When I woke up I realised I was being held in the arms of someone and it was very bright oh so bright, but the face of a woman and her tears were what I saw next I'm pretty sure the only thing I can think of at this moment is gratefull that I didn't have to experience child birth as the one being birthed that'd be difficult. It is really hard to focus when there is not enough motorskills to move and not enough mental capacities to stay focused, but I did manage to catch a glimps of the world it was white, the glaring white of snow on a sunny midday but I saw the huts and the horses pulling sledges and the giant piles of firewood stores and a distinct lack of anything modern society would consider basic.

  During the years I was growing up I saw the roads, while in town it was mainly wooden beams layed across the ground to keep it from shifting and becomming just a pool of mud, and it was salted every once in a while to keep the snow from building up. I found out my family wasn't rich but we weren't poor really, however I could tell there were bad times when we burned the horse manure instead of the wood at night. after about a year or so my mother went back to the hut and gave birth to a girl, I guess I'm a big brother now. after a while I managed to figure out the basics of language and tried to speek, of course parents are happy when their kids speek but apperantly I was late in that department, if my sister is anything to go by I was a year after she first spoke like really.

  I found out most foods are grown indoors and they tend to be root crops for anything on the surface is either frozen or eaten by the sparce wild life. they are grown using the light from the windows because a skylight doesn't block much snow from getting in. after a few years my dad started to teach me, well teach is a strong word just pointed at stuff and had me lift/carry and anything else a farmer would need help with, once we got to log splitting I figured there would be an axe but apperently wood splitting it too tedious for every family to do it themselves so they have a rig with pullies and a wedge is dropped on a log that is cut to length with saws and it just cuts non stop all the time. and families come pick up the firewood.

"Hey dad where is all the wood comming from do we have to worry about running out anytime soon?"

My dad laughed at me "Son, tree's don't take that long to grow everything we cut will be regrown by the next year... or at least most of it, so you don't have to worry about running out" apperently trees grow faster here, like way faster as long as they remember to replant there will be new trees come next year. couple more years later. At about 10 years old its hard to tell with it being perpetually winter and not having a callender I only knew because my dad pulled me aside and had me learn some combat

"Son, you are now ready to learn how to fight. so I will teach you my way of fighting." He tosses me as stick and said "That is your sword, now strike me!" after the first few clumbsy attempts to strike at my dad with a stick and I was more used to swinging a "sword" he started to teach me saying I need to pivot on that foot thrust like that chop like that. after a few months of practicing with the stick he swapped it out with a wooden sword that had weights in it making it heavier than any sword should rightly be, or maybe it was the weight of a real sword and I was a 10 year old child with no real muscle yet. anyways after teaching me to swing a stick he taught me how to swing a sword and cut with the edge instead of just bashing people with the flat side. after a while he told me that was all he knew and basicly I just knew how to hold a sword and how to hit people with it and not hit myself.

"Dad, Why do I need to learn to fight?" My dad got a serious look on his face and told me "Son, once you reach 12 years old we will goto the temple in the city and check your fate with the goddess. and there are monsters on the road, we are safe here for we are protected and hunters go out and kill them but whatever your fate is I want you to be ready for it"

in those two years I spent a good ammount of time training with the sword. I found a power inside me, I remembered what the god told me that the spiritual power is used to use magic so I tried to put that power into my practice I didn't get far but I managed to get a basic slash with that power inside it, considering I chopped a tree down with a single stroke with a wooden sword I think it worked, I managed to drag the tree off at the firewood guys and avoid any questions but I was so tired from using that energy I went home and saw my sister who and just started her own training which consisted of dancing of all things, she was cornered by some other girls her age in a space between the huts so I went over to see what was going on.

