Editing Kjaelos Marak (section)

=='''Background'''==
Kjaelos was born to human parents who were captured during a raid on their village by Yuan-ti slavers. They were brought to one of the creatures' larger settlements deep in the jungle and sold into slavery under horrific conditions. Not long after their enslavement, Kjaelos was born. Apart from vague memories of them as a baby, Kjaelos never knew his parents as they had died one after the other very soon after his birth. By the strange and capricious turn of fate, Kjaelos survived his early helpless years, learned to adapt, and grew up.

The Yuan-ti master whom he served was a pure-blood who had a strange fascination with humans and always liked to keep several of them around as slaves. This particular Yuan-ti, who was considered eccentric amongst his own kin, was also a priest of some standing who had more than a passing interest in the arcane arts which he delved into much more than the rest of his brethren were inclined to.

The jungle which surrounded the Yuan-ti settlement was hot and wet and rife with disease. A foul greyish mist, mixed in with a sickening smell of smoke and burnt flesh from sacrifical fires which were kept burning day and night in the temple, constantly shrouded the place. Here, the weak and the foolish died very quickly. And for those who remained, the terrible spectre of Death hovered nearby constantly, ready in a split second to snatch up and devour the unlucky in its cruel and deadly jaws.

It was in the middle of such a deadly place however, that the boy Kjaelos learned very quickly how to stay alive. He adapted to his environment and circumstances, constantly maneuvering between his betters and his peers to gain that extra edge necessary to survive. He learned how to make himself useful to his master, how to protect himself from the other Yuan-ti, and how to fend for himself amongst the other slaves. And he managed to, over many years of assisting his master in his research, learn the rudimentaries of the arcane arts himself.

After almost 2 decades as a slave of the monstrous Yuan-ti, an opportunity to escape presented itself. Kjaelos grabbed it and never looked back.