Born in a small village in the very southernmost jungles of Elsweyr, and was taught from a young age to fight and dance and otherwise survive in a world very hostile to those of khajiiti blood. In her tenth autumn, Rhene was accused of the poisoning and attempted murder of the clan leader and a visiting Moon-Singer, and subsequently banished. While making her way northward, she was stopped and nearly caught by a pair of slavers - a Nord named Stenis and a Dunmer named Mirisa - and accidentally killed Mirisa while escaping their clutches. After wandering and becoming a proficient thief, Rhene joined the Thieves' Guild in Abah's Landing at the age of 15, and spent a year or two in the Guild, helping solve a longtime mystery regarding the disappearance of the former guildmaster, Nicolas, and developing a romantic relationship with an Altmer named Quen. Near the end of that time, though, Rhene-daro (as she was now known) felt the irresistible itch of the wandering life, and left the city with only the briefest of warnings to her half-asleep girlfriend.

Rhene continued wandering Tamriel in search of new landscapes and new adventures, and about two years after the Soulburst, was captured on a cart ride from the city of Evermore in Bangkorai to Solitude in Western Skyrim. She and her fellow traveller, an Altmer vampire named Fennorian, were taken prisoner by a coven of witches, and she was left with a strange black scar in the center of her back.

From this point on, she has gone down the following order of storylines in the Elder Scrolls Online story, with some sidetracks for adventure along the way:

Greymoor > Main Story/Aldmeri Dominion > Coldharbour > Markarth (in which she became temporarily possessed by the Dark Heart, and still retains some traces of its influence, particularly in certain strange abilities and a certain detachment of the soul) > Vvardenfell > Summerset > Year of the Dragon > Gates of Oblivion