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== Biography ==

==== Early life ====

Chris was born on [[5 September]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors (novel)|The Room With No Doors]]'') [[2954]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games (novel)|Head Games]]'') His surname was Polish ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') and traditionally pronounced "Shvey", but he pronounced it "Kwedge" rather than keep correcting people. His parents, [[Volsted Kornbluth Cwej]] and [[Chris Cwej's mother|Mrs Cwej]], lived in the lower levels of [[Spaceport Five Overcity]]; Volsted's ancestors had had a centuries-long association with the [[Guild of Adjudicators]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin (novel)|Original Sin]]'')

Cwej was exposed to fatal levels of [[radiation]] in the final stage of the [[Great House]]s' invasion of the bottle universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dead Romance (novel)|Dead Romance]]'') He returned to the irradiated zones of the bottle Earth, hoping to hasten his death and [[regeneration]], but the radiation interfered with the process. The Great Houses initially opted to let him to die, but after [[Irving Braxiatel]] requested that Cwej assist an investigation on [[Paracletes]], they sent [[Monk (Tears of the Oracle)|a monk]] to help him regenerate. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'')

Though Cwej had ingested mutagens that he expected would turn him into a heavily armoured war machine, [[House Military]] strategists arranged an intervention to disable them, causing him to regenerate instead into a short, fat, middle-aged man. Sources speculated that the intention was to make Cwej appear innocuous and human for strategic reasons, to test the depth of his loyalty, or to psychically prepare him to battle [[Faction Hollywood]] and the parasitic entity [[the Fat]]. Whatever the case, Cwej reacted badly to his new form. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

Cwej returned to [[2596]] to help his friends defeat an [[All-High God]] which merged with [[Absolam Sleed]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return to the Fractured Planet (novel)|Return to the Fractured Planet]]'') He then travelled by himself in another [[star system]] before he was called back to [[Dellah]] to fight the [[Ferutu]] and travelled with [[Clarence]] on the way back. The Ferutu attempted to kill Chris with a blast of fiery silver time energy, but the result was that Chris was pushed back through his personal timeline. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'') ''[[The Book of the War]]'' described this as "his own sense of self-worth overriding his sense of duty", as he had not yet finished the mission against [[the Fat]] for which his second body had been designed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'')

In his new body, Chris initially appeared as a thin, blond thirteen-year-old boy, a young version of his original self; Braxiatel expressed uncertainty whether he would age rapidly or have to wait to become an adult again. The Ferutu attack had also restored the memories that the Time Lords had altered; Chris no longer trusted them, and expressed hesitation about dealing with them further. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Twilight of the Gods (BNA novel)|Twilight of the Gods]]'') Ultimately, he remained in the service of the Great Houses, but became a "loner by nature", nothing like the brash, over-eager agent he had been when he joined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of the War (novel)|The Book of the War]]'') Chris was present at the birth of Benny's son, [[Peter Summerfield|Peter]]. He "looked rather older than the kid [she'd] last seen," but Benny knew to expect the unexpected with Chris. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Glass Prison (novel)|The Glass Prison]]'')