When Fantus was a child he was very small. Although his original parents
had disowned him and left him to die in the grasslands, he was raised by a hermet that
lived in the swamps. The hermet took Fantus in and fed him, clothed him, and taught him
how to speak altene. When Fantus was 9 the old hermet was out wandering looking for a meal
of berries when he was attacked by a bandit. Fantus, hearing the cries of the hermet,
rushed out to help. The bandit quickly killed the hermet and kidnapped Fantus. The bandit
bound Fantus in ropes and trudged around into the swamps for 3 long years, by then the
bandit had made Fantus help kill, and plunder victims. One night after killing a young
woman and her child, Fantus turned on the bandit and attacked him for killing an innocent
woman (Everyone else had come to fight him and the Bandit). Fantus and the bandit stood
for two days and three nights engaging in combat. Then the bandit turned in fled in shear
panic, for he was growing very wary and Fantus still had not weakened. Fantus spent many
months tracking the bandit down, and grew stronger. Fantus then stumbled across the
bandit's camp. While searching the camp Fantus found the body of the bandit with the
bandits own dagger plunged into his stomach with a note that read:
Fantus
You have persued me
too long. Let me have rest...
Fantus, lost in what to do, wandered within the swamps until finding the city of Iridine.