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Xabat was a high ranking soldier and someone that almost all the soldiers looked up to, he served the king and queen without question and with his aide, the empire grew to a great size. Well once again the empire wanted to expand so it targeted a region under the control of then "lowly" hedgehogs and other assorted species, and the echidnas thought the land to be fertile e.t.c. so they launched a campaign for it under the same false pretense as before, stage an attack and then re assault. A war starts and it's gritty as all wars are, Xabat is the first to break into the inner sanctum and he encounters an old mage who leads him (via chase) into the wilderness, and Xabat is able to take him by surprise and strike him down. But in an almost "F you sort of way" the mage talks down to him and his empire unaware that all the soldiers are meerely pawns in a bigger plan, he uses the last of his magic to throw Xabat through time and space (whats going on in the picture). The loss of the military leader was a morale loss for the echidna empire which is eventually pushed back, and consecutive losses lead to the present day rarity of them. He pops out of a time wormhole (face first and ungracefully) in the present day unaware of where he is and basically stumbles through a modern day world that he doesn't have a place in, eventually realizing how rare his breed has become and even discovering the loss of his empire and the fact that he and his comrades were duped.