Joseph was born in a large farming community just outside of Alliria known as Floiland. He was born as the youngest of six brothers; Holden, Gerard, Lester, Ellis, Thomas and Booker. His mother, Elda Meier, was a formidable battle axe of a woman who raised seven boys. His father, Paul Meier, was an evil man. He abused the younger and smaller children constantly.

Joseph, Ellis, Booker, and Thomas were their father’s more popular targets due to their gentle natures or small statures.

It ended when their mother butchered their father after discovering Joseph hiding in a storeroom with a broken jaw. Their father was interred in the family latrine, where his bones rest to this day. The boys became incredibly close to their mother, and threw themselves into making the gigantic horse farm work. They had contracts with Alliria to provide horses for the guards, are regulars on the racing circuit, and considered members of good standing in their community. The Meiers are known for their willingness to help others and their intolerance for bullshit.

Joseph eventually married and had children. He lost his first wife and all of his children when a boggart attacked their tiny sheep farm. Joseph managed to destroy the boggart through sheer luck, and bound the creature’s soul to a talisman to steal its magic. In this way, Joseph first began his forays into shapeshifting.

Years later, as a drunk and angry man, he stumbled upon a graveyard. That graveyard seemed to be occupied by a church grim, but Joseph discovered a lost and confused black shuck. He became determined to help this shuck rediscover her name before she disappeared, and ended up falling in love with her.

Fell Amsel was a beautiful creature Joseph adored for many years. After reclaiming her name, it was discovered that old enemies in the Winter Court of the fae had stolen her heart and replaced it with an iron one. The iron heart slowly poisoned his wife, and though they struggled mightily through everything they could think of…it overwhelmed her.

Joseph went through hell for Fell. He has done things a man never would have imagined from tangling with the highest lords of the Summer Court to Mab herself. He has made friends of dragons, trolls, shucks, cwn awn, and all manner of fae. He has owned estates, lost estates, and gained fortunes beyond his wildest dreams. He has lost and loved more than a man three times his age. A fount of experiences both good and bad, Joseph now nurses his alcoholism in an attempt to forget the woman who was once his entire world.

Currently, Joseph has a desire to overthrow the Winter Court, and end the apathetic corruption that has spread under Queen Mab’s rule.

All art by the lovely Phobs