Ah okay, that's fine if we don't do a mid-evil time frame, but what do you mean by pre-modern?
As far as his curse goes I was thinking maybe something like he went to someone that said they could give him the ability to read minds, but they didn't tell him that in doing that he wouldn't be able to keep his own thoughts to himself. So yea in a way it kind of took his filter away. Like as an example if he gets flustered over something, like questioning if he's into guys, instead of thinking 'Why is this guy making me feel like this?' he would actually say something along the lines of "You're not a girl, so why do you make me feel this way?"