Rel’sys, or Rels to her friends, was born and raised in the Cliffside quarter where her father ran a blacksmith shop specializing in arms and armor. As a result, Rels learned to fight young and became rather proficient in reading people and gathering information as she skulked around the docks and shops listening for tales of adventure. She would run home to her younger brothers and regale them with the tales she’d heard throughout the day. Though her family was fortunate enough to live in the Middle-City, her desire to hear stories and learn led her to take more and more daring trips through the city, scaling up walls and running over roofs to get to the upper levels of the quarter where she would hear the best stories.
When the war started she and her middle brother Ven were recruited and both sent to Thrane to observe troop and supplies movement and send back any information you could gather. At the end of the war Rels and Ven were caught snooping around a lightrail yard and Ven was killed in action. The war ended days later and Rels has held onto the bitterness she felt when she realized that the information her brother gave her life for was for nothing.
Returning to Cliffside Middle-City was a definite adjustment. Her father’s business had thrived during her years in the war, the demand for weapons and armor boosting the family’s wealth. Her father and youngest brother Daven had moved to a smaller house in the Upper City but her father allowed her to move into her childhood home above his shop. Daven’s new posting in the city guard had kept her out of a cell the few times she’d gone out drinking to try to forget the sight of Ven dying in her arms, or the times she’d been caught cheating at cards. Her father, her brother and a few childhood friends were all that were keeping her in Sharn, and without some sense of purpose or at least a well paying job, even family and friends weren’t enough to keep her here.
