Orba's Mother

Orba remembers his mother as a person who had no pleasure in life. After her husband died she always worked hard from morning till evening, every day. She ploughed the barren fields, sold native clothes and towels she made at the city of Apta once every month, and made the nearly tasteless stew for him and his brother Roan.

During the war with Garbera, when Orba was about nine or ten, Apta came under siege and Mephius forcefully conscripted soldiers from the near-by villages, including Roan. Orba's mother became listless and stopped working after that. When Apta fell three weeks later and Garberan soldiers came to plunder the village, she refused to leave and kept on waiting for Roan to return.

When a Garberan soldier started to assault her, Orba attacked him. During the scuffle he discovered a short sword from his brother and killed the solider. His mother and him where just about to be beheaded in retaliation, when they were rescued by an honorable Garberan apprentice knight.

After escaping to the north with Orba and the rest of the villagers, they are attacked and massacred by Mephius' General Oubary. This is the last time Orba saw his mother, she is presumed dead along most everyone else in the village.