I’ve decided to try writing in first person and see if that’s any easier. Well, here goes nothing:

My name is Falcao, and I am the Mystic of Cascadia. I have lived a very long life, full of adventure. As is required by my order, at this point in my life I am required to write my memoir so as to pass on my knowledge to the next Mystic of Cascadia. I fulfill this obligation gladly. Though I will tell both of the good times, and the bad, I will at least know it will not have been for nothing.

My story begins when I was but five years old. It was then that I was discovered by the Priests of Cascadia and brought to live in the temple forest of Wy’east. My story begins in the mountain temple of Wy’east and my initiation into the Way of the Mystic.

All of the initiates were brought info the great hall and given a branch from the trees of life. We were taught how to transform the branch into a staff, a walking stick. For some, their staffs would be transformed into a great talisman. It is here, with the story of my talisman that I will begin the story of my life.