Adopted by Axtklinge.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Murdyaev, was born near Kislev into an aristocratic military family. Because of his abnormal bulky size (and those two things that kept growing in the head, despite his constant "shaving"...) he spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely. He read Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Karl Franz and with only fourteen years old he already excelled at several languages (some forbidden or not even known to mankind).

Murdyaev decided on an intellectual career and entered the Kislev University. This was a time of revolutionary fervour among the students and the intelligentsia and Murdyaev became a devote Existentialist.
Very few years later he was arrested in a student protest, and because of his excessive use of blunt violence towards the authorities, his fellow protesters and pretty much everyone around wearing red fabric, and this lead to being expelled from the University.

Later his involvement in illegal activities as a Bouncer-Philosopher at a local Inn (The Roasted Rooster), led to several "three years" of internal exile in the Northern Wastes Penal Facilities, where his true love for words, writing, and existentialism came to blossom in its purest form: "Why Mu?", a fifteen volume compendium of "Mu-wisdom" that would never be truly understood or appreciated by his peers, and that would end up leaving him homeless and penniless.

In hopes to preach some of his wisdom (along with free hot meals), he came to accept the invitation to play for the "Home of Abandon Demons", something he had never considered before, but that he could not pass at his present situation...