Salaman was the apprentice of a master Wizard after a certain chain of events in his childhood which many people including his Master all wish to forget, which Salaman cherishes as the one card he is able to play against the old Wizard. After his mother had given him a stirring speech about following your dreams he had decided to do just that and go find himself a wizard to apprentice himself to. Eventually he chanced upon an old bearded man who, after hearing his story invited him into his non-descript white van. The old man made it about 10km through the England streets before the police were on him and he was arrested for kidnapping.

It took a long time to convince the courts that the old man truly was a wizard and the 'tower' he was going to show the child had really been his wizard tower, on account of there not being official paperwork for a wizard tower and the old man being a rogue wizard, so there was no help from family or other wizards. Following his release, Salaman was finally able to live his dream as a wizard's apprentice, only he was also going to find out what being a rogue wizard meant in the modern day. The Old Man was a rogue wizard because he hadn't paid the fees for his wizarding license or the mortgage on his tower for that matter so after returning from the lengthy court case they came back to the tower being seized by the Wizard Bank of England.

Still determined to make the most of the situation, Salaman stuck with the Old Man. To get his tower back the Old Man took out some shady loans and ended up getting chased by old debt collectors which he had previously escaped as he had suddenly reappeared on their radar. The Old Man taught Salaman what little magic he could and also his current name to inaugurate Salaman unofficially as a new Wizard. They escaped the country together only to find that across the world many of the Old Man's enemies had awakened and were out for blood.

One day after a few years, Salaman woke up to find the Old Man and the white van were gone, only to find a letter saying; "Seek the Outbreakers." After a few more journeys on his own, Salaman finds himself in Japan and the Outbreak Agency his master had told him to find. But his Master is still missing and very little information on him exists. The only thing Salaman has found is that a long time ago his Master had worked here for a while. He was forced to completely enter his pockets to even get this far so now Salaman finds himself without clues, without resources, in a country where he has nothing.