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Chapter 4

Gortol was not raised by cloud giants. How he was bereft from them is unknown
to him, and a mystery he would one day like to discover. What he does know is that he was somehow
brought or found by the Perpetuim outside the Temple of Red Sands, a swaddled baby giant on
the doorstep to the god Trabryn's shrine. Over the centuries hundreds if not thousands of poor mothers
have left babies they could not afford to feed at this place. To let the babies languish and die
would be a waste, and offended the Perpetuim's sense of order, and so the usual protocol was for one
of them to summon a priest and have the priest bring the child to some home in the desert where
a child had been lost to the harsh conditions and a mother and father might prize a new baby.

But something was different with Gortol. For reasons known only (for now) to the Perpetuim and Lord
Trabryn, the Perpetuim instructed the priests to keep baby and raise it themselves.
Thus Gortol has been raised among the many races, humans and half-elves most of all, as they
are most common around the Temple. And, unique among all other mortals, he was also raised around
the Perpetuim, who would from time to time instruct him and watch his progress. It was they who
instilled the love of truth and order in Gortol, though not with any great love for the laws of mortals.
Rather, he was raised by them to believe that if you find a cause that may bring order to your
surroundings, and you dedicate yourself to it without reservation, forsaking deceit and untruth,
then you have found a path to a successful life. Gortol seeks to fulfil this charge, and to fulfil
the hidden destiny that surrounds his origins and marked him special to the Perpetuim and Lord
Trabryn. He has learned well from the priests and the guards, learning to keep his soul, and body,
strong. He dutifully prays to his Lord, and hopes one day to earn his trust and favor. How he
will do that is for another chapter.