Pantensus is a Jiralhanae War chieftain who grew up on an unknown Covenant colony. There He became a raider at an early age and helped raid nearby Kig-Yar and Sangheili colonies for food and other goods. He would later join the Covenant military and go to war against the humans. After the war, he was accepted into a pirate group. It was during this time, as a lowly pirate, that he would meet Lhor Konar and later befriend him. A very unexpected friendship forged from a desperate need to survive an unknown, hostile planet. Years later he would join Lhor Konar's newly started and unusual clan as a higher ranking councilor of the clan's Jiralhanae population.