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1795 in Canada
Mark Twain would not have been born for another forty years, Jules Verne would not have been born for another thirty-three but if John Henry had been born at all yet was a mystery. As for Lee Ping, he had been born in 1780 and thus was born twenty-seven years before Robert E. Lee who caused the English surname "Lee" to become a surname through is fame but in due part to his counterparts across the multiverse being well known by the name of Lee Ping he shall be known by that name despite Robert E. Lee having not yet been born and the McCune-Reischauer Romanization of the Korean language that resulted in the translation of his surname as "Ping" would not exist until 1937.
The place was Canada but not Canada as we know it. This was before the Canadian Confederation, which would become the Jewel of the Americas. Still it was a Canada filled with villains that made villains such as James Fenimore Cooper's Magua look not so villainous or hypocritical.
Still whatever the Canada was that Lee Ping had been born in it was a Canada nonetheless. It was a country filled with beauty and danger, and boroughs filled with good and evil.
At the moment this story is set, Toronto had existed for thirty-five years. However this was the Toronto of an older time. The city we call Toronto was settled in 1750 as Fort Rouille and established in 1793 as York, Upper Canada and would not be incorporated as Toronto until 1834. Thus our stage is more than a fort but less than a city: it is a town.
At this point York was a part of British Canada thus Lee had been born during the reign of George III of Great Britain; King of Great Britain, Ireland and France, Elector of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Archtreasurer of the Holy Roman Empire. Now, to say that he was only ruler the inhabitants of York had ever known would be untrue. For while Lee Ping, Biffy Goldstein and Tina Kwee had all been born during his reign and Camillio Martinez and Holger Holgaart had come to Canada during it, Wendell Barrage for instance had been born during the reign of George II and served in the Anglo-Mysore Wars, the First Anglo-Maratha War, the American Revolutionary War, the Anglo-French War, the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the Northwest Indian War and was currently away fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars on the side that Great Britain was on which consisted of the Holy Roman Empire, Ireland, the French Royalists, the Counter-Revolutionaries, Portugal, Sardinia, Naples and other Italian states, the Ottoman Empire, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Saint Domingue and of course Great Britain.
This was a time of mob violence brought about by the evil that were revolutionaries but this is not a tale of the French Revolution.