Perkar enjoyed a relatively peaceful childhood, growing up in the outskirts of the Imperial City. Born the oldest son of a minor yet respected and well known clerk, Perkar was raised in the shadow of the dragon blooded - dreaming of a life as one of the gods' chosen.
Knowing that by virtue of his low birth, such a life would be forever barred from him, Perkar set his mind to entering the order of the Guardians of the Realm - the protectors and police force of the common folk.
Taken in for training by the Guardians upon his eighteenth birthday, Perkar learned quickly and was soon policing those sections of the imperial city that fell beneath the notice of the gods children.
No one expected Perkar's younger brother to exalt and enter the ranks of the dragon blooded, least of all Perkar's own family. Jealous of his brother's new rank and frustrated by the limits of his own position, Perkar turned to the quasi legal arena of bare knuckle boxing, losing himself in the adrenaline and blood; the roar of the crowd; and the feel of flesh parting beneath his fists.
His work suffered from this new obsession and it was while breaking up a bar fight between drunken farmers that he first lost control - leaving several peasants unconscious and several others holding their broken limbs in astonishment - it was only the intervention of his comrades that stopped him from going further.
Perkar exalted while trying to take on a particularly violent gang of thieves that had been praying on farmers and peasants - operating far beneath the notice of the dragon blooded.
Astonished by his new abilities - knowing he would soon be hunted as a demon by the dragon blooded and not knowing where else to turn, Perkar went back to his family. It was only a matter of time until his younger brother found out. Torn between his blood-family and the realm itself, Perkar's younger brother found it within himself to help his older brother.
With his brother's help, Perkar managed to evade the dragon blooded of the city and book passage on a non-descript merchant ship bound for the Threshold.
