Meredith was born in FA 1790 to a family of poor Heartlanders. She was only 6 when people began fleeing the disasters in Arcas. Existing on the edges of the Kingdom of Norland, her existence was one of survival and subsistance. The girl's mother, Sarah, often went for food, water and herbs. On one particular time, her sister, Emily had fallen down and received a cut. The healer was far from their small home, and so their mother produced a poultice of Tippens Root to heal her wound. This was the first time the young youth knew her calling was healing. Her father, Bjorn, was a woodcutter and some would say a hunter. Often he laboured for a small wage of minas to afford food, and poached for food when they could not. This sense of inequality stuck with the girl. As a young child she would venture into the wilderness, along with her sister and father. This was to teach them how to hunt, fish, chop wood and important learn the properties of local flora and fauna. Such as not to eat a fruit from a tree if its infected with Ant Blight due to its disgusting taste, how to turn fallen Alabaster Leaf into poisons to tip their spears and how to hunt Greymane boar.
The wilderness often fascinated the young girl, along with its aspects. A small shrine to Cerridwen was erected in their gardens to ward of pests, and she often went down their during spring to present her offerings of fruit, and sometimes she received strange dreams about a tree.. A relatively peaceful upbringing was brought short when the locals discovered her parents pagan faith, a heresy against the Red Faith. On her 17th birthday, she received her mothers recipe book, detailing the herbs and flora in the area and she felt elated. Emily received a spear of her own to help her father. It was a quiet evening, they had just settled down to bed when Meredith heard a knock at the door. A small army of locals shouted and screamed that her mother was a witch. Grabbing her sister she ran out the back to hide in the woods, but Sarah, the older of the two went back to rescue their parents. All she saw was a bonfire in the distance, smoke billowing into the crystal clear air. Later, she returned to the area to find a burnt out wooden husk and the ashes of her family.
Somehow, she needed to avenge their deaths.
