ONE: A Fatherless Child
Calix Anselm Orfeo
It had become a trend among the upper class in the years of Emperor Anselm's rule to give a child two names, one of their own and one from their father.
The child, Calix, however, received two names from two fathers.
Anselm for the great emperor, his mother's husband, and Orfeo, for his biological father.
Ironically, Orfeo, derived from the old language root ὀρφανός, meant fatherless. In other words, the child's name was Calix, son of royalty, abandoned by his fathers.
And as his name so somberly suggested, Calix was unwanted, unloved and uncared for since the time of his birth. Whisked away with hardly a glimpse of his mother's face, the infant prince was left to be raised by his kinsmen in an obscure underground world.