Leon was born into a family of riches, although he did not wish to, he was, and since a young age he's been honing his swordsmanship, but, Leon's life was about to be hit with despair, for his mother had been diagnosed with an incurable disease, that is still unknown to this day, Leon's father took it out on Leon, getting drunk on wine and abusing Leon and his siblings. Time had passed slower than he could imagine, and yet, it seemed so soon for Leon to be turning 15, his mentor who had been teaching him the way of the sword had but one gift, a new sword, just for Leon. That day after training he heard a guard talking about an arena for fighting and that you could use anything, weapons or magic, Leon, didn't care, but unknown to him at the moment, his mentor saw it as a way of him getting out of the terrible household he was in, and he called for a horse and started packing Leon's things, when Leon went to sleep he heard a tap on his window, and then another, and another, he quickly opened to see who was out there, to find his mentor, with a packed horse, Leon quickly climbed out and asked what he was doing, his mentor simply told him to get on and head to the city, where the Arena of Gods is. Leon climbed on and his mentor quickly smacked the horses ass, and it rode out, his mentor sighed a sigh of relief, happy that his precious student was finally going to leave this terrible castle. This will not be the last we see of Leon though, for his destiny's intertwined with Keit and Ren's.