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El Mano del Oro...  That is what his name is now.  He grew up much like any
other Grundle child.  Fighting for food, fighting for jobs, fighting to
survive.
He was always strong though.  At an early age he learned that he could get
what he wanted if he was just strong enough.  At the age of 12 an old man
approuched
him.  He told the young boy that he was a master of Dragon Jaw Style, a very
powerful martial art.  He offered the young boy to become his student.  Of
course
he jumped at such an oppurtunity.  The master paid his paretns a very
gernous amount to take away their child and they left for the mountains. 
There he trained.
This training was like no other.  Very harsh, day in and day out.  After 6
years at the school, he had enough of it.

So at the age of 18 he ran off, back to the city.  There he easily found
work.  Usually beating the living shit out of people.
Of course his favorite targets were rich people from other countries rather
then his own.  He hated how it seemed the rest of the country was
"enlightened" but did
nothing to help his country.  At 20 he moved, or ran due to legal reasons to
Uusam.  For awhile he laid low, getting odd jobs as a heavy laborer.  Until
one day someone came to visit him.
It was one of his fellow students when he had studied under Master Gau Don. 
The student told him that he should come back, that the Master was ill.  He
couldn't though.  He fealt like a coward for leaving the
training hall early.  This made the young man sing into depression.  For the
next 4 years he fought quite a bit.  Sometimes for money,
but usually to just help him forget everything.  He started to get a name
for himself amoung the local
street gangs.  But he never joined them.  He found their treatment of
hookers and shop keepers to be disgusting.
Although he was a loner and sometimes a drunk, he did have a kind streak at
times.  Thent he war broke out when he was 24.
He finds it funny when his comrades help defend Konn.  Funny how they are so
quick to use his fellow country men to die to protect
THEIR way of life.  Then someone approuched him.  He told him he had been
watching him fight.  Yeah so what? El Mano del Oro thought.
Then the person told him that he would pay him... for a mission, of the up
most importance.  Assassinate the Emperor.  At first El Mano del Oro just
laughed.


But as it turned out, the man was serious.  And the money was great. 
Hmmm... why not...  He wasn't doing anything better, the pay was good, and
it was a chance to show the world was Grundle was made of.

[[El Mano gets interrogated in the Forbidden City]]