geist

The man who would become the geist Caliban was an outcast in his homeland; suffering from the condition now known as epilepsy, he was rejected by his people in his home country. As a result, he was forbidden from marriage, denied work, and driven away from shelter. He became a bitter man, forced to beg on the street, and even eventually fled far from home to start anew, hiding his medical condition from his new community.

Finding some small measure of success, he was pleased for a time; despite this, though, he was still a profoundly unhappy man, stricken with chronic illness he struggled to hide and far from the place he knew as home despite his mistreatement. Then, the disease struck, a crushing seizure that ended in his death; bitter and angry, he clung to that rage at the disease that stole his life, even as he became more than a mere spirit.