Backstory: Aliza Cornet was born on the 27th day of the month of Nightal. Her mother was a teacher in the small village of about 50 people where she was born, called Holden. Her father served as captain of the guard. Her life was uneventful for 10 years in the peaceful village - until one day a man appeared in the village. He seemed like an ordinary traveller who decided to stay for a few days. Aliza did note that he had something special about him - a tattoo of a skull on the back of his head. She had noticed it one day when his red cloak had slipped and was not covering his head. He was bald, she also noted, and even had no eyebrows. Soon after, the villagers began to bicker and argue among themselves. They divided into two factions and eventually there was a day where a villager was killed. Soon after, a virtual civil war began, Finally, a day came where the two sides fought each other in an actual melee. Her father had built her a small shelter, which she and the other children all hid in. For about an hour they all waited inside, and when the sounds of killing stopped outside, they decided to come out for a look. Aliza could see that the side with her parents had won - and that both her parents were still alive! The adults gathered in the center circle while the kids remained by the shelter. Aliza noticed the strange man standing atop their watchtower - she thought she could him shoot a little star out of his hands - a tiny, shining star - before it hit right in the center of town and incinerated everyone in the area. Horrified, Aliza and the other children ran into the shelter and waited.

She hid in the shelter with the other children, all of them too afraid to act. The man had gone through the town, killing what adults had still remained. When he entered the shelter, he saw the children all cowering. He stood there for a few moments before leaving without doing anything or saying a word. Later that day, an elderly man she knows as Galen came along and discovered all of them. He brought them to a college where they train people to become wizards. Aliza knew this was her chance! She would be able to bring about justice to the man who caused all the problems for her village - the man who killed her parents. She would fight for goodness and virtue and justice, like in the stories her father had told her at night.

Her training began with Galen and she quickly grasped the basics of spellcasting with her amazing intellect. She became obsessed with how magic worked - often staying late after class to ask her instructor questions, reading books whenever she could, and sometimes sneaking into the school's library after night had fallen, even though it was against the rules. To that end, she decided to specialize in the school of Abjuration - the school that interacted with magic the most. She found herself less interested in the ideals of other schools, and quickly realized she had a distaste for two things - the domain of unlife was one that did not appeal to her, and also spells that manipulated the mind. She assumed the man that killed her parents had used some sort of mind trick to make all the adults fight one another.

As the years passed, Aliza lost sight of her ideals of goodness and justice. She became, like most wizards, uninterested, and simply interested in perfecting her art of spellcasting. When she graduated from the College of Arcane Training (CAT) in the Dalelands, she was the top of her class by a mile - winning every contest, official or not, with her fellow students - making the best grades on every exam, both written and practical - and proving that she was the best among her peers, and even better than some of the instructors! Three children about her age from the village also graduated - Tom Izzo, who was a year older than her, William Jones, who was her age, and Emma Smith, who was 2 years younger.

She left the CAT with only the gold and equipment given to all graduates from the college. She still had the gloves from her mother, and the necklace from her father, and an unyielding desire to perfect arcane magic. She remember as clear as the day it happened the face of the man that robbed her of her parents. She vowed, one day, to claim revenge.