Growing jaded, Mundin went to tell his sister that he was to renounce her as his kin for who she had become when he met the one that would change his life forever. Pallando the Blue found him then, in the bar that Dyal called home. It turned out that he had been keeping an eye on young Mundin and thought to finally intervine. Pallando had sensed the boys power inside, his adaptability. After a few tests it was decided and agreed upon that Mundin become Pallandos apprentice. That was how his new life began.
The next time Mundin came to the bar for Dyal was to say he loved her and that he had to go off with his master. So off east the two journeyed, across swamps and plains to Galtaire. The green land was quite a sight for the boy and it was here that he was to be protecting from Pallando's old friend Alatar. The two, apparently, had a falling-out some time in the past and now Alatar's main desire was the destruction of what he felt his friend held more dear than himself; Men. Mundin had been caught up in the squabble now but was loyal to his master and resisted agents that would have him come to Alatar the Blue. After seeing the great loyalty Mundin possesed, Pallando found it time to bring Mundin into the order of wizards. Now Mundin the Blue, it was time to go on his own with the skills he had to do good for the people. He mainly stuck to the lower regions of the surrounding mountains and the countryside of Galtaire. He wandered the villages and did what good he could. He had learned very quickly the art of magic and was more than formidable with it there. He occasionally teamed up with Pallando to stop another scheme of Alatars. The people grew to respect Mundin, though and offered him to be the new king of Galtaire but he refused knowing his oath that he obeyed to Pallando being in the order.
The years went on and the shadows began to loom even somewhat in the heart of the city of Galtaire itself. The country-side began to become too untamed even with the the Striders to stop it. Mundin only tried harder and went through the mountains to where Alatar was said to reside. He came there after much trial to find himself under a new name and a new plan. After all was said and done, he could not kill him and hardly escaped with his life. All this for the second time in his life. He came back to Galtaire depressed but the people quicly cheered him up by calling him the hero of their country. Pallando did not seem to mind the attention he did not get and was content when Mundin decided to help the city by being an Elder to it, not a king. Mundin offered counsel and advice to the people that he had learned throughout his own life and was considered a very wise man. The strider Igiwi was one of the best examples of someone taking his guidance seriously. Age had long been forgotten to him as he had grown a long white beard yet seemed to age little more.
Age, it seemed, was what prompted him to be able to foretell the future. The more well known of these was the foretelling of the army that would destroy Galtaire and the general time when it would happen. This and the telling of the "Shadow of the West" that would come to save the people. Fearing that the time of this future was nearly at hand, Mundin asked Igiwi to go west and find the traveler that fit the description of this western foreigner...