Lore of Shadow Mage Baird of the Fey
Shadow Mage Baird has been a whiz kid and an alpha nerd his whole life. Making straight As throughout his academic career since kindergarten, graduating from the most prestigious university in the Runiverse with a perfect GPA, then graduating summa cum laude from the best medical school in all the lands, Baird was on track for an impressive career as one of the top physicians in the Forgotten Runes. But the young mage made a decision which would alter the course of his life forever: rather than becoming a medical practitioner, he instead chose the path of the researcher. He went straight from his PhD to a high-paying lab position at Big Potion Megacorp, and that's when things started going downhill.
Baird didn't realize at first that Big Potion was actually an evil corporate behemoth helmed by Forgotten Souls hellbent on world domination...it actually took awhile to figure that out. For the first few years, he had his head buried in the sand, completely dedicated to his work of chemical analysis for new potion formulae. Then he started noticing things in the data...reports of adverse and unusual reactions, but instead of potions being adjusted to reduce these side effects, they seemed to be purposely formulated to amplify them. Thinking there must be some kind of error, he took his findings to his supervisors, but was just told to go back to work and had the office door slammed in his face. Curious by nature, Baird decided to investigate the issue himself, and was rewarded with a surprise late night visit by a hit squad that would've ended in his own death had he not been an accomplished combat mage. He handed in his two weeks notice (more like two seconds notice in his case) the next day and bailed on Big Potion, leaving his cushy job, his fat salary, his unvested stock options, and his luxurious penthouse apartment behind.
Baird decided to start his own health and mana potion company to compete against Big Potion, but despite his vast industry knowledge and copious research experience, it was a much more difficult endeavor than it first seemed. For one, Big Potion apparently has an ironclad patent on the flask design as applied to potion container solutions, which meant he had to package his potions in vials. Unfortunately, aesthetics mattered quite a bit in this case, Runiverse adventurers had already become accustomed to potions in flasks and a potion in a vial apparently seemed much less impressive to would-be customers. Despite superior curative properties, Shadow Mage Baird's potions haven't exactly been flying off the shelves, and to date, his company is barely eking out enough profit to keep the lights on. However, Baird is a determined mage and a hard worker, and he struggles everyday to keep his nose to the grindstone, hoping one day to end Big Potion Megacorp's stranglehold on the curatives industry, and expose their rotten core to all the world to boot.
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