Bare bones to be filled in later with more detail -

Young - 15 or 16 maybe. 3rd of 5 children born to Meriel and Zeb Proudshadow.

VERY sheltered by parents who were "saving" her for their special night - the night they sacrifice her to a dark god for power enough to live up to their surname.

Tis this point, they are living on the outskirts of Duirt - poor farmers, isolated due to being "surly" neighbors. This is because they don't want folx to know that they are, in fact, in cahoots with less than savory deities in an attempt to rise above their station.

They get ratted out by said neighbors on suspicion - and rightly so - of their odd shenaniganry, busted by the Ecclesians, and offer up the girl to them as part of their penance before they skip town to continue their nefarious deeds elsewhere.

She's naïve, a bit mousy, a touch otherworldly. She also has latent psionic abilities that manifest when she is stressed our or surprised. Her parents figured as much, and early on, which is why she was chosen amongst their other children for this momentous event.

Once the Ecclesians got their hands on her (er, I mean "rescued her"), and realized what they had, she was shipped straight to the Cathedral ... for her own good.

She thrives there, in the quiet, but is learning more and more about the real world as she ventures into it.