Redvers was born in Western Salem and is the youngest son of a minor noble family.

From an early age he had displayed a fascination with ancient societies and a desire to explore, but his family attempted to suppress these notions telling him that his lot in life was either the priesthood or the military.

As he grew older Redvers ran away from home several times, though he was always caught and eventually, through sheer frustration, his father bought him a commission with the Salem Militia. Redvers saw action against the Eastern Empire and also fought in the Monarch Wars but eventually he decided that army life wasn’t for him and that adventuring was his true calling.
At the first opportunity he resigned his commission, returned to his family’s estate and announced his decision. His parents never spoke to him again.

With little money, and few possessions beyond the clothes on his back he left Salem and began travelling all over the newly brought together Shards. Eventually the wandering lifestyle took its toll and he settled on Frontier, where he remained for four years (the last eighteen months of which was spent living with the Tribe of the Rat) learning to do things that the nobility back home would never have imagined.

But life among the tribes wasn’t to last… eventually Redvers grew restless and this time with a Rat Shaman in tow he began his travels again. Soon enough he arrived on the Confederacy Isles where news of his exploits spread like wildfire, and it wasn’t long before the Society of Gentlemen invited him for the ‘informal chat’ which eventually led him to become on of their foremost members.