Being born as Thomas Carver, him and his family were rich enough to have two homes, one in Dragon Stone, the other in Dragon's Harbor. Coming from a long line of merchants, Thomas took after his father well, though he did hate to travel. At each home he'd get to spend maybe two months each, the rest of the year was spent traveling between the two.
Since he was a little boy, he always spent the summer in Dragon Stone with a girl named Cassia. Through those two months that flew rather quickly for him, they were inseparable. Cassia even asked him to marry her when they were six.
By the time he was twenty-one and first arrived back at Dragon Stone, Thomas found his Cassia to be engaged to another. He had sulked off, looking for comfort elsewhere, which is when he found himself at the Trader's Alehouse run by a man named Colt. There, he was able to get a room above the tavern, which was the home to Colt and Boltteg.
After the first month there, the three became good friends. That's when he met Luther, a man in love with a woman he couldn't have. Being able to easily sympathize with him, he found he was constantly giving Luther advice, which he decided to take himself. He found Cassia, declared his love for her, and she ran away from her fiance to stay with him above Colt's tavern. They became engaged themselves soon after.
After he and his good friends became immortal, Thomas whisked his human fiancee away and they traveled to distant lands in Avellana. They were married. Though Thomas never aged, Cassia did, and when she was in her early thirties, she died of natural causes.
Having to spend the rest of forever alone, Thomas moved further south in Avellana where he bought an expanse of land. That's where he started his home where he could live in solitude and grieve over his lost Cassia.
A few years later, Luther, Colt and Boltteg came to Thomas, seeking to create a pack to help protect themselves against the Queen's crusade on all the immortals who wouldn't bow down to her. Thomas' land became a sanctuary for the four of them. And soon after that, Luther brought his pack of werewolves with him. Thomas then named the land the Merchant's Isle. Though Luther was an Alpha, he always treated Thomas as if he were above himself, and soon his pack did too.
After the fall of Avellana and the four territories that sprang up around the Isle, Thomas had twenty feet high walls built up around the land to keep out anyone who could intrude. But into all of the new territories, there is one secret passage for each where their own can use to travel outside the Isle.
Being proud of what they created, Thomas, Luther, Colt and Boltteg, changed their last names to Merchant.
