Elea was born in Cheliax as a slave to a particularly nasty owner. He enjoyed pitting his halfling slaves against each other in something similar to gladiatorial matches. Those he disliked or who were to be punished were pitted against his starved dogs to be torn apart for his amusement.
While most of the slaves hated the fights Elea revelled in them from an early age. She'd eagerly step into the ring to do battle and was one of the few that actually trained for the fights. She was merely in her early teens when she won the "tournament" her owner had organised. He then pitted her against one of his younger dogs and she handily subdued the animal. Entertained and seeing the possibility of profit her owner then sent her off to a small gladiatorial school where slaves were trained for organised fights.
The slaves there were led by a Gorumite priest and Elea easily fell in with the faith. She was an eager student who quickly learned to compensate for her small size and lack of brawn by using wit and finesse.
She spent several years among the gladiators to learn how to fight. It was during this period she came in touch with the Bellflower Network. The Bellflowers were planning to liberate slaves from Elea's cruel owner but they needed her help. First they made she she'd get sent back home by throwing several fights and causing undue harm in training bouts.
Back home her owner was less than pleased but instead of throwing a potential prize fighter in front of his dogs he had the animals kill her mother and aunt in front of her. Elea then got kennel duty, caring for the dogs that killed her friends and family. When the time to escape came this actually proved to be an enormous boon.
On the day before the night the slaves would escape Elea poisoned the dogs, making sure they'd be too sick and miserable to get out of their pens. That night almost all of the halfling slaves escaped under the cover of darkness and were moved to Kintargo. Not feeling any desire to stay in Cheliax Elea boarded the first vessel she could find and that would take her along, landing her in Riddleport.
A fairly new arrival in Riddleport Elea is now looking for a job as a guard or a bouncer as fighting is all she has ever really done.
