Elodie grew up in Korvosa, only daughter and third child of Kronal and Marvasi DeVarre. Her parents and two of her brothers are historians - scholarly researchers. Her other brother, Abasil, wandered as an adventurer for a while, before settling in Trunau, working for their Militia.
Elodie always had a wanderlust about her and supplimented her studies with arcane practice, though she never actually studied at the famed Acadamae.
Deciding she's learned as much as she can from books, she decided Trunau was good a starting place for investigative research as any, given the rumours of ruins in the Mindspin Mountains and the savage frontier being relatively unexplored.
Despite her comparative outgoing nature, Elodie is still somewhat shy for an adventurer, and her abilities lack "field-testing" being mostly theoretical or practiced in safe conditions. So she has a certain lack of confidence that will fade over time. She comes alive when learning new things, particularly of an arcane or historical note.