Ki-sei

Ki-sei was an orphan boy. Noone knows where he was born. One rainy night, a foreign woman brought him to a monastery in the mountains. She told the monks his name, but that was all they could understand of her language. She turned and left just as quickly as she appeared. Ki, as his friends would later call him, trained his whole life to be a monk in the order, but having no family weighed heavily on him and he drank excessively sometimes. When the day of testing arrived, he had a hangover and nearly missed the competition altogether. There were only a certain number of monks that were allowed to join the ranks of the monastery. Since fighting prowess was the focus of this monastery of warrior monks, a tournament was held every year to decide which youths would be allowed to enter. Ki fought with everything he had to rank high enough to join, but in the end he failed. Because of his incessant drinking, and his failure, the masters banished him to live alone with his dishonor. He travelled the mountains, scavenging what he could, and begging for everything else, until he finally settled in a remote village in the mountains. He became a hermit and lived off the land as much as possible. The village people shunned him, and always secretly feared him. He could never truly keep to himself, though, because he always had to come into town to get more alcohol. The only solace he found in life was inside a jug, because he could use that jug to wash away the memory of his unfinished dreams.