| Ubar FraMan |
| I was born on Urth. My childhood was fairly typical. But even then I never really fit in, something always separating me from the children I grew up with. I was a slightly better than average student in the Urth school system, but I did not truly apply myself as well as I could have, for even as I child, I recognized that these schools did not truly teach what one needed to survive outside their walls. They did not capture my mind and spirit and were only something to be endured until I would be free to make the choices of life for myself. When I completed my schooling, I took a few years to wonder around my homeland, learning about it and myself as I traveled. Seeing men who were slaves to their jobs and the choices they had made in their life's. Men who claimed to be strong, yet they let other men and sometimes women control their fate and degrade them, just to earn enough coins to survive. Deciding this would never be my fate. I took the money I had saved from the jobs I had worked during my travels, and started a business of my own. Opening a little food tavern. It was hard work but very pleasing and I owed no man anything and was therefore free to run my life as I saw fit. Running the business honestly and giving people value for their coins, my little tavern grew and in the last years I was on Urth, I had built four more by the time I was taken from my home world. I was not the the wealthiest man in my town , but I had more than enough wealth to live comfortably and purchase most of the things I desired. I had plenty of female companionship as well. But all through out my life, the relationships that seemed normal to others, did not seem right to me. The men in my homeland had begun to become subservient to the women around them. Caught up in a game where they were told to act like men but were punished by the very same women if they dared to do so. During the last decade of my life on Urth. I began to seek out others who felt the way I did. To look for men and woman who believed in a more "traditional" relationship between the sexes. Meeting women through a Urth device called a computer that allowed you to talk over great distances. Meeting and taking women who labeled themselves as "submissive", so men would know they had a desire to be controlled. Even though we were merely doing what was completely natural and the true order of things, it was done for the most part in secret meetings, for the people around us considered us to be less than human for our behavior, even though very few of them had any happiness in the unnatural roles they played.My life seemed to be a good one, but I grew more and more restless with the world I was forced to live in, with men who had no honor and a society turned upside down and that went against the natural order of how men and women should live. I was laying under the stars one night, staring into the night sky, when I saw what seemed to be a meteor flashing across the sky, although it seemed different somehow than any I had seen before, brighter and shinier. A ahn passed and suddenly a shadow appeared over me, someone had managed to sneak up behind me, without the slightest sound being made by them. I felt a sudden pain and looking at the stars above my homeland was the last I was to ever see of Urth. I awoke on the ground in what seemed to be a completely foreign land, wondering how this was possible and where I was. I wondered for several ahn until coming to a town. Wandering around amazed at the things I saw. I still do not know to this day how I survived those first few days. But survive I did. Even though at first I thought I must have damaged my head somehow, as this world seemed to come out of my own head and the dreams I had often wished for back on Urth. But I soon began to learn the realities of Gor and that my life back on Urth had little prepared me to survive here. For a few days I was allowed to stay with the warrior Entrophy_Mage and his slave. Learning some of the basic rules of Gorean life and earning my first sword. But as I had done once before on Urth, I set off alone (looking back a most foolish thing to do on Gor- with my limited knowledge of it) to explore this new world and learn my place in it. I was camping in some trees, a few days after setting out on my journey, when once again a shadow came over me as I lay at night watching the stars under the moons of Gor this time. I awakened in another place once more, looking out over a great stretch of land that filled the horizon. I wondered for a day, trying to stay alive and far from the many noises of great beasts that could be heard in the distance. I came upon a great camp-seeing slaves picking berries in the fields. To my surprise one of the slaves looked familiar. It was the former slave of the Mage I had met before, she pointed the camp out to me, telling me what a fine home she had found, even as one of the camps guards came riding toward us, asking if I came in peace and what I was doing in Kassar. Maybe I was fated to live in Kassar all along. I would like to think so, as it is truly home, more than anywhere I have lived on two worlds. In my short time here I have been honored to live with true Freemen, Men who live and die by their word. Firm but happy people who have allowed me to continue to learn how to survive on Gor and what being a Freeman truly means. Smiles and who have the best girls on all Gor. Hai Kassar - Simply the Best. |
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