Axel the Sot

Axel was born unto an impoverished family on the outskirts of a small port town known as Elismere, in the year 1507. When asked of his boyhood, he stated, "When I was a lad, we were so poor, thieves would break into our hovel and leave things. We were so broke we could only afford rickets in one leg." Indeed, life around the hovel was hard, and Axel did not make it any easier by trying to help out. He says, "As a child I was quite useless. I could not do anything right, and fixing the hole in my father's favorite seat was a classic example.