Biago grew up in hiding. His grandfather, Sir Guasbert Fragonard, a warlord given the title of knight, was a follower of Stephan Tirome. Sir Guasbert was one of the men who worked as an advisor to the goblin hordes during the Goblin Wars.

When Duke Desmon's duplicity became known, it was also discovered that Sir Guasbert had been leading some of the goblin raids on Quessa and had been witnessed to carry out brutal attacks on the commoners. Word went out for the arrest and execution of Sir Guasbert Fragonard. He made a harrowing escape, took on the name of Taren Belvacador and settled in Stonegate amoung the poor to better hide himself.

Guasbert eventually took on a wife and had children. He began to train his eldest son, Philibert, as a knight. This had to be done secretively and sporadically, as their cover as the working poor, was in danger of being discovered. Philibert in turn did the same with his eldest, Biago.

Knowing his heritage but not inheriting it, Philibert took to drinking, bitter that the riches promised to Guasbert in the war, were unachievable. One day, after training Biago and drinking himself into a stupor Philibert got into an argument with his son, accusing Biago of not living up to the family name and began to beat the fifteen-year-old lad.

Already strong from training and life on the streets, Biago, his temper lost, took up a blade and slew his father, freeing himself of Philibert's tyranny, though saying to all that Philibert had died from too much drink.

Though having been raised in hiding, Biago was on occasion able to see his mother's father, Ademar Orabal, who was quite a philosophical man, and was able to teach Biago to read and write, and play intellectually with ideas. One of the few people Biago felt safe with as a child, he had a profound effect on the boy. It was an effect the peace loving Ademar though, would not have liked had he lived to see what Biago would become.

Biago, a creature of the back streets and his father's own twisted sense of honor, set out to re-establish his family name. He took with him an ambitious ruthlessness as well as the knightly skills his father had secretly taught him, Ademar Orabal's intelligence, his father's secretiveness, Guasbert's ruthless valor, and his own street learned survival skills. Not only would he re-establish the family name, but as well, become a powerful man in his own right. The world was his for the taking, and that is exactly what he planned on. Where his father had failed, perhaps he would succeed. Being faithful to his grandfather’s past, Biago set out to petition to serve in the House of Tirome.