Elton was born somewhere near Aglarond, exactly where he's not sure. As a child, he and his parents moved around a lot, he didn't really understand why. His parents told him they were avoiding some had people, but that's all they would tell him. One time they traveled to a small village somewhere off the Sea of Fallen Stars. They were planning on staying in the village for the night and heading out the next day. Elton was about seven at the time. That night his parents decided to stop in at the local tavern. While his parents were relieving themselves of some of their bodily fluids (taking a piss), Elton decided to go outside for some fresh air. He was out there for maybe 20 seconds when all of a sudden he was picked up by a couple of red robed individuals, gagged, and thrown over one of their backs. Both red robed individuals appeared to be a little intoxicated. A couple times someone came by them, but then took off really fast in the opposite direction. This didn't appear to be a very nice thing for them to do, as far as Elton was concerned. Why wouldn't they help him? They traveled for a couple of hours, and then made a small camp out in the woods. Elton didn't know much about magic, but it was obvious he was going to learn more than he bargained for real quick. It eventually became apparent that both red robed individuals were having an argument about whose spells were superior. They needed someone to use their spells on. They took turns casting various spells on Elton, torturing him (and discussing whose spell had the greater impact on him). He felt as if he could take no more, it hurt so bad, when both red robes heard a noise further out in the woods. They decided to try and catch whoever it was out there (a second test subject would be nice since their argument hadn't quite been resolved yet, and the first subject was almost dead). At this point Elton fell unconscious, and the next thing he knew he was in a small cabin, with his father and some other man he didn't know. His father informed him that this man is a good friend of his, and that it would be safer for him to stay with this man for a while. His father told him that those robed men were some of the bad people who were after him. Elton was also informed that those two men had to be deceived in order to rescue him, and were still out there somewhere (probably unhappy right now). In order for Elton to be safe, his parents had to lure them away. Some day his parents would be able to come back for him. Elton had very little say in the matter. He started getting very unhappy about them leaving him and expended too much energy and passed out again. The next time he awoke it was just him and that friend of his father's, whose name he found out to be Arnin.

Arnin came to be Elton's mentor in the arts of magic. Elton learned about who the red robed individuals were, much about where they come from, and what they do to people (although he already had a good idea about the latter). He also learned that Arnin and his father used to be part of the red wizards, but went renegade shortly thereafter. His father apparently had done something to the red wizards that they did not seem to like. Elton had a strong dislike of these red wizards, especially the two who abducted him. He thought the best way to get back at them is to fight fire with fire, so he became a fire elementalist. Arnin also taught him how to read and write Thorass and Thavian. One night Elton heard a big explosion, and Arnin jumped up and said "They've found me!". He instructed Elton to leave out through a secret door he had that went underground. He was going to meet Elton in a couple hours at the nearest village, and they were going to go from there. The only problem was the fact that the underground tunnel forked a few times, and Arnin forgot to tell Elton which forks to take. Needless to say, Elton was lost for those couple of hours (and more), and when he finally found his way out, it was morning. Arnin was nowhere to be found in the village, although since Elton didn't show up when he was supposed to, Arnin had no choice but to keep moving.

Elton wants to become the best fire elementalist he can be, in hopes to someday get back at those Thavian wizards who hurt him for no reason other than a stupid argument over whose spells were better, and to be reunited with his family (Arnin included, since he was like a second father to Elton).