Jinatsu's Cave

Born to a human woman, the small baby was quickly whisked away by his father and taken to an elven village. The elves opposed the two living amongst them as the child was not of pure blood and the father having disgraced their race. The elders allowed the two to reside with them, but it was far from a happy life. The child was bullied, ridiculed, and attacked nearly every day for being only half-elf. While he was still very young, even some of the adults joined in the attacks against the child, and he had had enough. Leaving a note to his father explaining how he could not live amongst the "goodness" of the elves any longer, he gathered some things and left the village. After months of wandering and starving, he finally found a cave that looked to have someone living in it. As a storm was coming, he decided to take shelter inside. Despite the wind and thunder, he finally fell asleep. He was woken by kicks in the ribs and as he recoiled, he saw it was an older man with a large mess of white and wired hair yelling at him to get out. The child quickly stood up, kicked the man in the shin, and yelled in his face about having no where to go. The old man paused and looked at the child's weak and starved body, but then grunted and gave him a nod. For weeks the man taught the child how to properly survive in the wilderness and he was successful. After some time they became fond of one another, but the child gave no name so the old man gave him one. Jinatsu. When Jinatsu became strong again, the man started giving him odd tasks in which Jinatsu did not understand why. Though he was patient, eventually Jinatsu asked what the point of them were and that's when the man told Jinatsu to perform the motions and unexpectedly attacked. It was then that Jinatsu learned the man had been teaching him how to fight. For years the two lived and trained together, all the while speaking about the crudeness of elves in their self-righteous ways. Through the man's travels, Jinatsu learned it was more than elves who share those values, and is what had made the man decide to become a hermit. Eventually, however, the man said to Jinatsu that he had to experience the world for himself and not just the ramblings of an old man. And so, Jinatsu left the man to gain worldly experience.