A Rise in Power

Rakse was raised the youngest daughter of a moderately wealthy family of Drow in the merchant district of the Unlit City. She began the study of magic at an early age, dissatisfied with the prospects of life as a merchant and unwilling to devote herself to divine pursuits. She left home and began earnestly training as a mage as soon as she was able, finding herself most apt at elemental magics and offensive arcane arts. She enrolled herself in the guild of invokers in Seringale and began renting a room in a nearby building. Disdainful of rote memorization and study without practical application, she began sneaking out of the city after nightfall to raid and plunder the settlements around Seringale. She terrorized the villiage of goblins, tormented the ogres of Drkshyre, and set fire to the Southern farmlands, all under the cover of night. She sold her spoils to various vendors in the Eastern cities of Thera and began collecting jewelry and trinkets, of which she is extremely fond. She eventually purchased the title to a minor Earldom to the east of Darkhaven and became properly titled a Countess. Seeking more power than can be provided from her craft alone, she found Davairus to be the patron deity most fit to her personality, and began following the tenets of his religion to see if he would favor her.