James was born late in the land of Atlas to a farm-working father and mother. His youth wasn’t especially interesting, working the land and playing with his siblings in the fields after supper. His education was in-house, provided in a very rudimentary way by his mother. Once James came of an appropriate age to start, his father would send him into town to meet with his uncle, Richmond, who taught him in the ways of swordplay, as he was a city guardsman in the Empire. Upon reaching the age of eighteen James departed from his family, now on Arcas, to seek out work in the field he was trained for, guard or military service.
