Potamaki was born in Cicero. She was a scribe for powerful men and women for most of her life, though she felt unfulfilled. She worked hard, but she saw little pay. Eventually, she moved to Pallania, where she hoped to find better treatment and a richer life. What she found instead was sickness and sorrow. She helped as she could, but nothing seemed to affect the elf-killer disease. She found work, settled down, and fought depression. She took work with the Monsapple Trading Corporation, which spanned many continents, and she found herself traveling the world. And hating it. She quit her job and went home to Ranu, and she began wandering until she came to the monastery by the mountain. She heard the Mountain speak, and she was immediately made an acolyte. For thirty years, she lived in peace. Recently, her fellow monk Furio della Tornare has asked her to join him in saving his grandchildren...

On her journey with her are Furio della Tornare and a stranger who often visits the monastery, a man called The Hardfoot.