"Well first off, I'm no dashing hero. I tell enough story's to know one." He said taking his seat looking at Silk. He sipping his tea, the smell gracing his nostrils with wisps of smoke that made memories of home fling forward in his mind. "I was born in to a house that is very close to the Duke's family. Meaning that we had money and power, add to that parents who take pride in politic challenge and you have a recipe for my home. Being the oldest I supposed to train to become a knight, however I could never hold a lance right and to much armor constrained mobility. I did love being on horse back through." Shaking his head he looked back to Silk having trailed off his eyes wandering.

"I had been practicing magic in secret and when I showed my parents well they were proud, extremely in fact of there son being a mage and swordsman. However I wasn't happy, I didn't want to end up a court wizard so my mother sent away for a teacher, a brilliant Plegian tactician arrived weeks. She trained me from age ten up in how to read people, how to weave the battlefield, and how to win a game that's un-winnable." He said thinking back on his master and her wise lessons, she had been more like mother than his actual mother had come to think of it.

Matthew finished his tea and walked in to the kitchen, he had an idea for vegetable soup and he had to know if Silk liked carrots. He was pretty sure she did he just needed to double check it. "So I competed in a tournament that year, I won it to. Most of those nobles don't understand killer instinct or trick maneuvers they expect straight forward fighting. So after that my parents decided to marry me off to some girl I had never met. Saw her picture she was cute but not my type, I heard she was a guest of honor from another Nation, wanted me to be her husband because no other warrior she seen could match me. Something about how I unique and more capable than others, Chon'Sin women like strong men. Though being a cute red helps to, in some case's." He chuckled as he peeled potatoes and chopped veggies, he had washed up and begun cooking as he spoke to her, a pot of water just starting to bubble behind him. "Veggie soup for dinner, it's all fresh, mind cutting up the carrots for me? Feel free to have a few."