he lived in a village belonging to a City State between the Caligulan Empire and the Lotus Oligarchy, but as the latter expanded in search of slaves, his village was attacked, all the adults were slain, and the children were kidnapped to be turned into Reconfigured slaves.
Mc was trained from a young age to become a soldier, but failed the extremely difficult training nearing the final stages, and was taken for dead. He managed to escape from the pile of corpses and wandered until learning about The Penitence as a way to obtain vengeance against his captors. At this point, however, most of his personality had been erased, and he had turned into a quite cold, and fearless warrior already, but he still had a piece of humanity within him.