Jarred Dragoncloak is a man, whose fate had been shaped by dragons. The place of his birth, a village called The Blackspine, sits right at the edge of the Blighted lands, and would have been destroyed many times over by either monsters or the remains of the Triumvirate's undead hordes, if it was not for a family of Brass Dragons, which laired nearby, protecting the village from peril. The patriarch of the family, Karjinaraijirin, had settled in the region with his spouse, Terereminajir, with the express purpose of protecting anyone who would live in the area from the horrors of the Blighted Lands. The couple sired two offspring, Kharimnahajira and Irvajinzratin, and by the time the future Dragonfire adept was born, the dragons had lived in the area for over 70 years.

Jarred was orphaned practically from birth, with his mother dying during childbirth, while his father, an adventurer, was on a quest in the Blighted Lands, a quest, he had not returned from. The villagers, most of whom weren't prosperous themselves and those few who could afford to feed another child being uninterested in an additional burden, left him, bound in a piece of dubiously clean cloth, at the gaping maw of a cavern, which served as the lair of the draconic family. Finding a crying human child at the entrance of their home, the good natured dragons accepted him as their own. Jarred spent 25 under his adoptive family's wing (both literally and figuratively), becoming a dragon in all but race, absorbing draconic culture and language like a sponge. Not only that, but he, a human, was taught dragon magic, an esoteric and enigmatic art, by his adoptive parents along with his siblings.