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Born in a small Human frontier town, Kelanna Levin, was born to the mayor of Highburg in late winter. The town didn't have too much going on, only being a small trapper lodge for a long time before more human settlers moved in and turn it into a village. Life was peaceful for the first 10 winters of her life, not a thing to worry about as the only daughter of the leader, and she grew up knowing happiness and content.

Tragedy struck during her 11th winter however, as not long after her birthday she was taken to the nearest city and allowed to browse the large markets with a small gift of coin. She even got herself a beautiful dress with it. While the trip there was nice, on the way back a blizzard stuck, and her carriage was caught up in the storm, falling from the slick mountain roads, and Kelanna tumbled down a ravine.

She didn't wake up for several hours, and when she did she could feel nothing but pain all over her body, save for her legs, which she couldn't feel at all. For hours she wept and cried for help but it seemed like nobody knew she was down at the bottom. She slowly started to lose consciousness as the cold started to take her and night started to fall.

A single black feather landed on her face before she slipped away, and looking up she saw a jet black raven staring down at her, tilting its head curiously. Before Kelanna could dismiss the carrion bird, its beak opened up and an indescribable voice echoed out, one she can't manage to describe even to this day. It asked a single question. "Do you want to live?"

With next to no hesitation, and despite her fear of the voice, she answered with a cracked voice 'Yes', and the bird flew down and pecked her in the neck. After a short burning sensation she felt much better, as if all the numbness in her body had disappeared, and could even move her legs. She felt fantastic, and back to normal, all save for a blinding white in her eyes, brushing it aside thinking it was snow she saw that it was her own hair.

It wasn't long after that that a few men peaked over the side of the ravine, and yelled to her. They got excited when she yelled back at them, and a little bit longer and ropes where being tossed down the cliff face as she was rescued. She happily embraced her mother; however her father stared at her dumbfounded, noticing her hair immediately.

After a long ride back to her village she was taken away and locked in her room for reasons she couldn't understand. Meals started to only come to her room, and she was never allowed to leave it, though thankfully she had a window she could look out. The winter quickly passed into spring, and the following summer a stranger in a robe came into the village and right for her home.

Coming into her room he introduced himself as Gaius, and explained that he was from the near city's wizard school; and after several minutes of poking and prodding and questioning he left back out, and started to talk with her parents again. With ear pressed to wood she over heard him say that while she had been touched by some sort of magic, it was not harmful, and that he would like to take her back with him to study at his school. She caught how angry her father was and heard him yelling at the wizard to leave, saying she would never be involved in such things ever again.

The summer quickly passed back into winter, then back into summer, and she sat locked up in her room, with naught but her mother to visit her, and books to entertain herself with; the few times her father came into her room he always seemed to avoid locking eyes with her, keeping them lowered to the floor as if over taken by a deep sadness. And every day she woke up, and every night before she went to sleep a rapping would be heard on her window, and the phrase 'Fulfill the contract' was spoken, but every time she opened the window naught was there.

Everything was peaceful, if not boring for a long while. That was, until the year of her 17th winter, deep in the summer, the tolling of loud bells could be heard, and not long after the acrid taste of smoke in the air burned at her tongue. She looked out the window and saw what looked like a small army of little green men riding wolves, holding sharp blades in one hand, and torches in the other.

The attack by the goblin war band was swift, and the hunters of the village had no time to properly react before they where upon every house in the village, the screams of humans being harmed echoed out, and not long after bright yellow flames over taking the simple thatched roofs. It wasn't long at all before the green men regrouped and headed for the largest house in the village, hers. Wasting no time she did her best to clamber out of the window as they entered the home, climbing out onto the room and leaping down onto a large wagon of hay, very painfully. She took the opportunity to sneak away from the village and into the forest below, looking up at her home with tears in her eyes.

After getting far enough away from her village that she would not be discovered she slumped down on a large stump, hands covering her face to hide her tears, when the ever familiar voice cried out from above her, 'Fulfill the contract.' Looking upwards in a look of rage at the stalking voice she saw once again the Bird she saw 7 years ago, the day that her hair turned white, the day her father stopped loving her. At first she blamed him for it all, screaming angrily at the bird until she had gotten it all out of her system. But the bird only repeated the same phrase as it had always been saying.

After her stomach started to cave, and she started to feel weak from hunger and exhaustion she looked back at the bird, that had been preening itself and muttered to it that she would. The bird fluttered down from it's roost and landed on her shoulder, and started to whisper into her ears, everything, the secrets it had seen in the years, the secrets of magic it knew, how to survive on her own. Teaching her she slowly grew in power, learning how to master simple feats of magic, learning how to catch food for herself, and heal her wounds.

After a year of this she grew tired of living all on her lonesome, eking out a living in the woods, and the raven guided her to a nearby caravan making its way along the forest edge. She quickly worked her way into the caravan, convincing the wanders to let her live with them and explore the world, while they taught her the trade skill of fortune telling. It wasn't real magic, but the commoners didn't know that, and would pay well to hear things that they wanted to hear, and using that money to buy food.

One day the hamlet that had parked outside of, saw a familiar sight to Kelanna, Green men running into the village, torch in hand. With grit teeth she left her tent, and wandered in to meet them, and when one charged her from up top a dog, he fell to a lash of snow white hair, being crushed under near it, and the dog fled. When a few others got near she turned their hands to them, and a great gout of flames spewed from the palm, lighting them up and causing them to run in terror. A couple more started to come at the danger that was the young witch, but where pegged in the head by an expertly launched volley of arrows.

Those who survive ran out of the village and away. The archer introduced himself as a Chronicler, in town to pick up some lore on a nearby ruins; and mentioned that she had talent, suggesting that she head towards the Pathfinder Society and sign up to put her skill in magic to good use.

Taking his words to heart, and looking down at the crushed goblin, and smoldering goblin clothing she agreed, if she wanted to prevent things from happening to innocent people like had happened to her own village and family, she needed to get stronger and use her talents to better the world. And with that she head off to join the Society. Raven on her shoulder letting out a smug caw.