Summary

Before she was a spirit, Natara was once a human diplomat, part of the Azurum family. The Azurums had been on their city's council for generations, and were fairly well known across the desert, and were popular with the people for their advocacy on equal rights between the poor and the rich. Unknown to the public however, their money had been running low. Forced to make ends meet, they pledged Natara's hand to Councillor Abbadon, not realizing that he had been sabotaging their businesses in order to get her hand.

This did not sit well with Natara, having fallen wildly head over heels for a charming young thief she caught trying to steal one of her favourite porcelain vases in her home. Under the cover of night, she escaped with Raia, only to learn the news that the Azurum family was being attacked by mercenaries. Desperate to protect her family, she returned, only to find the notorious Councillor himself in a fit of rage. With a fit of laughter, Councillor Abandon smited them both where they stood for the careful secret she kept about her true lover.

This wasn't the end for Raia, however - an umbra spirit floated into her fading consciousness, offering her a deal. It would fuse with her, and let her live, long enough to see Raia, it promised, only if she carried on its work in its place: to uphold the value of lust by cruelly making the wrong people fall in love with each other. Desperate, Natara took the plea, and so centuries of her duty began.

As time passed, Natara soon discovered that her former lover was, in fact, alive - fused into a spirit by a more benevolent entity. Though balancing the natures of a spirit can be difficult, needless to say the two were overjoyed to find the other alive again, and have vowed to spend the rest of their eternity together, in some way protecting the city hidden in the desert where their love was able to persist among the ruins.