Some stories start at a specific event and manage to carry though to a conclusion with sufficient meaning and depth to make the tale worth something. Where a story should start varies, depending on the people and the situation. To understand the present itself isn't it said that History offers the best explanation to be found?
To truly do justice to the story of any person or place, it would have to span over centuries and countries to truly dissect why these events are occurring. Yet not many people have a lifetime in which to pen such a novel and even less have the lifetime to read it. However in some cases it is presumed the reader would have some prior knowledge of a culture or person. Yet in this story nothing in the way of prior knowledge of this particular person was ever offered, not even to those he was closest too in many respects. So to best understand the person privileged in this particular chronicle the fitting place to select to begin his little tale of sorts would be a childhood of discontent. As said, to understand the present you must understand the past and to understand an individual's personality you must understand the circumstances in which it developed. No one can truly understand another person on this planet, no one can experience some influences in the exact same way as anyone else, that is why two people are the same, and no one certainly is like this man.
Authors Notes:
In a fit of boredom I revised this story and found that I dislike a lot about it, the writing, the details, things that weren't consistent. So now I have decided to re-write something that has thus far taken me something over two years to get up to 20 something chapters and re-write it in a short period of time. I plan to do a fair bit of it over the next three days as I have them free.
Characters have been revised, events have been revised.
Well. There you are.