Courer de Bois
...he Jean's hovel in the dead of night while the family was sleeping and he kidnapped Marc. For the next 10 years Marc underwent tutelage from Hell as Pierre often physically abused him whenever he displayed the slightest ignorance or disobedience. Even though he had to suffer through many hardships under the tutelage of his cruel master and a severe depression that originated from being separated from his family, Marc became vastly more intelligent then he ever was before. Although because of his living conditions, Marc was transformed from being a mild mannered, kind human being to being a spiteful, vengeful and hateful person who through intense paranoia explicitly distrusted everything and everyone in life. Marc finally "escaped" when he ventured off on his own in 1625 at the age of 25 when Pierre "accidentally" took a tumble down the long and winding staircase in his mansion and subsequently died of a broken neck. Marc was eligible to inherit the vast fortune which Pierre amassed but in perhaps in his only show of morality he turned down the fortune which represented his mentor, whom he hated so greatly. For 5 years Marc Jean wandered throughout France, searching for a way to use his vast knowledge to accumulate a large amount of wealth. Yet no matter where he traversed, no matter what profession he undertook, Marc could not settle in one area for long becoming uncomfortable with the social component that inevitably followed with the career. After all, Marc was deprived of social interaction with his peers for the many years he was with Pierre and also because of his unusual paranoia he distrusted all fellow employees and people who tired to converse with him. It was in 1630 that while engaged in the search for the "perfect career" according to his guidelines (meaning little to no human interaction) , Marc came upon information that the land overseas to improve the population of government wanted citizens of France to emigrate to the settlements located over there. At first Marc considered this relocation as a bad idea, feeling that it meant he would have to be deeply involved in the community at the settlement. If it were not for the tales that were told to him by a mysterious old hermit who had just made the voyage from the New World to France , Marc Jean would never have travele...