Refugee kids just want to have fun

Born in the refugee camp outside Ioth Academy, Cüper was a kid like any other. His parents wanted to protect him from the existential despair of the refugee camp and focused on teaching the importance finding happiness where you can, and helping others do the same. Cüper took this to heart as he played and ran around with the other kids in the camp, often getting into mild trouble for the sake of a laugh, and often getting away with it since the sound of laughter the kids' laughter was often enough to lift the spirits of the adults such that they wouldn't complain too much.
 
During this time, he would often stop to listen and sometimes talk to Old Ramona. It was during one such conversation where Old Ramona suggested that if he wanted to help other people, he should start learning from man that runs the herbalist shop since many people would go there to feel better. Cüper liked this idea and started visiting with the herbalist when he wasn't out with his friends. The herbalist was bit gruff, and liked to stick to what he called the rules of herbalism. Really, they were just a fixed set of recipes that produced mildly effective mixtures. Cüper learned these recipes quickly, and soon started experimenting to try get stronger effects, after the old herbalist had left the shop, of course. It didn't take much experimenting before he stumbled across a concoction that created a mild euphoric effect. Cüper was thrilled with this discovery and shared with his friends, who all enjoyed getting high off the mixture. When he told the old herbalist about his discovery the next day, the herbalist told him that that euphoric effect was an undesired side effect, and then chastised him for breaking the rules, before sending him back to work. Cüper didn't get why the herbalist thought feeling good was an undesired side effect, wasn't that the whole point? He resolved to ask the next day, but never got the chance.
 
Later that night, the monsoon rains came and flooded the camp. When the rains cleared, Cüper discovered that the herbalist had died that night in the flooding, trying to make it back to his shop to keep his stock from getting ruined by the flood waters. Surrounded by the devastation of the flood, Cüper helped out the only way he knew how, by mixing potions and salves to help his the people as best he could. Working with soggy herbs and equipment, Cüper churned out painkillers, healing wraps, and fever reducers at a speed that surprised even him, he even accidently developed new mass production techniques in the process. When the mages from Ioth Academy finally arrived in his part of the camp to relieve the suffering and fix the damage, they saw the work that he had been doing and were impressed by his ability. Before the day was done, they had already made arraignments with his parents to take him to the Academy that evening, and of course they assured him that now that the mages were here, everything would be fine in the camp going forward.