Xanaphia was born in distant Magnimar to parents who were themselves magicians, they travelled with her as a baby to Magnimar and then vanished. She has vague memories of a pretty woman and a serious stern faced man but the details are lost to her, as she was no more than 2 years old when they vanished.
She was far more fortunate than most orphan's it seemed that before their disappearance her parents had become friends with the Hancock family moderately wealthy nobles in Kenebras . Originally looking after Xanaphia while her parents were away they eventually realized that Xanaphia's Parents were not returning and formally adopted her.
Xanaphia was a somewhat sickly child prone to chills and always somewhat pallid. It also seemed that her curiosity about her missing parents had made her somewhat morbid often visiting graveyards to stare across the fields of stones. As she got older this gradually stopped as she became more socially aware and turned to dominating her social group. As she matured she began to show sparks of magical talent and her foster parents turned to some old contacts who were able to determine the worrying fact that her bloodline seemed to be tied to the undead, a worrying discovery and one which the family tried to keep secret. It was particularity odd as her mother had been a sorceress with a celestial bloodline it seemed a new taint had entered the bloodline which boded ill for the fate of her parents.
She had begun to develop an interest in her Varisian roots meeting with and associating with several groups of varisians who has come to aid in the Crusade. There she took to the religious attitudes of a group from Magnimar , finding their devotion to the Empyreal lords a change from the stuffy church of Iomedea. A Harrow casting revealed to her her patron Arshea in her role as the liberator and the cards seemed to that liberation to her parents. She also discovered that her mother's patron had been Arshea whilst her father a wizard had favored Pulura.
Her magical talents had started to reach full bloom and she was trying to persuade her foster parents to allow her to join one of the crusader groups when the festival came along. She was with her foster family outside the cathedral when the Demons attacked and she plummeted into the depths the fate of her foster family unknown
