Appearance: Sean is a young man of the age of 25, slightly pale skin, standing at a height of 5'9" feet and weights 160 lb. He has blond hair that falls down to his shoulders, tied in a short ponytail and light blue eyes with a pair of glasses on top. He wears a brown shirt with a red vest on top, a small cap draped over his left arm, barely passing the elbow and covering his left shoulder, a brown belt around his waist with a blue, leather bound tome on his left side, a sword also sheathed underneath it in a way that both can be removed without problem. Sean also wears a pair of traveling, brown pants and a pair of traveling green boots.
Personality: Sean is a curious, studious person. He's someone who find enjoyment in learning and will always ask questions when it involves subjects he does not know. However, this zeal for knowledge means he has a tendency to ask when others don't want him to, which had led him into trouble a lot in the past. Even though he has learned to be more subtle about it, it still causes him problems since he tends to ignore when others are uncomfortable with the questions or don't want to answer due to their own reasons. His biggest fascination is with the occult side of things, that which most wizards and scholars don't dare to trek out of fear and ignorance. Despite his preference for knowledge, he does take his job as a merchant seriously, despite his currently not working as one at the moment.
Background: Sean was born to both a wizard of some renown and his merchant wife, coming from a well-off merchant family in the kingdom of Keoland. His life was one of studies and learning, for his father wanted him to become a great wizard. Yet it was his mother he was closer to, for she treated him more like the child he is, encouraging him to play more. Still, life was well for him in the Barony of Grayhill until his sister, five years younger was born. Elidia being her name, ended up showing far more magical talent than Sean was capable of. As such, his father's focus quickly switched to her, followed by his mother, but the latter still paid attention to him.
So Sean for the first time, found himself ignored by at least his father. His sister, on the other hand, was very competitive and always got annoyed when he showed no interest in competing with her. The only exception was books, which he showed a better aptitude for research, knowledge and lore, whereas Elidia was a bit more impulsive and impatient. But as they became older, their mother started becoming sick. The disease that afflicted her was strong, requiring powerful divine magic, yet their father, being a proud wielder of the arcane arts, refused to even think of asking the local Wee Jas priest to treat his wife. Instead, he used his alchemy skills to create elixirs to heal her, which worked for a while.
But his mother's condition worsened and the siblings did their own research on the disease. That was when Sean, now age 16, found an unassuming tome one day and opened it, despite an initial sense of trepidation. In it was a treatise on darker forms of magic, even showing some curses that could be used and one of those curses sounded suspiciously similar to what his mother was suffering. That night, he and Eliada reconvened to share what they found. But that ended up into a big argument, mostly from his sister, who believed using a dispel magic spell would easily deal with the disease, while Sean believed they'd need to perform an occult ritual to transfer the curse to another recipient and had bought a goat earlier for the job.
But their mother's condition took a turn for the worse and Sean went through with performing the ritual. While he had followed the necessary steps, his sister had also been preparing a spell to dispel the magic of the curse. Needless to say, when both things happened at the same time, disaster struck. No one knew what had happened, only that their mother had died. Their father, furious, demanded to know what happened and both siblings spoke. Once he was done listening, he used a paralysis spell on his son, denouncing him for delving into forbidden lore and threw him out of their home that day. His last sight in that cold, rainy day was to see his sister's expression, that of a far off look, as if she's seen some things she shouldn't have, before she walked back inside.
Sean was forced to sleep on the streets the first few days, before his uncle, his mother's brother ran into him, having heard the news. Taking pity on the now homeless, disowned by his father, young man and took him in, even giving him a job as his assistant peddling wares. For five years, he lived in the Duchy of Gradsul with his uncle, focused on learning how to be a merchant, make sales and connections, and even talk to people. Yet, despite the tragedy in his life, for the first time, Sean had a thirst, a hunger, a desire for knowledge. One he didn't pursue until he finished learning a trade from his uncle at the age of 21.
Now he just needed to start a store and make sales before he could try chasing after lore. But the only thing the young man knew was to research, learn and memorize knowledge. Sean had learned some basic sword skills from his uncle's caravan guards as a necessity to protect himself but nothing else. It was a meeting with a wizard's apprentice that gave him the idea for what to sell. While he had no magical talent, the young man had been very familiar with magical scrolls, the one thing his father had praised him for. So he began obtaining and selling scrolls, which also meant selling tomes and books, essentially using his knowledge of lore to make money.
Sean did as his uncle did and took to wandering, using his merchant skills to sell scrolls, tomes and such things while buying and getting his hand on more esoteric lore, first throughout the Kingdom of Keoland then further beyond as he grew in experience. His hunger for knowledge was sated, as he continued peddling and traveling, yet he never once returned to the Barony of Grayhill since being kicked out of both house and family. Now at the age of 25, he arrived at his next destination, the pert city of Port Torvin unsure of what'll happen or if fate has plans for him.