Nim was born in the village Talonford, approximately 80 miles northeast of Pangoria. He lived there with his family, his father being a traveling merchant, until a fateful day during his 17th year. A priest of Orkist came to his village while his father was away on business, and started preaching to the village. Nim had a strong curiosity and was listening intently. Nim asked some questions of the priest, trying to better understand what he was saying, but the priest was misinterpreting the questions and answering in such a way as to make it appear that Nim was trying to tease him. For instance, one of the questions Nim asked was, “So, if the hells burn with fire, and Orkist is a god of fire, is Orkist a god of the hells?” The priest responded that Orkist’s fire was a pure cleansing fire. Nim pointed out that all fire can be considered a cleansing fire, unless it was burning a compost heap, and what was the difference with Orkist’s fire. The villagers around him laughed. The priest, however, was not laughing. He began defensively stating the difference, but none of them seemed logical to Nim, and he pointed out these flaws to the priest. Finally, after spluttering for several minutes about how it was different, and that was that, the priest retired to the inn he was staying at in a mad walk.

Late that night, while Nim and his family were asleep, Nim awoke to be surrounded by smoke. He quickly called out, while grabbing his younger sister off her bunk above him. He ran out of the house, screaming the whole way, carrying his sister to safety. He looked around, and realized his mother hadn’t come out yet. Some of the villagers were running towards the central well, to try to combat the blaze. Nim rushed back into the house to try to find his mother. The house was already starting to come apart, and finding his way through the house was difficult. Finally, he made it to his parents’ small room, and found that his mother was on the floor, unconscious, most of her clothing burnt or burning away. Nim paid no heed as he picked her up, and ran back through the main room back outside. He cried for help, and people came to his aid, helping pat out his mother’s burning clothing (and his own). He lay her down carefully, to see that she had been badly burned, but was still breathing.

Another villager came running up and told the people trying to help Nim and his mother that the priest was nowhere to be found. Nim cursed Orkist and his hellish priests, and looked around. A water line was already formed, and people were working furiously to put out the fire, which threatened to spread to nearby homes if not contained quickly. Nim left his mother in the care of his sister and some neighbors and rushed to join the line.

After the fire was finally extinguished, Nim came back and nearly collapsed from his efforts. He, too, was covered in burns, some serious. His mother had still not gained consciousness, but when she did, she would be in unbearable pain, as he could see the extents of her burns.
A neighbor took them in for the night, and he was able to tend to his burns. For the next two days, he stayed with his mother, treating her burns as best he could. The village herbalist brought herbs to help ease their pain, and when his mother finally woke, she was delirious both with pain and the herbs to fight the pain. Nim and others tried for a couple of days to try to help her, but everyone silently knew that Nim’s mother just wouldn’t last much longer.

Just as Nim was resigning himself to losing his mother, hope came in the form of another man. This man introduced himself as Brother Rayden, and asked if he could help. After Nim’s assent, he carefully laid his hands on Nim’s mother, and her burns seemed to melt back into pink skin, right before his eyes. Then Brother Rayden turned and healed Nim in a similar fashion. Finally, the exhaustion of the last couple of days hit Nim like a horse, and he fell asleep.

When he woke up and realized what had happened, he climbed out of bed and rushed out to find out if his mother had recovered, which he discovered with delight that she had. He then went to the inn where Brother Rayden was staying. Nim went and found him and talked with him at length. Brother Rayden explained that he believed that he was to preach and use the power of Danica for the greater good of all. After a lengthy discussion, Nim asked if he could travel with Brother Rayden, and see if he could also become a priest. Brother Rayden agreed to take him back with him to the capitol, if it were okay with Nim’s parents. While Nim was waiting for his father to return, he spent his available time with Brother Rayden, talking with him about the duties of a priest and the life he might be expected to live. When Nim’s father returned from his trip, he and Nim’s mother agreed that Nim could go with Brother Rayden.

After being accepted by the Danicans, Nim studied hard for many months before finally being appointed as a Brother himself. Shortly after his appointment, he was invited to heal during the arena tournaments. While having little taste for people hurting each other for the pleasure of others, he was eager to help heal those unfortunate to take nasty wounds. One match, in particular, turned his stomach. A large man faced a small man. In a particularly nasty turn of luck, the large man cleaved his shield arm. The small man danced about, laughing about this, and taunting him further. Then the small man proceeded to get a few other lucky nicks in, obviously severing important tendons right through the gaps in the armor. The large man stoically continued to try to fight, showing great courage and tenacity, but it was apparent that he was bested by luck fairly early on. After the small man proceeded to nick him to complete helplessness and gloating over his fallen body, the priests proceeded out. The small man raised his arms in victory, playing to the crowd. When the priests reached the large man, the small man came over and gloated some more before turning back and playing up to the crowd again. The priests attended to the prone figure.

Mere days later, Nim was called to go on a dangerous mission with several other priests. Much to Nim’s surprise, when he and the other priests arrived to go on the mission, there were the large and small man standing ready to go on the same mission. A crazy wizard began waving his hands about and suddenly a black wall of darkness appeared in mid-air. He cried, “Quickly, everyone in!” and jumped in just behind the large and small man.

What ensued after would ensure many months of nightmares for poor Nim. As they rushed through the dark, they were attacked on every side. Danica did not fail them, though, and Nim was able to heal many people. They pushed into a wicked looking building, and proceeded to cut their way through a host of dark skinned creatures inside. When the battle reached a large chamber, chaos ensued. A large black creature appeared and many people panicked, not knowing friend from foe. Many people fell, and were left behind. It was frenetic to try to keep people alive, and it simply was not possible to save everyone. It was also not possible to carry many of the wounded. Those who fell behind were lost to the overwhelming force that the enemy brought to bear.

Finally, at a point that Nim thought all was lost, the crazy wizard managed to do whatever it was he was here for, and called for everyone to retreat through the portal, it being on the verge of collapsing. Many more people were lost in the attempt to retreat through the portal, Nim nearly being one of them. Shortly after Nim made it through the portal, it shut behind him. The wizard simply said, “Well, that’s that, then. Let’s go get a bite to eat.” At first, there was stunned silence, and then people began to laugh, happy to have made it through alive.

After returning to the cathedral, Nim was called by the Master, and thanked for his service to the order, the city, and even the world. Nim was given the assignment to travel with the group known as Griswold’s Irregulars, the group that had just seen him to hell and back, and go to Tristan, where a rebellion against the government and the church was secretly forming. Nim was asked to go and observe, and see if he could defuse the revolution before it turned bloody. Griswold’s Irregulars were already considered somewhat of a legend down there, so traveling with them would help avoid being assassinated or targeted directly by the rebellion.