Faulkner was born in P’Lar, as the only son and youngest child of the only Dark Elf family in the vicinity. His father was a fisherman and carpenter who he barely knew and died in a storm when he was young, and his mother was a Bard and imbued in him a love of music that has remained with him throughout his life. Faulkner was an outcast from a young age, frequently bullied for his appearance, but unlike his two elder sisters who withdrew from social life and tried their best not to draw attention to themselves, the bullying seemed not to faze the young man and in fact seemed to motivate him, creating his mentality of not really caring about negative opinions.
He joined a travelling show during his fifties, and before he left his mother gave him her guitar. Shortly after he left, he received word from one of his sisters that she had passed away, and the guitar that she gave him became his most prized possession as a result.
Faulkner travelled around with the show for a few years, eventually stopping in The Imperial City of Gor’Raj’Ka, where he met Saskia Byrne and entered a relationship with her for some time, but when he discovered that she was pregnant with their child he panicked, unable to cope with this level of responsibility at this point in his life, and fled. Faulkner would not meet his daughter Willow face-to-face, or even know anything about her, until she was effectively a teen, but since finding out about her has done his best to forge a meaningful relationship with her, which has been largely successful.
Faulkner returned to the road for many years following that, never staying in one place, but as he nears middle-age he has begun to think about what could have been, and is beginning to resent the life he has made for himself of being unable to be attached to people and and yearn for something more stable. The years of drinking, fighting, women and song have begun to weigh heavy on his shoulders without any real network of people to support him. As such, he has joined the Crew of the Hunter of the Dawn, hoping that being part of a crew bigger than himself again will truly reignite his lust for life.
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