After an hour of brainstorming, Lancet finished up a backstory that he thought was pretty impressive.
⸢ Event: Born a noble daughter in Crescent City during the rise of the bastion cities, Kestrel rejected the life of a princess and pursued swordsmanship with obsessive devotion. After years of challenging guards and instructors, she climbed the Mountain of Moon until Ugbard, Crescent City's greatest Swordsmaster, accepted her as a student. Under his tutelage she mastered Grace through the blade, defeated a Calamity Dungeon's White Snake Dragons and bound their souls into her twin swords, defended Crescent City during a ten-gate assault, and rose to become one of the greatest Swordmasters of her era. Her legend ended when House Blaze poisoned her, murdered her family, and struck her down with a Gloom Spear before she could claim the duel she had spent her life seeking. ⸥
He sat back once he finished, exhaling through his nose.
That was good. Very good.
Now the motive was clear.
