Wada grew up in the suburbs of Karosgrad, together with a small amount of other halfling families that hadn't moved to a halfling-only village. During his childhood, he helped his parents with their woodcarving buisness which allowed him to fulfill his main goal for doing so; earn enough to buy his own sweets. Unfortunately as a halfling, he regularly got picked on by human children, both for worshipping Knox and being very, very short. Without other halfling children around to keep him company, he went out less and less, staying mainly in his parent's shop until he turned 18, and moved away from the city to a halfling community.
Saying goodbye to his parents, he started to learn how to farm, and became a bit more social. Unfortunately he could never quite seem to open up around humans again, and when he turned 33 and became an adult, he started his journey towards Bramblebury where he could leave his thoughts of Karosgrad behind.