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Heliand recognized in the boy a commonality, for Heliand had been trained on the Isle of Artaeum as a mystic. One of the troubadours, a soothsayer named Heliand, began testing Trechtus' mind and found the boy, though shy, to be preternaturally intelligent and sophisticated given his circumstances. A band of troubadours found him nearly dead, curled up in a ditch by the side of the road, nursed him to health, and employed him as an errand boy in return for food and shelter.

He made it as far as Alinor, half-way across the Summerset Isles. Trechtus fled from Lord Gyrnasse's estate three months later. The body of Trechtus' father was kept hanging for weeks during the hottest summer Sollicich-on-Ker had seen in centuries. The trial of the smugglers was a farce, and the punishment came quickly. It was said that Trechtus' mother, an ignorant and religious woman, fearful of her husband, had betrayed the smugglers, but there were other rumors as well.

However, when Trechtus was eight, the smugglers were found and imprisoned. Nevertheless, a small scale smuggling operation kept a number of books and scrolls in circulation right under Gyrnasse's nose. All booksellers, poets, and teachers were forbidden, except those in Gyrnasse's keep. The lord had been advised that literate servants were an abomination of nature and dangerous to themselves and their lords, and had closed all bookstalls in Sollicich-on-Ker. His father and mother were common laborers, but his father had secretly taught himself and then his son to read, against the law of Lord Gyrnasse.

During the early bloody years of the Second Era, Vanus Galerion was born under the name Trechtus, a servant on the estate of Lord Gyrnasse of Sollicich-on-Ker, a minor nobleman.