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As the youngest of Tegene's ten children, Jawara's older siblings often chide him for being favored. Though he does not agree with this judgment, Jawara prefers harmony to conflict and remains good-natured about the teasing. Because his family was well established, respected and wealthy during the foundational years of his childhood in Abelscinnia, Jawara struggled to adjust when his father moved the entire household across the desert and western mountains to live among the devout and monogamous Lithians.

As an adult, Jawara came to understand that Abelscinnia stifled under the oppressive, secular influence of the Azgaril. The Empire of the Azgaril reached further and further eastward, until the land of the Abelscinnians became a frontier protectorate, and its people lost their independence. Yet a few years after Jawara completed his seminary training in Shirak, the Azgaril began their final push into Lithian territory. Older warriors in Jawara's family allied with their long-term friend, Lynden Velez, to resist the invaders, but their modern rifles and numbers could not blunt the overwhelming forces arrayed against them. Jawara lost his fiancee, Mudiwa, when they became separated during the invasion. No one knows what happened to her, or her family, but Jawara holds out hope that his beloved is still alive and well.

After Tegene accepted command of Lynden's personal army, the Abelscinnian warrior patriarch moved his family over the mountains into Northern Kameron and settled on the Velez estate. Tegene convinced Lynden Velez to modernize his force and Jawara, the most talented marksman in Tegene's family, trained every Lithian warrior in Lynden's army on the proper use of their newly designed, automatic rifles.

Jawara's skill as a shooter would later prove invaluable, when he accompanied Algernon and Astrid into war-torn Northern Kameron.