Marz spent the first four years of his life there until he was adopted by a millworker named Sistino who abused him for six years until he ran away from home at age ten. Marz then wandered the streets taking up thieving to survive, until he was caught by LaCrot, the owner of a brothel, who promptly took the boy in and put him to work after teaching him the trade.

At age fourteen, Marz became a member of the Street Devils Gang, learning the ways of the sword from them while at the same time taking jujitsu lessons from a man named Wang who ran a shop in the city center called the Closed Fist Dojo. A year later, the members in his gang became disillusioned with their leader since he was proving insufficient at keeping their turf from rival gangs. Marz eventually killed him in battle, thus becoming the new head of the Street Devils.

A few weeks after his seventeeth birthday, Marz's gang began working for the crime-lord, Tegol Denair. Their main job consisted of beating up shoppe owners who refused to pay the protection money that Tegol demanded. One faithful day, Marz and his gang were sent to retrieve money from the new owner of the Medieval Tavern, but things didn't work out the way the gang planned. The patrons of the tavern aided the owner by fighting against them, which impressed Marz who decided to join forces with one man in the inn named Erlic Eastlore who promised to teach him special fighting tactics. Tegol Denair now hunts for Marz to punish him for his treachery.

Marz now journeys with Erlic, the man he has come to call sensai, meaning teacher in the language of the eastern lands. Their adventures together are just beginning.

What no one knows about Marz: Marz is the result of the mating between the god Apollo and an elven woman who died giving birth to him. Because of his god nature and elven heritage he possesses immense powers that are unknown to him. Others can sense wild magic within him, but he refuses to listen to such nonsense since he has a deep dislike for all things arcane, preferring the solid feel of a blade to mystic practices.