Early Life
Arkarian was born in France, during the later part of the Hundred Years' War. His mother, whose younger self he met on a mission for the Guard, died giving birth to him, and he was thus "raised by strangers, sent from one house to another." Although the specifics of his parentage are initially unknown to him, they are revealed by the end of the second book: Lathenia tells him the identity of his mother, while Lorian, long suspected of being the father, admits to begetting him in order to produce another immortal. As Arkarian was born mortal - albeit with certain powers of the immortals - his compensation was Lorian's gift of youth retention.
After spending the first eighteen years of his life as a foundling with no status, Arkarian became indentured into the Guard. For two hundred years following, he was Lorian's Apprentice, whereby he acquired skills necessary to fight immortals.
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