An idea to pull our ideas together and give us a chance to meet and know each other:
Atrius doesn't remember his parents. As far as he was told, he was left at the orphanage by them at age 3.
The orphanage is run by a Baroness (who was exhiled from her home land). This is the same orphanage that Ollie lived in. Also the same one that Flora used to live in before ending up with Sophie, the fairy godmother.
At the orphange there was an eerie cat that lives there that seemed to always be watching the children. It turns out that the cat is the familiar of a goblin warlock who is the adviser of a goblin king.
The orphan grounds were maintained by an eccentric old fellow, named Carlin Dimble, who also has a tinkering workshop. He dabbles in magic himself and is interested in the artificer discipline. Tink befriends him and spends much time with him in his workshop.
The old tinkerer comes to discover that the baroness has been turning children over to the goblin king and that the cat has been advising which children are the next candidate. The tinkerer warns Tink and Ollie and helps them escape the orphanage, telling them to find Flora because he knows she is safe with Sophie. he also tells them that the Guildmaster knows how to find Flora and Sophie. In a heated escape scene, the old man faces the baroness. The boys see the old man get killed by the baroness just as they narrowly escape.
They wander the city for a short while, sleeping in gutters and alleys, trying to find the Guild, when Woody finds them and brings them to the guild.
Basil, if Ollie has already been adopted...then instead of Tink and Ollie escaping the orphanage together, Ollie somehow hears about what happened at the orphanage with Carlin Dimble being killed and a boy escaping. Ollie knows Tink from the orphangage and suspects that Tink was the boy who escaped and goes out into the city looking for him with Woody who he now knows from the Guild. Ollie and Woody find Tink hungry and sleeping in allies and bring him to the Guild.
I'm assuming the 'retired' thief that adopted Ollie is actually the Guildmaster. The same anti-hero, philosopher thief's guildmaster that Woody knows as Tolraq and that knows Fairy Godmother Sophie
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