As the youngest daughter of the noble Shine House ,Lorna seemed destined for a life as a political pawn. This did not sit well, and from an early age she deliberately defied every expectation placed upon her. Her mother had the finest craftsmen of Kingdom fashion the most lifelike dolls for her to play with—but Lorna gave them to her maids, and took up her eldest brother's rapier, forcing him to give her lessons in secret. Her father obtained a set of dressmaking mannequins for her personal seamstress to craft wondrous gowns—but Lorna merely used them to practice her lunges and ripostes.