Born on an ancient Class VI bulk Freighter to a stowed away clan of wandering Ryn, Kordath knew no stability in his youngest years. From starport and space station his family wandered, finding work where they could, stowing away when to many grew angry at the 'job-stealing Ryn'. For the first dozen years of Kordath's life, he never was allowed to stay anywhere more then a month it seemed.
Nearing his thirteenth year he was cast out from his small clan for killing a human male who had tried to kidnap one of his younger sisters, allegedly to sell into slavery, and was forced to make his own way in the galaxy. Kordath's wanderings would lead to an odd assortment of interests and skills from working many jobs for short periods of time, and the occasional bit of thievery. Stealth and talking ones self out of trouble were some of his first lessons on his own, and the young Ryn did his best to survive in this manner, with no legitimate work really available to one of his transient status.
Eventually these wanderings, and occasional fleeing, would lead him to Nar Shadda and later to encountering agents of the Brotherhood who could sense his potential to direct the flow of the Force.