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Sen was born into the Yamakawa family, an Elven noble House fallen on hard times and who fled their traditional estates in the country after they were occupied by rampaging orcs. The family currently occupies apartments in the city, which it funds through credit, some rents from other properties it owns in the city, and the so-called generosity of relatives. Steadfastly obsessed with All Things Noble and Appropriate, her father, the patriarch, has refused to accept that the being landed gentry will no longer fill the family coffers with gold, and he has therefore seized upon the tried and true means of marrying off his only daughter to Ishihara Akihiro, the oldest son of the up and coming trade family. Sen suspects that there might be some underground connections in the Ishihara empire, but as intriguing as that might be, Sen refuses to kowtow to tradition and has instead fallen in with the Twilight Roses, a band of brigands, pickpockets, thieves, and grifters who operate out of a tea house in the theatre district dubbed Sunkaraku ("Evanescent Joys")by Kimura Fumiko, an elven geisha similarly fallen on hard times.

Sen has taken up with Kitao Gimbar, the group's dwarven master trapsmith, largely because doing so would irritate her father, if he knew, and because Gimbar provides valuable help as Sen and the Twilight Roses stage thefts and cons, the proceeds of which Sen funnels into the family funds with the help of Suzuko Tatsumi, the family steward. Sen knows that Tatsumi skims off the top of what she brings back, but so long as he keeps her father in the dark about the real state of their finances (her father is a bit of a spendthrift, especially where her brother Yamakawa Hiroaki and his debts are concerned), Sen and Tatsumi get along swimmingly. Between the two of them, they have managed to keep the family afloat, though Sen has her eye on bigger prizes.