My name isKaz Rodnar. I am 9 years old, son of Dennis and Kate Rodnar and brother to LucyRodnar my 6 year old sister. I am the plain in plain sight, I have dark hairand brown eyes, am of average height and average looks. I live in the magicalworld of Thorvald, am a citizen of the Empire and I live in Ismet.
Ismet is asmall city or a very big village. I am not sure since it seems too big to be avillage, but doesn’t seem to have enough buildings to be a city, but I reallycan’t say since I’ve never been anywhere else. In this magical world ofThorvald there is a vast array of creatures and species, but the main ones arethe elves, the dwarves, the beastmen, the humans and the magical creatures. Eachof these species has an enormous amount of sub-species. I don’t even know ifthere is someone who knows them all. I myself and my family are all humans, asis the vast majority of Ismet. As a matter of fact, I’ve never seen neitherdwarves nor magical creatures in Ismet, and I’ve only seen a few half-elves andbeastmen slaves.
My fatheralso has dark hair and brown eyes like me, he is of average height and sturdybuild and is a guard in Ismet, whilst my mother is a servant of the Darynafamily. She has blond hair, green eyes, she is tall and has a slender body. Mysister has a light brownish hair, green eyes and is by far the cutest littlething ever, no arguments. My parents were both mercenaries travelling the worldbefore they met and fallen in love with each other, and when I came along theydecided to settle in Ismet because my father was originally from here. Coincidenceenough my mother was also from a small settlement not too far from here.
By decreeof the Imperial Family, everybody is obliged to attend basic school by the ageof nine, which last three years. In basic school you learn how to read andwrite, basic math, history and geography. Afterwards, if you have talent in magic, you can go on to middle schoolfor a duration of six years, where said talent is cultivated. Then there isalso the Imperial Magical University, supposedly the greatest place to studymagic in the entire world, but only accessible to those of high birth, whichsadly excludes me.
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It is nowspring and I’m supposed to start basic schooling this fall, as such there isnot much to do. I usually spend my days playing around in the backyard of theDaryna family and throughout Ismet with a few other kids. Mostly they arechildren of other servants and slaves of the Daryna family, which annoys thehell out of my mother. She insists I keep poor company and that I must makefriends with other kids, better kids, kids of rich families and such. Sheparticularly dislikes my beastmen friends, including Klim, my best friend.
This worldis heavily elitist and racist and it starts showing off pretty early in kids lives.Most rich kids my age are nothing but jerks, bullying slaves and children ofservants. Once at the behest of my mother I tried approaching some of them tomake friends and play but they wanted to make me their errand boy. When Irefused they beat me up, which was how I met Klim.
Klim issome sort of weird dog beastmen. Now when I say weird don’t get me wrong, he isperfectly normal for a beastmen. The thing is he has slightly less humanfeatures than most other seen beastmen, namely he has a snout. It does not helpthat he does not know who his father is. Apparently it was a mercenary that waspassing town during mating season. Klim has golden eyes and pitch black fur andeven he himself doesn’t know what race he is exactly. He is really fun and agreat guy. Klim, me and Lucy are inseparable.
I fear thatwith the coming of fall that will change. Whilst I will begin school he willbegin training has a slave worker. He is not sure what he will do, but hethinks it will be some sort of heavy manual labor, away from public sight. Thisis why we have been trying to enjoy most of our time together.
My name isKaz Rodnar…but that is not always my name.