Role

Chapter 5

Taiu was the by-product of a senior priest of the Empire and his mother, a
half-drow slave. Life was harsh for Taiu during these years, his mother
nothing more than a whore and knowing no life other than that of a whore.
Taiu came to see women as weak things, made only for the pleasure of men. The
priest cared little for the brat he spawned and treated him as a slave for
the first tenyear of Taiu's life. It soon became apparent that Taiu had a
talent for art and the placement of symbols. The priest began using him for
his personal rites to whatever dark Gods he worshipped. While Taiu thought
little of the priest as his father, in fact a deep resentment and hatred
towards him ran deep, he learned all he could while acting as the man's
servant. He learned to read, to entreat the Gods, and even some of the
political struggles within the Palace. One day the opportunity presented
itself to alter a rite the priest was preparing just enough that it would
offend one of the less controllable dark deities. Taiu seized this
opportunity and his father suffered a painful death. Freed of the yoke of
servitude he fled the Palace little missed or cared for by the self-centered
minions who resided there.