An intelligent young boy from Cardia who has suffered from a recurring nightmare of a woman killing soldiers since childhood. Much of his backstory is revealed throughout the series: he is actually Scythian, but was adopted by Hieronymus after his biological family was massacred during a Greek slave raid. Following a relatively happy childhood in Cardia, the events triggered by Thrax's escape led to Hieronymus' death and the exposure of Eumenes' Scythian heritage, which resulted in him being enslaved. He was sold and shipped out of Cardia, but shortly thereafter, the slaves on his vessel mutinied before the ship was sunk in a storm. Shipwrecked, Eumenes washed ashore in Paphlagonia, near the village of Boa, where he spent the remainder of his childhood teaching the villagers Greek customs while gradually being accepted as one of their own. This peaceful existence was disrupted when a mercenary army from the nearby Greek city of Tios attacked the village.
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