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At just 12 months old, little Arles had mastered the language of the Republic with a fluency that left his parents speechless. He devoured the knowledge in books and absorbed it with frightening precision.
From day one, Czen had taken on the role of mentor. He would often find him sitting among books twice his size, trying to decipher glyphs from bygone eras. And since Czen was the brains of the group, the one with the most knowledge, he began teaching him everything he knew.
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From ages 2 to 5, the bond between The Master and The Apprentice—as they called it themselves—was formed.
Young Arles's education was not limited to the written word. Under Czen's rigorous tutelage, the boy learned that the world was much more than what met the eye. Czen, one of the Republic's most distinguished masters of ritual, began to introduce him to the language of spiritual energy.
