Financial hardship made her first few years of life difficult, material possesions kept to a minimum, most being sold off so that her parents could keep the family's dire situation from getting worse. At the tender age of two, brother, six years her senior, had been sent out to work, the chance to properly know him now whisked away. Spending her youth in the small industrial town of Briswood on the shores of the Glacial sea should have been a character building experience but Tiana-Marie had been sheltered by her parents and denied even a decent chance to bond with her sole sibling.