{The Shining Absalom, Absalom (Ascendant Court)
circa 4711 AR (approximately 8 years old)}

Suddenly, there was a shout, calling a certain name. The little blond girl who was reading the brittle book -or whatever remained of it- answers the call with a bit shouting almost immediately. Then, she carefully closed the book and put it on a desk, where a golden-colored staff with unusual shape was resting at.

The little girl glanced at the staff, which decorated with blue jewels and golden-colored dangling rings. Her eyes were staring at the engraving of songbird-like shape on the largest jewel. After she clasped her hand and prayed a bit, the girl then leave the room...

(META: Ancestry (Human))
(COSMETICS/FLUFFS: Justification for Tian Xia-style staff as [Staff + Religious Symbol (silver)] and Human (Chelaxian-Tian Dan) as Ancestry)

{The Shining Absalom, Absalom (Ascendant Court)
circa 4714-4715 AR (approximately 11-12 years old)}It was already around four or five years since her parents' sailed beyond Absalom to fulfill a task, said was whispered to her mother. During the time, Nilsina was raised as an acolyte in a small Shelyn temple at Ascendant Court. Days spent following the routines in temple and offering prayers in form of dances and singing to the Goddess without fail made her aspired to become a priestess of the Eternal Rose. Due to her frail body, however, Nilsina spent most of her time reading the literature and holy texts inside the temple's study.

Sometimes, she also followed more senior acolytes and priestesses to help neighboring Sarenrae clerics in tending the wounded; usually adventurers who just returned from a quest. The other priestess also sometimes would like to have her with helping preparing and cooking the food for the whole temple and its visitors.

And there was still no sign of her parents...

(META: Background (Acolyte), Class (Cleric; Cloistered Cleric), Trained Skills (Craft, Religion, Medicine, Performance, Lore:Scribing))

{The Shining Absalom, Absalom (The Docks)
circa 4716-4717 AR (approximately 13-14 years old)}It was already around six or seven years since her parents went missing. Days by days, Nilsina always started her day with reading the journal of her father's (or what's left of it), while ended the day by practicing on using her mother's staff in offering prayers to Shelyn. Whenever she wasn't in the study or helping Sarenrae clerics, she often could be found wandering around The Docks. Her eyes were set to the horizons, often crowded by ships. However, her longing gaze seemed like seeing beyond those ships.

Memories of her missing parents often flashed her minds whenever she did this. The time when she was raised with irreplaceable loves of her parents, the time spent hearing her father's story before sleeping, the time spent learning a simplified version of her mother's native language as a 'secret language' for the small family, the time she mimicking her parents when they offer the sing and dance to the Goddess, the time when she saw her parents off to sail somewhere beyond Absalom, the time she spent waiting for the return of her parents to no avail...

She had longed for a journey outside Absalom, hoping to look for her missing parents, while also seeing the world her father often told in his story with her own eyes. However, her fragile physique made Nilsina conscious about herself, thinking that she would only became a burden for people around her if she decided to journey beyond the Isle of Kortos.

However, as if the fate was answering her plea, a senior priestess suddenly asked Nilsina to prepare for accompanying her in visiting another Shelyn temple situated in Andoran, the Birthplace of Freedom. Initially couldn't believe what she heard, Nilsina eventually accepted the offer after confirming the head priestess' approval upon this matter.

(COSMETICS/FLUFFS: Justification for taking Tien (basic) language)

{The Shining Absalom, Shining Kingdoms, Ardoran (Almas - Carpenden Plains)
circa 4717 AR (approximately 14 years old)}Nilsina's dream to journey beyond Absalom eventually come true. After few months of preparations, she sailed to Almas, accompanying her senior priestess to visit a Shelyn temple in Carpenden. Upon reaching Almas, they visited the local Shelyn temple to report their safely arrival to local Shelyn clergy. Without delaying for too long, Nilsina followed the senior priestess to head for Carpenden, the capital of Carpenden Plains.

However, Nilsina wouldn't even imagine that this journey will change her life forever...

Nilsina and the priestess took land route to head for Carpenden. However, they were sidetracked in midway, as they met a group of young adventurers who had just taken a mission to 'exterminate feral goblins' which residing somewhere between Carpenden city and Verduran Forest. Seeing those young and eager adventurers were short on medic specialist, the priestess then decided to accompany those young fellows, at least until they accomplished their mission. The priestess urged Nilsina to stay on a nearby village, as she deemed it was too dangerous for the young acolyte if she came along. However, being a bit headstrong, and didn't want to wait for someone to return, Nilsina somehow managed to convince the priestess for letting her to join as well.

