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Aless was born a feral Hathian. No parents, no kin, no pack. She spent the first few years of her life wandering around, idly playing with the innate magic she had discovered in herself. During one of her trips, she came across an unusal band of travellers that looked very much like her bipedal form. Only wingless. Intrigued and encouraged, Aless shapeshifted and hid her wings with her illusion magic. She was taken in by the Plainswalker Tribe and adopted by a pair that had been unable to produce offspring of their own.

For years Aless lived like this, only reverting to her Hathian form for the occasional flight. She grew with her peers, earned the ranks of a Huntress, and even had a few courtiers pestering her parents. However, she knew this could not last forever. Sooner or later, someone would discover what she really was and she would be outcast. Aless lived everyday in fear of this outcome. What she did not know was that the Alpha had already found her out.

Despite her fears, she was not immediately revealed to the rest of the tribe. Alpha Uruth took her aside one day and had a chat with her about what he knew. He explained to her that hiding behind illusions was not the way of the lirons. If she wanted to have pride in herself, then she must come to terms with what she really was. He suggested she go on a journey, sample new lands and people. When she returned, she might be able to talk to her family without her fears being realized.

Taking these words to heart, Aless bid farewell to her tribe and struck off in a new direction. She soon found the Warren and from there, a universe full of possibilities.

The Firecaverns have been good for her. She arrived at them by way of Vilyarus, another Star City expat (she spent some time at Star City) who found his way to the Caverns after Star City’s fall. The place is about as different from the wilds of Tris’Hath as one can get: in climate, in population, in just day-to-day life. It’s been an adjustment but she’s weathered it well despite a certain tendency towards hideboundness: it’s stretched hr boundaries and her notions of what’s normal, and that’s exactly what she came out here to do.

To learn and broaden herself. To return to her family someday, with all that knowledge.

Vilyarus, friend