Brim

Her Childhood

Brims father was a Genie of the Efreet kind from the elemental planes, who quite often went to earth to experience the life of mortals. During most of his stays he disguised his appearance so as not to draw attention to himself while he had "some fun". Masking his true form, he seduced a young elf and spend some nights with her before abandoning her out of the blue, afterall those were just mortals and lower lifeforms in his eyes and after he lost interest in them, he saw no more need to stay with them. Unbeknownst to him the elf got pregnant, first she was joyful because she was granted the high honor of bearing a child but the moment the baby was born she felt detested and was horrified by the child as it was born with red skin and fiery hair. 

The elderly in the elfs village immeditaly knew what had happened: A genie was the father of the child. The mother wanted to get rid of the "abomination" but the teaching of her culture and home forbid her to kill an innocent life, so she reluctantly raised her daughter, but was always looking for a way to get rid of her. She finally found her chance when three year later she went into a big city with her daughter and just left her in a dark alley, claiming at home that "she lost the child, couldn't find her anywhere and was devasted over it", of course the whole village knew that she intentionally left her behind, but they were all relieved to finally be releaved of having a bastard genie in their lives.

Becoming a Warlock

Unbeknownst to her "relatives" Brim was able to survive in the alleys, streets and sewerages of the city, hunting for scraps, sleeping in rugs and abonded boxes, stealing food and generally watching other orphans from afar and learning from them while doing so (since none of the other people living on the streets wanted anything to do with her, mainly because of her looks and occasionaly slightly burning hair). By the time Brim was five years old, she was able to fend for herself...and has already forgotten her name that was given to her by her mother. Everyone just called her "freak", "Genasi", "Bastard", "thief" and other unkind words, but that was the life of  an unloved orphan, most of them had already forgotten of their former life or resented the circumstances that brought them to street life.

But even if she was able to survive, hard times were coming and the winter that year got colder than ever and harsher for the street folk. Brim fought tooth and nail to get some food and a somewhat warm place to stay, but everytime she was overpowered by the older and stronger children and they stole her food, clothes and kicked her out of her little selfmade nests. The days got colder and with every hour death came closer to Brim, but she still fought against it and was determined to make it through. On the sixth day of the winter, Brim was laying in the corner of an alley, half frozen and not even having enough energy left to shiver, but the fire in her still burned and she was doing everything possible to her to keep herself awake and not fall asleep, cause deep inside she knew that that would be the end. When it seemed that it would only take a few minuted more to vanquish her flame, a dark silhouette approached her. Not wanting to spend the last minute of her life scared and getting robbed by another stranger, Brim took all her strenght to pull herself up a little bit and glared with fire in her eyes at the figure in front of her. She would go out with dignity and not crying like the other children she has witnessed this winter.

What she didn't know ,was that that figure clad in feathery robes was actually the ruler of Shadowfell, the Raven Queen herself. The Raven Queen was impressed by the will to life by the girl and the fierce personality and in the spurt of the moment she decided to do something unpredictable and asked the child for a deal: She would become one of her warlocks and in exchange the Queen would ensure a "safe" upbringing and training so that she would be able to fight and fend for herself. Brim deceided to take that deal even though she didn't know at the beginning what to feel about that person, but better to live and see another day then to die right then.

Shortly after the Raven Queen send a raven to Brim, that from thenfor took care of her and teached her how to survive on the street and how to fight as a warlock. Sometimes the Raven Queen would talk through her feathered servant to Brim to make certain that she was doing well and that one day she could become one of her followers. All those years on the street and being trained from a young age resulted in Brim becoming a great Warlock. As soon as she was old and strong enough, Brim left the city and started to enforce the Raven Queens will and hunting those that cheated death.

Shortly after the first encounter with the Raven Queen Brim gave herself the name "Brimstone Ravenchild".