Kord was born in Almas to steady and loving parents. As a youth, however, the thought of growing up to sit at a desk with ink-stained fingers just didn't light a fire in his belly. When walking to school each morning he passed by a
dojo run by immigrants. There was something about the inidivualistic streak in Andorans that made the unarmed combat of Tian Xia attractive.
The youth wormed his way into taking lessons from the Quain master. He took to the physical lessons with aplomb, but he simply didn't have the mindset for the more mystical aspects of the lessons. Still, Kord was an assiduous student. Once attaining adulthood, he begain to test his mettle in the bare-knuckle boxing contests held in the city. Even though Kord one far more often than he lost, it wasn't a great way to pay the bills. Eventually he lost badly to a Dwarven Pathfinder named Senzo. The dwarf was a gracious winner, and told the young man that there's more to life than rings and bells...
That's when he saw the add looking for colonists to head to far off Sargava...
