When the wizard has scary dog privileges
Gronk grew up in a insular pastoral community, but left home at 14 and became a boxing champion in back room gambling rings. He’s since worked his way up to being the shadow leader of an infamous crime syndicate. He’s altruistic at heart, and uses the syndicates power to snuff out all other criminal activity. Under the table, Gronk volunteers in the resistance against the corrupt government and funds their efforts to dismantle them.
Cordelia is the daughter of a notorious noble family, called the Cairds. Her parents were found guilty of treason and she was thrown out on the streets as a child. She scraped a living doing book keeping for gangs before finally earning an apprenticeship under the leader of the Alchemist guild. Out of everything she’d been through, the apprenticeship was the worst thing that ever happened to Cordelia. Despite it all, she’s now a competent alchemist
