Melin is a young hunter, living in the mountainous western part of the kingdom of Dasarthia. Melin's father, himself a rather good hunter, died when Melin was just a teenager, leaving him in charge of his father's blind husband, Ela, his son and Melin's brother Tetin.
Melin's liege, Count Bresu, declared his desire for trophies of a certain black-hoofed stag. As the animal grew scarce due to over-hunting, the count became more and more irritable and demanding. In the end it was just Melin and his great skills which were able to provide the trophies. Knowing thins, Bresu kidnapped Melin's family to force him to go up the mountains again, even with winter nearing and Melin's life endangered by journeying into the Ridge mountains.
It was only with the help of the captain of Bresu's own guard, Karu, that Melin rescued his step-father and brother. The four then ran away from the grasp of the Count. Melin and Bresu were clear that there was something more than a collector's obsessions moving Bresu's desire for samples of the Black-hooved stags.
While it is likely that Melin will never meet Tristan, Val and the others, they are unknowingly tied together in a conspiracy nobody in the continent has yet discovered...
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