birds of a feather (flock together)

I walked through the empty streets, checking bodies to see if you were dead. - Soren, Endgame Map 5

In the ruins of a village overrun by the chaos of the medallion, an unlikely meeting leads to Zelgius taking Soren under his wing. Naturally, this changes things.Or, Soren grows up in Begnion alongside Sanaki under the watchful eye of Zelgius and Sephiran, and does his best to ignore the plot until it comes stumbling into Melior, at which point Sanaki assigns him as tactician to General Ike and the Crimean Liberation Army.