As a young child Collin was perfectly normal. He loved to play outside, eat bugs, throw mud, and everything else little boys love. But he also had a strange fascination with magic and mayhem. His parents thought he had an overactive imagination and as such paid it no heed. This was a mistake on their part as the young boy of age six found himself deep in a public library. His goal was exploration, pretending he was wondering though a mystic land, when he suddenly come to a door that said "DO NOT OPEN" and decided it was a magical barrier for which he needed to surpass.

By using extreme mystic powers, opening the door with the door knob, Collin found his way into the secret room where all manner of mystic books were kept. In reality the books were merely old or rare books that the library was trying to restore or keep in good condition. But Collin found one book that was different from the others. It had a leather cover with silver markings. Upon opening it the first thing the boy saw was a picture of a man bowing before several dragons arranged in a circle. But because of his young age Collin could not read the text that went along with the picture. So he smuggled the book under his shirt and left the library, heading straight home to stare at the picture for hours.

Knowing that the only way he'd learn anything was to be able to read the book young Collin, whose mind had always been exceptionally sharp, secretly taught himself how to read with Dr. Seuss books. Which his mother read to him every night before bed and every morning upon waking up. She thought he was just really concentrating on the story, but in reality he was following every word she said and matching it to the words on the page. After several months Collin understood enough of the words that went along with the caption of the dragon picture to read that the man was an elf requesting permission from the dragons to study a form of draconic magic. This idea intrigued the young boy and he became obsessed with dragons.

Soon the boy dreamed of nothing but dragons and magic. He began finding every book he could on the subject. His parents where ecstatic that their boy of six was learning to read so quickly. Just on his seventh birthday Collin discovered another passage in the old book from the library. This passage described a ritual to summon a dragon council and request permission to learn draconic magic. It was essentially an explanation of what the elf did to get to the point the picture showed.

Excitedly, young Collin tried the ritual, and failed many times. But then one night the young boy had an extremely vivid dream that he met with a council and they granted him permission because the dragons were impressed with him and they could tell that he had a very strong bloodline with a draconic backing. Upon waking from the dream the boy was extremely pleased that he had a dream such as this, but didn't think anything of it because it was only a dream. Several days passed and he began to feel extremely giddy, as if energy was building up in him and he couldn't stop it. Then one day he made a wish in the form of a rhyme and was surprised when the wish came true. Instead of his peanut butter and jelly sandwich having jelly, like moments before, it had honey!

Overwhelmed, the young boy fled to his room and began studying the book more. Upon opening the book he found that it was filled with odd script that seemed to make no sense at first. But after studying it longer he began to see patterns in the script. Eventually, he could make sense of each individual character and knew what each one meant, and what they meant when strung together. Young Collin spent hours and days studying the strange characters, which be came to know as runes, and finally learned that he could use them to perform magic. The runes could be used on their own to form spells that worked in a preset way or they could be used in conjunction with his will to make his wished spells more powerful.

Unfortunately, such power does not mix well with such youth. Before long the young Collin of age seven was casting spells for everything, using more magic than is wise and not being careful about who saw. His parents were in denial, saying that things just happened in coincidence around him, but his friends became scared of him and stayed way, and other adults wouldn't let their children play with him. This only caused Collin to study more and practice more. Eventually, the dragon council came to him in his dreams again, but this time they warned him that if he continued his ways he would be stripped of his power and shamed before dragon kind.

This threat scared Collin and he stopped his shenanigans for a while. But eventually he started again and on his eighth, when a bully tried to pick on him for his strange ways, Collin cast a spell that forever changed his life. Not more than two weeks ago his mother had bought him and sword off eBay for his birthday. The sword rested in his bedroom, but because the bully scared him Collin cast a spell to summon the sword to him. This scared the bully and his parents. But it had more dire consequences.

That night Collin dreamed of the dragon council again, but this time he was on trial. They said that he had been warned and still disobeyed him. They were trying to decide on a punishment for him and would not listen to his excuse that the bully was going to beat him up. When they decided on a punishment for him it was something that Collin did not understand and something that had never been done to a Human before. The dragon council had another issue they needed to deal with, recently and in another universe, a young dragonmaster had tried to take over the world with the use of magic and dragon power. He was caught and being maintained in a state of stasis, but a soul could not be kept in a body that was in stasis without the body and soul dying.

So as punishment to both Collin and the dragonmaster, whose name was Ruinian, the dragon council shredded Collin's soul and transferred Ruinian's soul to the body of the Human boy Collin. But because Collin's soul was not completely gone he retained his identity and was left with no emotions and a being locked into his mind that hated him. This punishment also had the effect of causing young Collin to lose all memory of his previous life and the Draconic magic he'd studied so hard to learn. But with the guidance of Ruinian, who wasn't always or even very often helpful, Collin came to understand who his parents were and to emulate emotion so that he could survive in his world.

After living several years with Ruinian locked in his mind, which surprised the dragon council because they thought Ruinian would destroy the boy and both would perish, Collin began to find ways to get along in life. He still studied magic, but could not perform any himself. He did find that he could use the runes to cast preset spells, but these were very limited because they had been created hundreds of centuries before and weren't exactly up-to-date with today's social forms and technology. Collin also discovered that Ruinian had vast amounts of knowledge he could share, once Collin got past the lies, and that he could reach through Ruinian to access the dragonmaster's home realm. This allowed Collin to find a way to summon a dragon, which after the initial surprise and mayhem, Collin learned to control and use.

Many years later, after a life rife with turmoil and wrong choices, Collin was approached by a main claiming to work for the government and requiring the services of Collin's particular skills. Not trusting this man Collin asked what part of the government and the man told Collin that he came from a world set apart from this one and that it was in need of heroes. Most of the government's experiments to create super soldiers had failed and now they were using some alien technology to travel between worlds to find real supers to battle the problem. Collin liked the idea of finally doing something right with his life and so went with the government man, despite Ruinian's protests.

At age twenty-six Collin was trained to fight by the government of another world and to use his particular gifts to help the people of this world. Never again did Collin think about the life he had left, or anyone in it. His entire existence was dedicated to getting the job done in this other world. Quite often his methods were brutal or unconventional, maybe even on ethical, but the government, being a government, turned their head because he was good at his job.