Varin was born on one of the islands along the
chain of islands above Port Kar.
He had heard the stories of Port Kar but the stories of pirates
and wanted more than his village life.
He wanted to see the Thassa as soon as he got older,
and being an orphan, he went to make his fortune.
Off to Port Kar he went.
Once he arrived he became a cabin boy and learned quickly
what the duties were but he managed to escape the more personal needs of the captain.
Once he proved himself, he became part of the crew, raiding merchant ships,
and his fighting skills became honed. Yet again, despite his claims
of raping and pillaging, he would conveniently disappear when the raping began.
Eventually, his ship was overtaken, and he was taken prisoner along with others
who had not been killed. They were taken to Torvaldsland,
where he became a work thrall on the cold hard land.
Unbranded, collared, and renamed..he was whipped until finally,
he stopped speaking and worked the fields. It was there in the fields
when another thrall thought to provoke him and overtake him
when he proved himself a fighter.
Warriors then took him in, admiring his style for a "slave"
and used him to train themselves as well as
entertain the free in sparring matches.
He evolved from field thrall to pit fighter.
Not yet losing a match on the sands,
he whose collar he wore disappeared so Varin was sold.
While being transported, he managed to escape with another slave
but was caught by guards of the house they were near.
Recollared, renamed, once more escaping the brand, he began entertaining
the free once more as a pit fighter. The couple who had collared
him dissolved their companionship and Varin was freed by the freewoman.
On the road he went and that was when he met the neglected slave, kyle.
Contrasted not only by appearance but complimenting each other's skills,
the freed pit fighter, a freeman once more owned the boy kyle
and the two resided in the interior of Tyros for a time
where they found
solitude and peace for the first time since he left home as a young man.
Needing to make coin, he and kyle boarded ship to the mainland,
once more part of a crew. Muscled and tanning from the work on the voyage,
he still remained quiet, the crew thinking the two were eerie
from their silent communication.
Once they docked in Bazi, they became separated from each other during
the purchasing of supplies, and kyle was stolen after a fight broke
out leaving Varin injured and unconscious. Varin is now 32 envars.
