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===Early childhood===

Soren was born in early or mid-[[2511]].<ref name="HEPP">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', ''[[Pariah]]'', ''Prologue''</ref><ref name="HEP1">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', ''[[Pariah]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref> He was brought to the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Dwarka]], a harsh world still in the process of being [[Terraforming|terraformed]], at a very young age.<ref name="HEPP"/> There he was raised by his mother and her husband (his stepfather), who grew illegal crops on a farm in the middle of a forest preserve around one hundred kilometers from any other settlements.<ref name="HEP1"/>  

When Soren was barely six years old his mother succumbed to a [[Dwarka]]n disease for which treatments were readily available.<ref name="HEPP"/> She had not been taken into town to see a doctor, however, because Soren's stepfather had been too worried about going to jail for his illegal farm.<ref name="HEP1"/> The law required that symptoms of the disease be reported to the planetary officials, after all.<ref name="HEPP"/> By the time her husband became convinced he had no other choice but to seek medical attention for her after just a few days of observing her symptoms, she was already dead and he was sick.<ref name="HEPP"/><ref name="HEP1"/> According to official records, both Soren's mother and stepfather had initially dismissed what she was experiencing as nothing more than a [[Wikipedia:Common cold|cold]] and it was thought they may have been unaware of the treatments that existed due to their remote and isolated residence.<ref name="HEPP"/> His stepfather seemingly refused to face the reality of his wife's loss, as he moved her body into their box room and locked the door, telling Soren that it was not possible to see her because she was too sick and needed to be alone to recover.<ref name="HEP1"/> A few days later Soren stole the key to the room late at night after his stepfather had had too much to drink. After creeping slowly through the door he saw the rotting corpse of his mother and cried for a while before sneaking back out and locking the door behind him. He returned the key to his stepfather's bedside table and snuck back to the kitchen, where he sat and brooded. Eventually he came to the conclusion that his stepfather must be responsible for his mother's death and it was this, among other thoughts, which led him to get up from the chair he'd been seated in and grab the sharpest knife from the nearby counter. It was big and heavy from his point of view and he'd even had to stand on his tiptoes just to reach it. He then slowly made his way back to his stepfather's bedroom and pulled a chair closer to the bed so he could stand on it and overlook the sleeping man. He stayed that way for what seemed like hours until light began to seep into the room. He waited a little more after that, but as soon as his stepfather rolled over to expose his neck Soren struck, falling forward and jabbing the blade between the sleeping man's neck and shoulder a little above one of his [[Wikipedia:Clavicle|clavicle]]s. The boy immediately took off running at that moment and vanished into the surrounding forest.<ref name="HEP1"/>