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History/background: Eden was born to the Mac Cionaoith family inside of Connacht, in Ireland, to a bloodline of mages on her father’s side who are called the Children of Fedelm in reference to the prophetess in the Tain Bo Cuailnge. Theories on the bloodline say that they’re her descendents, or descendants of Queen Medb herself, but that’s all speculation. What remains of her bloodline, however, is her immediate family; her father and her two brothers. Her mother is a good Catholic who married into the family without knowledge of what she was getting into, and she remains unaware to a certain extent.

It was Eden’s father who was the mage, and he was the one who trained her, but it came at a price. Their family magic was never easy to call, and every spell called for a retribution and a ritual. At a very young age, Eden was her father’s retribution in blood. Instead of casting the spells and then accepting the consequences, he turned the consequences on her as a sacrifice. This caused Eden to have poor health as a child. This went further when she became part of his ritual, and in a ritual that lasted a year he sliced her legs open, hiding it with an illusion. Another time he burst all the vessels in her left ear, the resulting infection left untreated and scarring her inner ear, leaving her deaf. As part of her training, she wasn’t allowed to speak of it. The abuse mounted until it culminated in her eventual abandoning of her family, proclaiming a curse on her father’s head for his cruelty and her mother for her ignorance. However, if the curse took is unknown by her, as she didn’t stick around to see.

After leaving her family’s house she went to Ulster during the call off of the Cease-fire in the nineties. She saw the IRA as something that she could support, as a cause she could be loyal to and often tied the unification to the duty of her bloodline; at this time she took the associations with Fedelm, the Tain Bo Cuailnge and Cuchulainn as literal. She joined in a manner as a gunrunner. She smuggled guns from place to place, learning as she went, lying about her age and to an extent about her gender. She dealt arms; but she wasn’t picky. She would smuggle drugs if needed. When the Belfast agreement was signed, she found herself deeply disturbed by the sudden lack of violence; not because she liked it, but because her life had never been without violence. She was 17 at the time.