Skyreaver was raised among her people in the spine of the world mountains, where when her runes were cast at birth, they prophesied both a lifetime of great power and great suffering. Skyreaver was given to the shaman of her tribe and taught the ways of the druid, learning to speak for the land and ensure that her people lived in balance with both nature and the spirits of the first world. At the ripe old age of 12 Skyreaver had learned all that she could from her master and was returned to her clan to lead them in maintaining the fragile balance. Seeing her home for the first time, she did not immediately understand what was happening: all of the huts in the village were on fire, and all of the adult members of her clan were dead, impaled upon spikes. Skyreaver also saw the unmistakable signs of passage of a large number of feet moving in a single file line. On the 3rd day of her pursuit, she caught up with the slavers who had taken the children of her tribe. Collecting a large group of stones, she spoke to their spirits and they agreed to help her in her quest.
When the search expedition of the Zhentarim arrived several weeks later looking for the group of slaves it had been promised, they found both the slaves gone and all of the slavers dead, killed by rocks which appeared to have been shot right through them. Several of the slavers who were not killed by the rocks had wounds consistant with something heavy and blunt like a greatclub or tree trunk. Given the method of attack, the commmander of the search party ordered any salvageable equipment taken and then they retreated from the mountain.
For her part, Skyreaver was in a troubling position: she had trained to be the shaman of a specific tribe, which no longer existed. She decided to make her way into the lowlands and act as an ambassador of both her people and the spirits. In order to survive, she has taken up the life of an adventurer.
