Well, I'm purposefully keeping Althior's backstory in the dark a bit, but I'll just have a recap here:
Althior was born to the Emorith's, who died after his sister, Lilian's, birth. They were taken in with their grandfather, Olphius Emorith, it was there that Lilian and Olphius died (details to be revealed later on ) Althior, at the young age of 21, decided to put the past behind him and lived on the road. He was gifted with powering things, thus given his topaz. He shrouded his sad past by developing a happy go lucky character. As the grasp of Abraxas thickens, Althior gets darker and darker. He's a guy that, behind his huge, comical grin, now is wondering how you'll die. He's accepted the fate of mortality, and he'll stop at nothing to make the most of his terribly short life.