Zahid

Zahid was an iz’kal martial artist from Erthum.
== Story ==
Zahid was selected by the school of Furusiyya at the age of six. He had been genetically manipulated before birth and he had showed aptitude. He was told he would become a warrior: a martial artist born to defend his nation. He would not understand what this meant until much later in his life.
Throughout his years, he proved that he had what was needed to be a great warrior, but he was a disobedient student and his ideas often clashed with those of his masters. While he loved his art and his fellow Furusiyya students, he did not agree with the methods and the values of his school. It was during a verbal confrontation that Zahid had taken a master’s gesture as an attack, and promptly took him down, resulting in his permanent expulsion from Furusiyya. 
Zahid became an outcast, wandering from one place to the next, longing for a purpose. He decided he would travel to learn from other martial arts, and come back to Erthum to create his own school - one where new ideas would be heard. 
He now travels from world to world through the Labyrinth, learning the techniques of other species. He will show his old masters their own arrogance and how there is so much more to learn and improve. 
== Source Material ==
This short story originally appeared in Rulebook v1.0.
Category:Short Stories
Category:NPCs
Category:Story Seed