Siobhan Cassia

Siobhan Cassia is a Cartesian(part of Provincial Rowen) sorceress in the employ of Naomi Jusenkyou. She wears her jet-black hair cut short, and her face has high cheekbones framing narrow blue eyes. Her face is somewhat flattish in shape, and her skin is dark, nearing on yellowish.

Early Life

Siobhan was born into one of the coal mining villages on the slopes of the mountains outside the central Rowen valley. She began training as a healer from a very young age, assisting her maternal grandmother with the various miner's injuries. Her mother, father, and two sisters all worked in the mine. Her father as a "getter" and her sisters and mother as hurriers.

When Siobhan was eight years old, her grandmother died. Being not yet advanced enough in her magics to heal on her own, Siobhan was forced to go to work in the mines. For the first year she worked a door, sitting alone in total darkness, opening and closing it as the hurriers came by dragging their corves.

Since she was not strong enough to pull a corve by herself and her elder sisters were already working for him as hurriers, at the age of nine Siobhan was sold to another miner. Slavery is of course rampantly illegal in Rowen, even indentured servitude, but in the mining villiges of Provincial Rowen many such practices are carried out all the same. Siobhan will not speak of what happened during that time, but she ran away after only a few weeks in the stranger's employ.

Itinerant Years

Between 507-513, Siobhan worked as an itinerant servant in the outer provinces. The surplus of labor from the Cartesian famine made wages scarce. Siobhan lived most of this time on a starvation diet, earning just enough to stay alive and nothing more. She would bathe in mountain streams and forage for extra food. The best jobs were as a scullery made, where she would receive table scraps along with money. During this time she continued to pursue magic, learning from whomever she could. Many Rowens knew magic, so teachers were plentiful. By this time, Siobhan knew