Growing up in the swamps of Ahkula as one of the Lizardfolk tribesmen who called themselves Saurian, Marduk expected to go about his newly acquired life without many issues, choosing to adopt the ways and culture of the bipedal crocodilians he'd been born to. This was all the case until the day he'd witnessed his mothers passing from the awful "Curse of Self" which set about a chain of events that would change his new life forever.