A young man when he joined his faith that few follow, more or less none by the current timeline, Marding had grown up on a farm near Combe. He sought to serve his faith as best he could, and hunting while young had made him accustomed to hardships. When he was told of the Faith of Twelve he immediately converted and began preaching for it, he received battle training as is accustomed for members of the clergy, as they are known as War Clerics, as fighting honorably is honouring the god Tuvnos and because if dying honorably you would make your way to the sky where he would carry a torch lightening the dark for those who would travel in Middle Earth.