Your master Warlic sends you to the Sandsea to investigate rumours regarding the Orb of Light. For whatever reason, you agree to go to this place that is as far from your natural environment as it is possible to get. Thankfully, the ranger helps you out at just the right time to make him the perfect person to take you in. Unwittingly. He just really wants to ditch you somewhere and get on with his job but you can work with that.