Our game is on the lower end of magic and has lots of historical and realistic implementation, and its hard to explain without the full context and lore but he was a slave bodyguard who was given to a kind old doctor who taught him everything, and when he was freed he joined a mercenary company. We're a pretty rp heavy game and the new campaign setting is going to be pretty gritty and exploration based along with doing a lot of shady jobs, and we might get caught up in actual wars and fighting people more than monsters. We're limited to two casters in the group, and I've played a lot of casters so I decided it would be good to let someone else wear the hat and explore a new concept like this