Editing Tomasz Mwrr (section)

==Description==
The second-born of five children, Tomasz grew up in his elder brother's shadow. Alaric Burghe, the eldest, took after their mother and was Blooded under the shadow of the Bear, and was a burly mountain of a man, with a ready laugh, rippling muscles, and a complete and utter disdain for sophistry and cunning, displaying no hint of any ambition greater than to have a singular province on which to subsist and endless access to hunting grounds and wilderness to tame. Tomasz grew up idolising him, but an awareness that he would never live up to the other's promise of raw power and unbridled bonhomie, devoted himself instead to esoteric study and flourished, distinguishing himself at the great Academy at Q'naldinir. 

Upon graduating with the highest honours, he was informed by his family that he would follow in the footsteps of his father, and was accepted in the House of the Serpent, where his love of the occult and strange and the hidden was fed. Interest quickly became obsession, and when the opportunity to settle the untamed Black Isles (and potentially spend the rest of his life researching the cursed sorcerer-king ruins there) came up, Tomasz was quick to bring every ounce of influence and wealth his family possessed to bear in order to secure the position.

There was, of course, no way either his family or his House was about to turn him loose on a province he had no real interest in running without some insurance. He was informed that the final formality before he could be pronounced Baron Verrara of the Black Isles would be to marry Niassa Steele, a promising young Elk noble whom he was promised would oversee all the tedious administration that came with his position to allow him to concentrate more fully on his studies. With some resignation, he assented. 

He never expected to find in her a deeper enchantment than even sorcery.