Jace

Jace was originally summoned as a witch's familiar. A cat, like many others, but different all the same. Eventually he was given the name Jace after he ate the witches Jace the Mind Sculptor, Magic the Gathering card. Eventually the witch decided to attempt a spell she had been working on for some time. It was an attempt to make the familiar into an actual sapient being.

Concerned with a few things, the witch adjust the spell to make her familiar a little easier to control once he became sapient, and away she went with it. The spell worked perfectly. The cat was no more, and in it's place was a person, the resemblance to his cat form uncanny to those that knew him before.

Years went by and Jace and his witch lived in peace, though it was a false pretense. Jace knew he was basically a slave. Created to do her bidding and nothing more. So he eventually stole the ring that he was bound to, that kept him from leaving her side, and ran.

Over the next few year, Jace lived on the street, squatted in houses, and did what he could to survive. He was eventually picked up by a mob and forced to work for them under threat of death. He was trained in multiple forms of martial arts while there and generally kept around as a beating post. Finally having enough of it, he intentionally botched a job that landed him in jail, just to get removed from the mob. This only lasted so long as their influence still reached him there. The difference was here he was on equal footing and could hold his own.

Eventually, Jace decided he had had enough, and broke out of jail. It was as simple as blinking out, and leaving. Travelling quickly, he made his way across the country, falsified new papers, and found his way to Polaris Pass.