill, and whether he washed ashore once or twice are not settled. Do not pick one in passing.

The aunt’s name, the village’s name, what the document said and who in Ehn was to receive it, the chore boy’s fate, the ship’s name, and how long he lived in the town before the campaign opens are not yet written. So is which parent carried the shift — though the warning to stay away from the villagers sits beside that gap, and neither parent lived to explain it.

Canon is frozen once written; silence here is a gap to be filled in a later entry, not a fact that these things do not exist.