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Born in Anqyllat and raised by a loving family Marjoline had every advantage in the world. Her father was a decorated soldier who's skilled hand and tempered steel were renowned across the northern kingdom. Upon entering adulthood Marjoline followed in her father's footsteps and became a guardsman.

A year into her training the dreaded Shanka migrated down out of the High Places and began raiding the region. The crown mustered a small army to deal with the threat, Marjoline's father among them. A season passed and the army returned, thoroughly blooded.

Her father was missing.

Marjoline went alone into the wilds with a desperate hope that he was alive. Along the road north is where the monsters found her, the Shanka lured in by a half crazed woman with fiery hair. Some stories state that is when Stranger-Come-Knocking intervened to save her life--But those who knew the girl believe she fought off the Shanka single-handedly, thus impressing the Imposter-King.

Her father's frozen and dismembered corpse lie just off the road, now surrounded by the monsters who slew him. Marjoline avenged his death, seemingly inheriting his skill with a blade. Stranger-Come-Knocking recruited her into his growing dozen right there on the spot, bestowing on Marjoline a new name full of glory and blood.

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