Role

Chapter 4

Childhood. When I was a Baron of War, approximately of the
thirty-fifth rank in the warrior's guild, the most talented
Blade in the echelon in which I served Emperor Yanacek, I
attended an event held at the Inn of the Eternal Star. The
content of this event was in pertenance to taking in and to
accept the Light. My presence ws naturally unwelcomed. I
remember this day, this day I met a Golron, later to be named
Marshall. I remember this day more importantly having met
an Elder Prophet of the Light. Vahletharien questioned what
I knew of Empire and its' "oppressive" ways, to paraphrase.

Unlike other Emperor's whom attended the finest educational
institutions Thera provided, I was a student of the forest,
one located northwest of Galadon. The Ashes of Nowhere could
be considered my home as a child. My social interaction was,
unlike theirs, not with princes and worldly scholars. Mine
was of those who would campaign in the burning forests. The
warriors, the rangers, mainly. I would mimic these warriors
and their maneuvers. I would feast upon the butchering deeds
of rangers of all races. Survival, a testament to my strength.

Why did the most powerful mortal now in Thera need to live such
an undesirable childhood? I answered to the Prophet that day,
"The very Empire I serve orphaned me." Intriguing, indeed.