Role

Chapter 3

The minotaur from the alley was named Segivax, he was leader of one dockside
patrols for the Seantryn Modan guard. He was strong and firm, but also kind
and benevolent. Unlike most others of his race he wasn't taken to cruelty and
had a deep sense of honor and pride. Yet he also seemed to struggle with
shame at what he was, an unnatural union of malice and depravity. From the
day that he had rescued Grommak from the dockside warehouse of a slaver's
guild, he had raised the young bull as his own.


Segivax tried against all of the odds stacked against him in the city to
clean it up as much as he could, and do right by the citizens of Seantryn so
far as the law allowed. It was a struggle each day, and trying to raise a
stunted young minotaur who was slow minded on his better days only added to
that. Segivax did that and more with no complaints. He was a patient
minotaur, smarter than most, and saw that while Grommak was not quick of wit,
his circumstances growing up had gave him a sober wisdom when looking at the
world and it's people.


While Segivax spoke common surprisingly well (for a minotaur), Grommak did
not. His speech was always halted and lacked proper structure, but he seemed
to understand well enough. Such was also the case with his writing. He seemed
to understand well enough to read, but his written word mimicked the choppy,
slow structure of his speech.


Segivax also taught Grommak his own martial style, at times measured and
calculated, at others savage and brutal. Such was the way of combat, Segivax
instructed, and to take for granted the real danger of it was to make a fatal
error that didn't bear repeating.


Life was good and eager young Grommak had never been happier. It was a
staggering blow, then, when the familiar despair of helplessness came back to
him one day. The honorable Segivax had reported misconduct amongst other
guards, and while they had been punished they had not been expelled. They
wasted no time in creating an opportunity to betray the benevolent bull to a
wicked group of minotaur thugs that had always had it out for him.