Henriette the Glamorous's name was known all throughout the Empire of Cheliax and the neighbouring countries. Starting her career as a brilliant and promising prodigy studying at the Egorian Academy of the Magical Arts, the golden-haired maiden soon became a welcome face around the empire's outlying settlements as she made a name for herself with the Riders of the Rising Star, a group of adventurers dedicated to protecting the weak from roving monsters and opporunistic bandits. It was also with this adventuring company that Henriette met Gustaf, a hellknight-turned-champion of Sarenrae, who slowly grew from friend to lover.
Years went by, and the two realized that adventuring was beginning to take its toll on their bodies. Eventually, after a successful raid on a duergar colony in the darklands, Henriette and Gustaf decided to retire from the adventuring life and settle down in Breachill, a small Isgeri town that provided them with an open door and warm bed on more than one adventure. To the people of Breachill, Henriette the Glamorous and Gustaf Sunrider were now Enrika and Gustaf Axer, a pair of eccentric stablemasters with a treasure trove of heroic tales to tell the kids.
Rakael Axer grew up on these stories, their thrilling details springing to life in her active imagination. She was the eldest of three siblings - her twin younger brothers, Belor and Haines, aided their parents in operating the stables, while Rakael was encouraged to follow in her mother's footsteps and study the arcane arts. She even went on a so-called "adventure" to the deserts of Garund to try gain a more practical understanding of magic, but the expedition fizzled when word arrived of the return of the Whispering Tyrant, and the resulting turmoil throughout Avistan. Rakael returned home to find that her parents were summoned to bolster the ranks of Lastwall, and it wasn't long before the dreaded message arrived that they too fell victim to the lich's forces.
The Axers' deaths devastated their children. The heroes who felled many a beast and saved countless commoners were somehow bested, and left their scions without much more than a stable and a few trusty steeds. While Belor and Haines took ownership of the stable, Rakael decided to take up her parents' mantle and give her brothers a new shining champion to look up to. Thus, armed with a makeshift staff and her pet ferret Ranks, Larachelle the Dazzling heeds the Call for Heroes as her first step in what would either become a disastrous end to the Axer family or a new legend to follow her parents'.
