"You can run from fate but never get that far for in the end it will find you for this is who you are."
Paul:
Born in a small town to Anthony and Helen Onasi Paul was little more than the son of a moderately prosperous merchant. His father came from a line of merchants and traders, he would by things from passing caravans outside the town and return to it to sell them the next day. Helen was a distant cousin of the small nation's royal family, not related enough to even have a marginal claim to the thrown unless something catastrophic were to occur. That never happened however. Both Anthony and Helen were murdered and robbed while passing through the streets of a larger city that Anthony had been hoping to move his business to. Paul was only five years old at the time and escaped before witnessing the death of his parents. For the next several years the boy spent his time on the streets, scrounging for food and taking offerings from kind passersby though they were few and far between.
After some time, during the tenth year of his now unenviable life Paul was discovered by a travelling Sage, a master of Magic and a kind hearted man. He saw potential in the boy, recognizing his unique abilities, and took him in. For almost five years Paul trained under this nameless Sage until one day he disappeared without explanation and without warning. Only a few days prior had the aged man given Paul a Prophecy and prediction of the boy's future, the Prophecy being that he would decide the fate of an entire race with a single choice he would make and the prediction that he could become the most powerful Brawler-Mage to ever live. Devoted to his teacher and all that he had learned Paul gathered some of the books from the tower he had been training in and set of on foot to try to find him.
Over the years his wanderings led him into encounters in several small countries with bandits, elves and numerous other races until at the age of twenty he made it to Wing City. There he has stayed. Overtime Paul has had a number of life changing experiences. Not long after his arrival he had a cursed necklace forced onto him intended to enslave him to its owner, an unforeseen side effect increased his strength and power. After he was freed he retained this increase. He befriended and became Bonded to the hatchling Ichiro, and his story continues...
Ichiro:
Ichiro was born to an Unbonded female and sired by an unknown male. Ichiro's mother some how found her way into the forest surrounding Wing City, meaning she was likely an abandoned hatchling of a Drake passing through the area as her species is not native there. During her third year of her species' short natural life cycle Ichiro was being raised by her until her life was taken by hunters. Without his mother and less than a year hold hatchling Ichiro fell into sickness and malnutrition. A young traveler found the drake on the side of the road and took him into Gambit's Bar in Wing City where a local fairy cured him of his illness. It was in this bar that Paul found the drake that would come to be his closest friend and baited him over with some food. Taking him in and raising him as a pet until Ichiro initiated a Bonding with Paul, joining their souls and linking them for life, and his story continues...