"My story," Cryce repeated thoughtfully. "When I was young, well younger, I lived with my family in Hyoite. We didn't have the most luxorious existence, but we were content. I had just gotten my first job and got engaged to my childhood sweetheart. We had been together a little over two years by that point."
Cryce pulled out the ring again and turned it over thoughtfully in his hands. He couldn't help but smile as he remembered the look on her face when he had given it to her. Memories such as that were the only thing that could make him smile anymore.
"I was coming home from work one day and.....and I......I found them in the backyard. My mother, my father, my kid brother, my kid sister, and my fiance. They were...."
Cryce paused for a moment to hold back some tears.
"All of their heads were mounted on top of poles. Five poles, all in a row, each with a head of one of my loved ones. Their bodies had been unceremoniously piled in a heap nearby."
Cryce pauses again for the same reason.
"A small blizard hit shortly after. I fell to my knees in the snow and just stayed like that through the blizard. All I had left was the ice and snow. I made a vow to them all. Over the next few years I studied nothing but the art of cryomancy. While my knowledge in other fields of magic are lacking, my mastery over ice exceeds all others'. I will find their murderers, and I will have vengeance. I will track them down to the ends of the earth and slaughter them all with the very same thing that they had left me with: the ice and cold."
