Rebhan is a young man surely not past twenty summers.  He is quite average looking, not too tall, not broad about the shoulders and not overly handsome or comely.  His father is a well to do merchant who has decided that his son will get a proper education.

Rebhan's father owns a farm, horses and mules are his business so when the boy left home to begin his studies he took with him part of his inheritance, Lija, a young female.