Mahdi'Gai, of Arafel
Gaidin in Training
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I was born Kaylan Mantur in a small town of Shol Gar north of Shol
Arbera. My father,Jak, was a wood merchant and a respected member of the
community.My mother and sister,Kinna and Hollie,were the local seamtress
there.Since I was 6,I had helped my father in his business.I woke up
early in the morning to help my father haul woods from the nearby
forests.That was where I met Faran
Faran lived out here in the woods in his shack and he chopped woods for
a living.Most people were taken aback when they first meet him because
his eyes were yellow in colour.I was intrigued by him and spend most of
my childhood with him.Faran had thought him to hunt and to track and to
fight with a sword.He also tought of the world and of the Blight.After,3
years with him,Faran had nicknamed me Mahdi'Gai,Battle seeker,because i
was a hot head,always moving before i thought it over.
I had turned 15 when my father had gifted me with a medallion.Engraved
on it was a red eagle in flight.Father said that it had been in the
family for ages and it held the secret to my family's past. Faran had
decided to take me to the Blight on that day,although I had not asked
father's permission.
Faran had said that any borderman must go into the blight to really be a
borderman,to know the reality of it.Faran wore a heron-marked blade on
that day,looking all the while like a warder.
I tried not to remember much of what happened in the blight,but one
thing stood out in my mind,the rotting stench of it.We had spent one
night there and fought our way back next.I would not like to go back
into the blight unless it was for a good reason.
It was on my 19th naming day when the greatest tragedy of my life
happened.I was out huntiong with Faran,when suddenly hestood straight up
and then looked straight at the direction of Shol Gar.He told me t stay
put and he went off like the wind.I spent the night out there in the
woods before making my way backed to Shol Gar
I was not ready for the sightthat came to me.Shol Gar was in ruins and
there was not a soul left standing.suppressing a wave of despair,I ran
home as quick as I could.There I found father,mother and Hollie's
body.It was a wonder they were not in a trolloc cookpot.I wandered
around aimlessly until he found Faran's body.Around his body were many
corpes of trollocs and a few trollocs.Without thought,he belted Faran's
sword to my waist and moved Faran and my family to the woods.There,I
consigned their bodies to the last embrace of the mother before I moved
on.I had on only the clothes I had worn the night before,the red eagle
medallion and Faran's sword.I made my way to Tar Valon on foot,to learn
to be a Gaidin,so I could have my vengeance....
Mahdi'Gai is a little over 6 feet and has dark eyes and hair.He valued
knowledge as much as blade skills,as it was instilled in him by Faran.He
has not ridden a horse before in his entire life.