A juvenile swordsman sent from his snowy village tucked behind a wall of mountains to the far north of Regnum Borealis, Talidan the Swordsman-in-training had no idea he would be thrown helplessly to the four winds. Sent off on a journey to prove his worth, he ended up lost in a world where not all was as it seemed on the surface. As he traveled west from his hometown, he stumbled upon the strangest of corpses and a cold-hearted phantasm who would ironically assume the role as an adviser and close friend. With the spirit's power, the boy managed to overcome the looming obstacle that was the gate that separated the northernmost portion of the continent from the rest of the landmass.
Arriving in the first town he would ever see, the young man was itching to prove himself a capable protector and swordsman. Without any heed to warning or self-preservation, he recklessly assailed a bandit's stronghold in hopes of stopping their frequent raids upon the town. This challenge almost ended in disaster, but he escaped in the end with a slave girl who wielded a mysterious power -- a witch -- and a vendetta placed upon him by the local banditry. The female Practitioner reluctantly agreed to accompany Talidan upon his quest, unsure where else to go, and the pair moved on to the east.
Armed with little more than an old stallion and a worn wagon, both of whom had seen better days, he continued to pursue his goal of meeting the rainbow-feathered bird that supposedly roosted far, far to the east at the peak of a tall mountain range. He was only beginning to grasp the nature of magic, the power he himself wielded, as he heard rumor of a fiery-haired witch who burnt a tavern to the ground and stole an old heirloom sword from a retired, elderly knight. Torn with whether-or-not to believe such a strange tale, he eventually was dragged into an equally bizarre debacle revolving around his silent comrade, Yui. Traveling a few days yet again to the north, off-course from his destination, Talidan met an ancestral nature spirit who laid claim to the surrounding lands.