The young man was none other than Gunnery Chief Wynndort of the Golden Deer.
There weren't many high-ranking members in the city-state. When he was captured by the colonizers' slave-catcher team, it caused quite a stir among the city-state's upper echelons. Unfortunately, Chichen Itza City lacked the strength to send out a search and rescue mission beyond the island. Guided by the slave traders' practice of buying and selling in different regions, he was transported from the Bantaan Archipelago all the way to Iron Anchor Bay.
If it weren't for good luck in encountering Byron, who possessed the "Sailing Logbook," things would have been different. Byron saw that this indigenous youth and his few attendants had an unusual past, considered him a rare find worth investing in, and did so. He was almost certain he would never return in this lifetime.
