Captain's Log
An account by the scholar, Pierre vos Luperion of Tavnazia, of the Early Years of the Legend of the Lost Boys.
The stories say that it all began in Bastok. Dusty records dating back since before the First Battle of Konschtat will tell a scholar that the family Loell always lived in a house near the docks in Port Bastok, one of the burrows dug out of the stone where the Airship terminal now stands. They were known shipping merchants and fishermen, with a market stand very near their ship itself, offering Gugru tuna of the finest quality to the citizens who found their way to Port in the early dawn.
During The Crystal War, Taren Loell, a noted sailor and ship captain, offered his services to the Bastokan Navy. He sailed to Tavnazia, helping to evacuate refugees from the stronghold, where he met Lila, his later wife. They managed to escape the devastation by sea, returning to Bastok, where, two years later, Lila gave birth to a boy, Keir, their only child. Taren settled down as a fisherman, taking to sea for long lengths of time. Their lives were quiet until eight years later, when a small upsurgence of the Bastokan Blight made its reappearance in the city. Lila was among the casualties of the plague, before Bastok's alchemists were able to get it under control. Four years later, Taren Loell and his ship were lost at sea.
From there, records lose track of the family's only survivor, Keir. Reports from the Mythril Musketeers identify him as a street thief, taken in by the Tenshodo and taught their trades. It is only when he registered as an adventurer do we start to learn more of the young man.
Shortly after Keir Loell's registration as an adventurer, accounts of a small mercenary group known as the Lost Boys begin to take form. From the biography of the noted Mithra diplomat, Mrree Laktionen, the group was formed originally of orphaned adventurers seeking brotherhood and family during the unstable years of peace after The Crystal War. M. Laktionen recounts that Keir gathered together six adventurers to begin. Lemian, the lost Warrior, of whom we know little. The noted wizard, Owain Cabbageborn. The famed Nicolivich brothers, Mischa and Dmitri, and herself, a Mithra of Kazham.
From there, the group began to expand. As tales of the adventurers began to reach the ears of others, the wanderer known as Bokchoy joined the cadre, and with him, the stoic Galka sentinel, Marathon. The Lost Boys began to be enough of a mercenary power during this time that the Tenshodo began to take note of them, especially it being a branch group run by one of their own. By then, Keir had taken up the training of a ninja, and was known to spend much time in Norg practicing with the likes of Keal and Ryoma.
Tenshodo records indicate that other members of The Lost Boys included the exiled Mithra summoner, Quinsisdos, as well as the banished San d'Orian Temple Knight, Klo Ra'virr. The de Rildyn noble house of San d'Oria was suspected of harboring two members of the group, their daughter, known as Raeyn, and youngest son, Amarente Aleron. Ceriss the Crimson, the noted alchemist, was often seen with the founding members of the cadre, and it has long been thought that his experiments and remedies were instrumental in the victories that made The Lost Boys famous across Vana'diel.
The great Taru-Taru warrior, Fishy, his sister, Nanner, and the wandering monk and healer, Aydann were known to have joined The Lost Boys during their glory days. Such being the way of rumors and legend, it is hard to know when and where each of these adventurers came together and met, nor how many other great names of history took quietly took up the sigil of The Lost Boys in their campaigns.
It is known that three years after the first rumors of the group began, the Tenshodo learned of an island, far to the south of Quon in the island chain of Kuzotz, that had become home to this unlikely mercenary brotherhood. There is even said to have been a village there, and port, and that the Galka dark knight, Marathon opened a tavern and inn for the meetings said to have been held there. No one has ever been able to find this legendary island, but many have spoken of being taken there by members of the group, only to lose their way when they try to find their way back. Little is known about the origins of the place, and how The Lost Boys were able to find their way there with such regularity. There has been some speculation that an offshoot of the Korroloka Tunnel may hold the answer.
What we have been able to discern, from records in Jeuno and Aht Urhgan, The Lost Boys undertook their profession and goals with a zeal that has left history in awe. From the defeat of the Dark Lord to the defense of the Empress of Whitegate, the great battles with Prishe the Proud, and the quests to understand Vana'diel's past, The Lost Boys have not wavered from the path of defending the citizens of Vana'diel and helping to create a better world for the generations of children growing up, as they did, in uncertainty of the future set before them.