Role

Chapter 1

Ubankoz was born within the outskirts of Seantryn Modan. His birth was not out
of the ordinary, at least for a Minotaur. Mother was some sort of field maiden
and his father an outlaw. He had been told that this was often the way of
things, it was quite seldom for a human woman to willingly accept one of his
kind during the blood rites. Although the act of birthing had killed his
mother, he was yet very happy to be counted among the living.

He grew rapidly, as most minotaur do. Before he knew it, he had been sold off
by his bandit father, a few gold and a few nights at the brothel he figured
were a fair price. The people who had purchased him were not kind, though they
were not mean either, they were simply indifferent. They used his size and
youth to their advantage, much as a farmer may use any bovine creature, he was
a beast of burden.

The task assigned to him was one which he often considered futile but so long
as he wasn't beaten too bad and was kept fed, he continued doing. The
transformation of swampland into arable and solid ground. Most days he spent
dragging logs, forming troughs and slowly filling them in with hard-pack dirt,
being sure to mix in the earthly muck from below. He did this for five seasons
and had since resigned this to be his life but things changed.