And thus, the priestess and Nilsina ended up accompanying the adventurers, who was delighted to have medics accompanying them.

---and some times after the party went to the 'feral goblins' lair, Nilsina eventually arrived at the city of Carpenden...

...wounded, had her clothing covered with blood and questionable smells, and only accompanied by an adventurer, clad with armors and face hidden behind a helmet. The priestess whom she accompanied with, and most of the young adventurers they met on the way, ended up never reached Carpenden...

(META: Trained Skill (Diplomacy))

{The Shining Absalom, Shining Kingdoms, Ardoran (Carpenden Plains-Arthfell-Verduran Forest)
circa 4718 AR (approximately 15 years old)}It had been a year passed since Nilsina arrived at Carpenden. With the permission of her temple in Absalom, she had been living in the local Shelyn temple after the incident she had around a year ago. However, she spent most of her days outside temple ever since, as she accompanied an adventurer who saved her life in the incident involving the 'feral goblins' back then. Albeit it took almost her everything to keep up with the said adventurer, she ended up following and helping him almost everywhere, in his 'mission' to slay the 'feral goblins'.

She learned and picked up a lot of skills during her adventuring days, learning how to don and make use of a simple chain shirt armor, how to manage living in the urban without relying with the temple, how to survive in the wilds when it required her to do so, and the list goes on. She learned all of them while journeying with other allies: an energetic and hyperactive elven archer, with a stout dwarven sorceror with his endless yet friendly quarrel with the elf.

They had countless adventures and missions together, following the 'feral goblin slayer' everywhere he went to.

(META: Ancestry Heritage (Versatile), Ancestry Feat (Cooperative Nature), General Feat (Armor Training), Trained Skill (Society, Survival))

{The Shining Kingdom, Ardoran (Carpenden - Alvis)
circa 4718-4719 AR (approximately 15-16 years old)}One night, Nilsina heard a soft whisper when she offers a pray to Shelyn before going to bed. She heard something like "journey to the west, spread your wings, o young songbird". At first, she was confused who whispered at her, or where it came from. However, she just dismissed it as being too tired from a difficult mission. On the next few days, however, she kept hearing the whispers, night after night.

And she wouldn't imagine that her life would take another major turn after that night...

One day, the party whom she journeyed with suddenly gave her a news, that they were going to a faraway place from Carpenden. Considering the difficulty of this journey, the party decided that they won't be taking Nilsina, as it would be too arduous for her. Albeit she was dejected upon hearing that, Nilsina eventually part ways with the party, while preparing for a journey to the west.

After finishing her preparations, Nilsina departed toward west, by taking a ship from Alvis to Kintargo...

{The Eye of Cheliax, Ravounell (Kintargo)
circa 4718-4719 AR (approximately 15-16 years old)}Things couldn't be much worse than this. Nilsina arrived at Kintargo safely. However, as this was the first time she went on a long journey by herself, she forgot to take a close look on her surrounding, causing her to lose some of her belongings as a pickpocket snatched her bag just before she disembark the ship. Again, dejected as she screwed up before even doing anything, she wandered around the city to look for local Shelyn temple.

However, finding a temple of Shelyn in Kintargo was ended up more difficult than finding a needle in haystack. After days of aimless wanders, Nilsina found Asmodeus temple after Asmodeus temple, which most of them were almost vacant. After days without result, her spirit started waver, and she started questioning herself, why she would went here, all by herself?

When all hope seemed lost, she suddenly heard rumors about some kind of Pathfinder Society recruiting people to be sent to Arcadia, the faraway continent, west of the Inner Sea. Upon hearing the rumor, Nilsina was reminded with the whispers, and then she immediately went to find the information about the rumored Pathfinder Society.

Again, it's as if the fate is playing some hand, Nilsina eventually found a shady figure---who was initially reluctant to offer a small and frail-looking girl a change to join the arduous voyage to Arcadia. Nilsina eventually managed to convince the shady figure that she aware with the risk during the voyage and willing to take it.

And thus, Nilsina signed a document indicating her agreement to join the Arcadia Reconnaissance Charter...

(COSMETICS/FLUFFS: Joining Pathfinder Society: Arcadia Reconnaissance Charter in Kintargo)