Born in Reiza Palace in the year 498, the first of four children, as a young prince he was less inclined to what were considered manly sports, and more drawn to study and learning in the classroom. When his father was approached by his advisers on the subject, he waved them off and informed them that it was better that the Ez'Rei study law than swordplay, so that he might serve his country better. And so, even as his younger brothers, born several years after him and so too young to be playmates, learned how to wrestle and ride, the young Crown Prince stayed locked up in his rooms, having a voracious appetite for books on subjects of all kinds. As the next ruler of his country he was expected to learn how to ride and how to handle a sword, and he did so, but with a poor grace. For the rest