Kashaw was born with a pair of bright yellow eyes; the fact that one of them is now blue was not explained. .[citation needed][[Category:Articles needing citations/Art by ]]]] Kashaw was chosen to be the cleric of a dark goddess named Vesh that married him from the moment he was born. During his fifteenth name-day, they consummated the marriage and, as part of a ritual, Vesh inflicted fifty one-inch cuts on his right arm, which Kashaw then repeated on his own right arm. He also revealed that he was chosen and trained to be a healer to balance Vesh's overly dark presence.