It feels kind of funny putting this down on paper. I haven't told the story of my past to anyone in years. Aside from two or three people, none of the people who know me now know of my past, my roots, of anything about me really before I met them. Well, I guess it's time to throw open the closet doors and lay bare the skeletons of my past.

      I was born on a chain of Islands a long ways away from both Solacia and RhyDin. The Phoenix Isles, as they were known, were constantly ravaged by war as the inhabitants counterparts, the Bocci, tried to take over and finish a war that had begun so long ago, no one even remembered what had started it. So, in essence, I guess you could say I grew up on the battlefield. I had been marked at an early age, due to my innate gifts…or curses, depending on how you look at them, to be a weapon. As such, my training was more rigorous than most of the others, and started at an earlier age. When I was deemed 'combat ready', I was sixteen, and yet I was familiar with most melee weapons for combat, and I excelled with the sword. Not counting the other 'living weapons', as we were often referred to as, I was the best, lacking only one thing to make me even better... experience.

      Experience wasn't long in coming either, when two lands are in a war for Eons, both sides have lost so many people that they refuse to lay down and give up, no matter how pointless the war now is. My youth was hard, with war all around me, hearing and seeing the deaths of those who don't' deserve it, and not being allowed to help because I wasn't ready. My first few years in combat were even harsher, war and it's effects were all around me, but now I could do something to stop it, and though I tried, we still got pushed back..somehow it made the feeling even worse.

     Still, existence went on, and there was a war to fight. You weren't given much time to mourn for the fallen, except when you slept. But then, something miraculous happened, a truce, at least a temporary one, was declared while both sides sought a peaceful solution.

     It was during this time that I was sent to explore the different lands, for we had lost touch with the others during the wars. Through a twist of fate, the portal I was sent through also changed me back into a child. Yet, I still retained my memories. And so, I was found by a man named Eiji Amoh, a sword-master of the Shi-Ken style. As Eiji didn't have a son, he raised me as his own, and taught me the Shi-Ken style of fighting, which while using a sword as it's primary weapon, could also use almost anything you wanted without losing it's deadliness. My father and sensei was amazed by my progress, as I could remember my previous fighting training, and I was able to master the style at a very young age.

      Fate however seemed to like putting me into wars, and around the day of my full inheritance of the Shi-ken style, and being granted the privilege of wielding a katana, war started up. The Lord Temjin recruited me as his bodyguard, and as a hitokiri, knowing me through my sensei. The next few years of my life were spent well enough, aside from the constant blood shed. However, the land was not meant to be my home, and after the war, I willingly took the blame to protect my Lord Temjin, and was banished from the land, though I was allowed to keep my katana as I had served the empire faithfully.

      My travels then brought me to the mysterious land known as RhyDin. While residing in the well known, Red Dragon Inn, I heard word of a group forming. Intrigued, I talked with the man, and soon found myself in the forming Brotherhood of the Rose. Since that day, oh so long ago, my name has changed a couple of times, for various reasons. But I've been here, the same me, from the guild's beginning until present day. I've met almost all of the most important people in my life serving the guild, and the Guild and her members has saved my life more times than I can remember. Through the guild I met my beautiful wife, Elisa Lioness-StarBlade, and together we have a daughter named Katya.

      And there you have it, the abridged version of my lifes story. I apologize if it has bored you.

~Kayin StarBlade