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===Early Life===

Pitru was born in the year -17 AZ, in the large village of Ddaza. The village was the center of the Ddaza Tribe, one of the 8 main tribes of the Arcadian ethnicity, then known as Yuvantiyans. While most Yuvantiyans followed the Mufijo Faith (then known as Triple Harmony or Lajrem Qarenna), the Ddazans had never been converted, owing to their relative isolation from other nearby peoples. Though the Ddazans despised Mufijo as a corrupting influence, a few citizens had in the past heard of Mufijo and converted to it. All the Mufijo worshippers in Ddaza had coalesced by the time of Pitru's birth into one clan, the Punstraia, to which Pitru and his family belonged. The Ddazans unsurprisingly discriminated against the Punstraia for being religious dissidents, with Pitru having vivid memories from his youth of the Punstraia leaders being harassed by the magistrates and elders of the village.

 

With his father now unexpectedly becoming the Sifan (leader) of the severely diminished Clan Punstraia, Pitru became the target of yet more discrimination and threats. he was constantly harassed with weaponry, and carried nothing on him to ensure he could not be robbed. He could not even sleep peacefully, with near nightly attacks on his family's home by disgruntled neighbors and religious fanatics. Despite these hardships, the Punstraia appeared to have a stray hope for their future. A sympathetic family in the village decided they wished to practice the faith of the Punstraia, reasoning that if the Punstraia had been saved from such a massacre, surely the Mufijo gods had some power. This family had a daughter around Pitru's age, who became fast friends with the young Pitru. The two eventually fell in love, and they were to be married, in the hopes they could continue the Punstraia line. Unfortunately, this was not to be.

 

 

===Captivity in Lothridge===

For the second time in under 24 hours, the exhausted Pitru was awoken from his slumber by the gods. The young man was without a home, possessions, or anywhere to go, now at the mercy of whatever plan the gods laid before him. The Setrusi instructed Pitru to travel south to a city of dual towers, where he would undergo penance and sacrifice to prove his loyalty to them, and to give him vital knowledge for the years to come. The Setrusi further elaborated that Pitru would no longer need their direct guidance once he had reached this city, and that they would guide him through fate rather than instruction from then on. Confused, Pitru accepted, perhaps because he had no other choice. Before they took their leave, the gods decided to gift Pitru with his family's hunting bow, the Malnourished Hippopotamus, an object he had left at his home in Ddaza. Although lost for two years after the [[Great Alathran War]], Pitru would regain the weapon, retaining it in his possession until his disappearance from Alathra, upon which it became a sacred relic for the crowning of a new Gižaraša (Lord) of Wahat Almarjan. The bow was the only object Pitru had left from his old life in Ddaza.

The experience in this institution was agonizing for Pitru, made all the worse in that he could not communicate with anyone, speaking only Arcadian (at that time known as Yuvantiyan). As the Acquendavians attempted to "educate" the culture out of the Kogongi within the school, Pitru was left alone, neither practicing nor understanding any of the customs the instructors taught to be "wrong". After about 2 months of enduring and witnessing constant abuse and harassment of the inmates by the Acquendavians, Pitru finally made breakthroughs in learning the Kogongi language, albeit fragments as the Kogongi tongue was banned from use in the school. He succeeded in communicating some general information about himself to other inmates, who, in their kindness, helped Pitru to learn more of the language, instilling a deep sense of gratitude to the Kogongi within him. These Kogongi spoke of a vibrant and peaceful culture across the sea from Lothridge. Intrigued, Pitru bided his time to try to escape to this homeland of the Kogongi, leaving his fate in the hands of the Setrusi, just as they had told him to. One night, the school's guards had become drunk for some sort of celebration, finally allowing Pitru to slink away into the night, reaching a river by dawn. Although he had tried to bring some of the Kogongi inmates with him to help guide him to their homeland, they were separated and ultimately captured by the Acquendavians. The Acquendavians continued to search for him throughout the night, but Pitru was able to hide in a river that he titled the ''Draxí'' [drɐˈçi], named in Arcadian from the flowers bountiful on its banks. When he believed the coast to be clear, Pitru made haste towards the coast. Upon reaching a small bay, he found an abandoned boat, which he made use of to row far into the water.

 

 

===Beginning a New Life===

As he arrived in the town, Pitru was greeted by a man in a toga. Noticing Pitru's sorry state, the man took him into his house to let Pitru rest and recover from the harrowing journey from Lothridge. When the man began to speak Kogongi, Pitru felt a great relief, finally able to understand an average person in the unfamiliar land he found himself in. The man said his name was [[Game Glider SKG|Glider Fraemani]], a Kogongi man who helped found the anarchist [[Kogongu|Federation of Kogongu]] in the very city Pitru stood. Over a drink, Pitru shared his journey from Lothridge, and gave vague hints to his foreign origins. As Glider shared similar experiences in the Acquendavian "schools," the two strangers became fast friends. Hours after his arrival in town, the druid Vasya made a routine visit to Glider's home. She quickly noticed Pitru in the corner of her eye, and the two greeted, with Glider explaining the situation Pitru found himself in.

 

 

 

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