Outside of Magnolia. { Not far from the lake, actually. Maybe on some level... } He was alone. He found me, all by himself, as if he knew who I was and where I would be. Somehow, he'd raised himself. He'd been surviving on petty thievery. And yet... I could feel the power radiating from him. It had the potential to surpass even my own. I brought him to Alvarez, ordered that he be given a full education and taught to use his magic.

He was a Shield of Spriggan by the time he turned twenty.

{ The youngest ever. In time, he was a symbol of the Empire's might. Indeed, the month of August in Alvarez became a month associated with calamity and disaster because of him. Entire armies surrendered just from the mere possibility that he could show up.

Bosco became a contemporary example of why. }