Born in the squalor of Stronghold's narrows, Paris has been well-acquainted with hardship since birth. His mother suffered illness and remained bedridden for much of his childhood, and his father worked himself to the bone until the family business folded. Without means to provide for his family, Paris saw his father down in liquor and gambling debts while his mother's health deteriorated, and his bereaved father did not long survive her death. Orphaned at the fresh age of fourteen, Paris learned to survive on his wits alone, and he escaped the oppression and despair in Stronghold the first chance he had. Survival beyond those walls proved no less dangerous, but Paris garnered a reputation for himself among the smuggler rings as a self-made con artist, plying his trade with them in the years since then.