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  "ha can't dance huh? what makes you think I want you to hang out with us" one of the girls said I may have stayed away by my own choice but I didn't want my sister to be forced to be alone with no friends so, I went forwards and called out to my sister "Hey Tina you finished with practice today?" the other girls parted and let her run to me "Yes Shaun I am!" she smiled at me she knew what I was doing and we left together. "So how is dancing?" she hummed a bit and said "Oh its all right, but I want to learn to fight like you and then we can go on an adventure and fight monsters and become super strong and -" I cut her off by putting a hand her head and ruffling her hair, "well why don't you just dance with blades then?" I always thought blade dancers were a cool concept might as well support her in wanting to fight though. after that incident she stopped going to dance practice with the others but instead came with me and told her that dancing is all about the flow, and finding a rhythm to dance to, so after that I taught her how to use some of the shorter bladed weapons not quite knifes but certainly not swords so she danced and had her short wooden blades strike trees around her and she moved while she danced.

  After my short period of time training before I went to this temple to check my fate whatever that meant I was set off on one of the sledges towards the big city and left my family behind, and I tried not to look at my sister who became beutiful and from what rumors said absolutely amazing at dancing, and would go to the temple next year to check her fate. while on the road I went over what I knew of the world I was now in. There were monsters, I didn't ask but just sort of assumed there were other races as well being as there were monsters. I knew there was magic and could probably perform it myself if what I did that tree was magic.

  After getting to the city I was awestruck at how huge it was my little town was like a street long with wooden buildings that were perpetually covered in snow, however they had found a way to make stone buildings and the snow melted on the roofs and went into storage bins for the buildings they landed on, being as there is very rarely any loose dirt for the winds to blow up and get the roofs dirty all that melted snow makes for excelent drinking water the roads were paved and when we got there the temple looked clean, which is saying something for its a stone building in medieval times where there's not alot of extra stuff dedicated to cleaning, I found out later that temples also double as hospitals so they went through the extra care to keep it clean.

  Apperently all the readings for the temple were done in the same month and after getting there you signed up, I say signed up but really you were just given a wooden block with a number on it and a key to a room in a neerby building where you waited for the day you went up to get checked or whatever. I spent about 2 weeks in the city avoiding contact mostly but I managed to find out that yes there are other races in this world, and my roommate was one of them, he had cat ears and an extra bushy tail that was very soft, I found that out after my first day I went in and got a face full of it and a naked cat girl glaring at me. after telling her I was her roommate she then told me that her family needed a male for some political reason so she was pretending to be a boy and that his name was Alex. so I had to therefor refer to her as him and we laughed it off like real men! no really after I told him "it's all good man!" we laughed.

  the reading was wierd, I don't know what I was expecting but I went in on my day and after going through the line I put my hand on a pedistal and a sheet was printed off with everything I was and this sheet wasn't made of paper I couldn't tear it and apperantly it would update realtime now that I had it. my name Shaun, my rank? "Fighter" whatever that means, my age 12. acheivments: none Blessings: none after I told Alex about this he told me that people recruit based on what blessings you have, alex showed me his and he had the blessing tough body and that basicly made him very difficult to damage. "So I am going to goto the hunters guild and apply there and become a hunter" Alex told me "most hunters have some sort of combat blessings that helps them with hunting, and since I have tough body I can easily get accepted" Hmm after thinking about it for a bit I determined that I wouldn't be able to be a hunter like I wanted, there was however one option that fit me the best the explorer's guild, they aren't fighters more like scouts, exploring new lands, finding monster nests. apperantly they have a high mortality rate because a lot of the time they are the only thing stopping monsters from attacking towns where there is little to no defences.

  Apperently the explorers guild will take anyone who wants to join, because they are always in need of people. when i showed up with a beastman and we were acting friendly, they basicly pleaded me to join, and said I would have my first job immediately. Its weird but apperently there are people spreading lies about non-humands thus making finding people who want to join the adventurers guild and aren't hostile towards other races rather difficult. After parting with Alex I went back the explorer's guild and got the job they had wanted me to take. to go find the Boreal snowravens and learn their ways. apperantly they are a bird like people in the mountains far to the south. apperantly its warmer there but its still all covered in snow.