Born to a moderately wealthy merchant family in Bresc, a city in Vespara, Isidore disappointed his family early and often. While they took to their letters and books, their mind wandered more often to the world that lay beyond the city and could instead be found in the wild places yet named and discovered.Â
Try as their parents might, they had no interest in taking up the family trade. Better to sell the fools out in the wild their equipment and their wagons rather than be the fool who purchased them was advice lost to Isidore.
Hoping to eliminate these desires entirely, their parents apprenticed them to a local bookprinter at an early age. It had the inverse result. Here they encountered pamphlets and gazetteers describing the far flung frontiers of the Empire and the peoples who lived there. At night Isidore envisioned unique locales, forgotten grottoes, and vast tracts of untouched wilderness.
At sixteen the opportunity to see their dreams made manifest appeared. The Imperial Geographical Society had come to the city seeking new recruits capable of reading and writing. Isidore leapt at the chance. They would be taken on as a Junior Assistant and placed under the tutelage of an Expeditionary Quartermaster travelling Northwards.Â
Multiple expeditions and six years later, they would find themself a full fledged member of the Society bound for the freshly annexed West March. The chaos of war had trailblazed new roads, destroyed bridges, erased villages, and changed the very fabric of the realm. Detailed reports and censuses would be needed to truly document the new order of things, and Isidore would be foremost among those tasked with seeing it done. As such, their posting would begin with attending the feast in Whitehurst in Spring 1022, one meant to commemorate the freshly minted peace and introduce them to who they would be working alongside in the years to come.
One such individual would be the Armicustos Septimus, the armorer of Lord Centurion Edwin Consus' entourage. As rumors of missing caravans and disappearing patrols increased in frequency over late 1022 and early 1023, they would work together to find a solution. As a result, they would pilot a new organization known as the Administratum, headquartered in Goldenfold and to be tested with a contingent of reinforcements from Hadria en route to Schlosswald Garrison.
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