It begins as it always does...

...In a dungeon.
     I was aware that I was in a jail cell from the moment I awoke, but I was unsure of how I arrived there. I did not recall committing any crimes, nor do I remember any trials or officers arresting me. When I thought back on it, I realized I couldn't think back on it.
     I couldn't remember anything from before I woke up.
     While this was distressing, my primary emotion at the time was anger, directed at an idiotic dark elf berating me from the cell across. Making comments about my Nordic background and idle threats about what the guards were coming to do to me. I would have brushed it off, but at just that moment I heard guards approaching from the steps nearby. Panicked, I ran to the back of my cell and fruitlessly clambered toward the window.
     "This is it", I thought, "I'm going to die in a horrible jail cell in the gods know where with no memories."
     There was no worse side of the mangy bedroll to wake up on.
     But considering that you are reading this now and it is in the past tense, I suppose you realized I did not die. No, as it turns out, the guards had no idea why I was in the cell either and simply needed to smuggle the emperor out of the palace by means of a secret series of tunnels hidden behind a wall of the cell. Like people do. 
     I followed the guards and the emperor into the tunnels and, oddly, no one seemed to mind much, which was weird considering where I was previously located. In a cell. In what appeared to be maximum security.
     But I chose not to question it. After all, It's not as though I am aware of what I did and if they didn't know either, all the better.
     However, their opinion of me seemed to switch from mildly annoyed because I was following them around to severe disdain, after I just sort of watched one of their members be killed by an assassin. So after a short jaunt down some stairs, they left me for dead.
     At just that moment, a nearby section of the wall began to shake. I thought it was another secret passage, or maybe that the tunnels were collapsing. Both were sort of correct.
     A massive rat jumped through the wall.
     I won't describe my series of girlish screams and panicked yelps as I ran through the caves that the rat came from. I will tell you there were zombies, goblins, and more giant rats inside of it though. And that I ended up back in the tunnels where I found the emperor and his guards, still on their way out.
     After the emperor kindly ordered them not to kill me and handed me this sweet amulet thing, he was promptly murdered by some insane cult member that came through yet another secret wall passage. The guards seemed less peeved at me about this one, and even gave me the key to the sewers so I could leave. I think it was more so I wouldn't be in their way anymore.
     I headed off. More goblins resided in the sewers, thusly, more screaming and flailing about was done on my part. But then I saw the grating, the light of day emanating from between it's rusting bars and was uplifted. I was free from my prison and free from whatever crimes I had committed, still unknown to me!
     Fresh salt air greeted me as I stepped forth from the sewers. A massive landscape stretched in front of me, beckoning for adventure. I could not resist it's call.
     Directly across the water were ruins of a once great civilization. Oh yes, and a camp of bandits. Completely unarmed, I froze, hoping they wouldn't spot me. Which of course they did, and I was subsequently chased around their camp with an axe. As I was dodging a swing from the blade near their bedroll, something caught my eye. There was a book there. Plain, brown, slightly worn, nothing special. But I felt like I needed to have it, so I snatched it up.
     Still on the verge of having my head cut off, I decided the best course of action would be to head toward the massive city I just noticed was behind me. Long chase story short, the city guards killed the axe maniac and I took his clothes, because I was still in prison rags and he wouldn't need them.
     This is where my adventure really started, standing outside of the city gates, undressing another man and looting his corpse. At this moment, just inside a list was being finalized. And my life was about to change.