She barely recalls her early childhood, since she was taken at a very young age from her home, and was sold several times as a slave. At her 10th birthday her Gift manifested, and her owner at the time started abusing her badly, always blaming her for misdeeds. So she suffered for 2 years, before she was ordered to serve at a dinner for effluent merchants, and when one of them, a man named Malik, saw how others reacted to her, he offered her owner to buy her off him. She didn't know how he'd react, but she was hoping for a better life than the abusing owner. Luckily for her, Malik wasn't just a merchant, but a redcap, and he brought her to a nearby covenant, where Samir al Akbar resided, who took the arab girl as an apprentice, and teaching her the art of Sihr, which to his astonishment, he found out she was an eager, and capable student.
She seeks to discover more about Jinn, and the ancient secrets of her tradition from before the time they joined the Order.