Hailing from the chattel pens of Geb, Oaklage spent an inglorious life working in the plantation orchards, where skeleton hands were too clumsy to handle the delicates fruits. The only bright spot in his life was his lover Salla, and, when their usefulness reached its bitter and short end, they were both "retired": Salla to become the food on the table of a vampire, and Oaklage to a sacrificial circle.