High Clerist Zell was a Fab'Rini half-breed. His mother, a Fab'Rini, had an affair with his father, a Haftel. Zell grew up shunned and was abandoned by his mother when he was ten years old. He survived on the streets of the planet Manu's major cities.
Later in life, Zell became involved with the Worker Party, and eventually rose to become it's unofficial leader. He was instrumental in bringing about the War of the Workers, also known as the Worker Rebellion. He fostered a good relationship then with High Clerist Kyrill.
After the Rebellion, the friendship between Kyrill and Zell deteriorated rapidly. Politics soon put them in a head-on confrontation. The Worker Party, then the most powerful, was seeking fundamental changes in the government, which was still adhering to the concepts of Inetism. Inetism had been attacked and destroyed by the very same government. Zell was the Party's instrument in attacking the old government.
One fateful night, after a particularly stormy meeting with the mad High Clerist Kyrill, Zell was banished. He contracted with the United Anarchist Collective to have Kyrill killed and the Conclaves massacred at the next feast in Glory Square. Kyrill was assassinated less than a month later.
After the downfall of Kyrill and the collapse of all form of stable government in the Chilkit Coalition, Zell rose to lead several large clans in the Clan Wars.
Once this alliance of Clans was victorious, Zell went about establishing the New Chilkit Coalition, which he would rule shortly as the new High Clerist.