Somewhere in New Mexico in the desert after a winter snowfall. Woke up, found a rusty revolver and then encountered some refugees being extorted by the fallen. When he drew his gun to defend them, the gun didn't fire bc of years of disuse. The fallen crew laughed at him and their sniper killed him in one shot. As they closed on the refugee camp, his ghost resurrected him and he drew a golden gun from the light, burning away the fallen raiders. From then on he was known as blaze, and he called his ghost ash. Lived in the wild for a few years before encountering another light bearer that took him and his refugees to the City where destiny's story begins in Canon.