The Chronicles of Peredur in Varisia - About the Author

About the author

Peredur Vardis Deverin was born in Sandpoint, on the Varisian Bay, nearly 42 years after its inception and 279 after the founding of Korvosa by Cheliax. Peredur was born the first and only son of Percival and Minette Grey Elzabette Deverin. After his father drowned at the age of six, Peredur was raised by his mother and entered formal schooling at the local chapel. His childhood summers were spent in Grey Manor, his family's country estate, while most of Peredur's winters were occupied with formal schooling by Father Ezakien Tobyn. Shocked by the death of her husband, Peredur's mother Minette threw herself into the bookkeeping and business the Grey Deverin's are well known for. Peredur was taken on as a ward of the Church and his schooling continued in matters religious, philosophical and historical.

Peredur attended the King's Academy in Sandpoint, graduating at the age of twelve with high marks and a merit award for good services to the school. As an academic, Peredur founded and ran the school storyteller's club as well as the Pious Ponderings school newsparchment. After his graduation, Peredur attended secondary school and was apprenticed as a scribe on behalf of Lord and Lady Vardis whose political connections required young Peredur to spend much of his time at home in Sandpoint composing letters and doing bookkeeping.

During what is now called the troubled times, when the church burned down and Father Tobyn perished, Peredur left Sandpoint at the age of 16. Very little is known of the next two years of his life but, by the age of 18, Peredur appears in the histories of the nobility in Magnimar. Peredur had, by that time, learned all the human languages of Varisia, Cheliax and Shoanti and was hired by several factions as a translator and diplomat.

Peredur's first Chronicle was published three months prior to his 21st birthday, once again, in Sandpoint.

The rest of this book is primarily a collection and translation of the Chronicles Peredur himself wrote with a little history and context where necessary as determined by the scribe who pens this.