Backstory

Jason has lived in a small farming village just a mile or two north of Amphali, which itself is about 3 miles above Waterdeep. At 13, his father gets sent to hell via succubus, and he wants him back. At first, he tries the Bard College of Valor, he had an inheritance from his father, as he's heard the myth of Orpheus, but after 2 years of trying he realizes he'll never be as good as Orpheus and gives up.

He decides to return to the farm village, and after a few months of working he realizes they don't really need his help as his two younger brothers are old enough to work with the new father, and the mother remarried and doesn't seem to care about pally's father's disappearance. He decides to be taken under the Clergy's wing, which don't really have a large hold on his town, and so he moves to Amphali and studies mythology and the Gods, hoping to find one that can help him get back his father. He does as the clergy asks, but he receives no divine message, so at 17 he quits the clergy and starts to protect caravans going between Amphalia, a few other towns, and Waterdeep. At 19, he begins to guard the road on Sword's coast, and at 20 he realizes one caravan he's protecting is full of alchemic fire flasks, which will be used to siege out a walled village just outside daggerford. He doesn't do anything, as it would be 11 vs 1, and feels a rage while walking back to Waterdeep. On returning home, he finds a shield resting on his nighstand painted, unknown to him, with the symbol of Lathander. He decides to don the shield tomorrow, where he’ll be guarding a caravan to the town of Phandalin.