Mina

Before Exile
Mina was born in a small Shemite village on the edge of a small forest. The locals mostly worshiped Derketo. It was not an exciting village, and the folks were rather superstitious and reserved, not uncommon for most small minded villagers.

At a very young age Mina started to 'hear voices'. It started innocently enough to be passed off as childish imagination, but when some of the things she 'heard' proved to be accurate, the villagers started becoming fearful. As she got older, the voices grew stronger and the things they told her more precise, but her grip on sanity seemed to be slipping as well, making the villagers fear of her even stronger.

At approximately seven years old the village decided they could no longer keep the strange child and they banished her from the village. For anyone else, it would have been a death sentence. However, Mina had some advantages, as the 'voices' seemed to be able to offer some assistance, as well as strange abilities. Sporadic as the abilities functioned, it was enough to help her. Outside of that, she skipped from one village to another, never entering except at night to steal what she could to survive, while the villagers were locked up tight in their homes against the dark. Scavenging became second nature, whether it was the left over kills of hunters or the bodies of the dead.

For at least a decade or so Mina survived this way, picking up a few survival skills along the way of course, but some lack of social skills do to her lack of contact with people. Her luck had to run out eventually, however, even with the help of her 'voices', and one day she quite literally stumbled into a slaver camp. The slavers thought they had quite the prize at first. A young girl, in good shape with good teeth and interesting features, once they cleaned her up. It didn't take long, however, for them to start having the same fears that her village had. If anything, the voices had grown more powerful during her years alone, and the slavers called her 'Mad', and wanted desperately to be rid of her. As they were already headed to the Exiled Lands, they decided the simplest method of ridding themselves of the madwoman was to string her up with the others. And so they did.

Exiled
Despite the slavers hopes, Mina the Mad did not die on the cross, but managed to free herself instead. She made her way into the Exiled Lands, unaware of how drastically it would change her life.