Andraste was born in 443 B.C. in Greece. As a child Andraste was always interested in reading and writing. When Andraste was 16 he began studying under Socrates. Socrates taught him to always question everything and that not everything that he had been taught was right. For years Andraste studied under Socrates and got a job as a scribe around the age of 20. He often was able to look at government related scriptures and had to translate many of them. Andraste at one point..went to the head of Athens. Andraste questioned him about various things and about government. The man got furious and sent him off. Later, guards came to Andraste's house and searched it while Andraste was out in a forest writing. The guards found his drawings and writings. From what they read, Andraste showed rebelious behaviour and a total refusal to the way Athens was ran. When Andraste came home, he was taken away to a slave camp. There he was forced to do slave work. The guards went to his house and burned it down, with all the writings and drawings inside..or at least the ones they found. A few years later, Andraste had walked out during the night and snuck off into the woods. He knew the second they saw him missing, they'd come to find him. While out in the woods he ran into a woman, he asked her where he could find shelter, somewhere to hide. The woman directed him to a small dwelling hidden in the woods. Andraste hurriedly went to seek this place. He was caught by suprise with a sudden pain and overwhelming sense of pleasure in his neck. He passed out from this. When he awakened he was in what looked like a small cottage, the woman he had ran into earlier was there too. She explained to him about how she had turned him. Andraste, although confused, accepted this, and he studied about what he now was under this woman. After learning many things and going through training...Andraste went to Socrates and explained to him what had happened. Socrates told him that the guards who went searching for him the morning after he escaped had said they found Andraste's dead body laying in the forest and brutally murdered. Andraste continued to study under Socrates and became a great scholar. He lived secretly in Socrates' house until Socrates was charged for corrupting young minds, like that of Andraste's. Instead of the truth, that Socrates had freed their minds. Socrates died by drinking the hemlock he was sentenced to die by. Andraste went on studying and furthering his knowledge, he traveled all over the world. One day he ran into Tristan, a vampyre, and Tristan let Andraste stay at his small cottage. This was the first person Andraste had ever trusted since Socrates. The first person who didn't seem so fake. Andraste, who always had lead a solitary life, rode off and travels the world to this very day.
