Erasmas was born in A.R. 3671 to a sline family living in the unnamed city next to the Concent of Saunt Edhar. At the age of 8 he was collected and became an avout in the Decenarian math at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. He took as an avout name that of Erasmas, a fraa who lived at the Concent of Saunt Baritoe in the 1300s. His name as a child outside the maths was Vit, a name he would later resurrect to hide his avout status while traveling in the saecular world.