Alyssa was not exactly sure where she was born, or how far from Stonegate it was, because she does not know where Stonegate truly is. She woke up one day and was lying outside, so she decided to call Stonegate her hometown after learning what it was.

Alyssa's mother was a slave, and she was born while her mother was in servitude, so it's only natural for her to believe that one of the many slavers fathered her. It's because of this she will probably never know her father. Her mother tried to help her escape so she wouldn't be a slave, by giving her to one of the less ruthless slavers, and she begged him to let little Alyssa be free, in exchange for her very own life. The man agreed to it, and brought her to a wizened old man. This man took care of her for the next few years, teaching her to read and write.

When she was but five years old, the very same man came back to where she was living, killed the man that had raised her, tied her up, and took her back to the dungeon. She was chained to a wall, and the first thing she noticed was her mothers limp body. She cried for several days, after finally realizing she was dead. During the next few years, she was forced to do menial chores for the slavers, such as cleaning the floors of their disgusting manor. She was forced to learn how to cook for them, as well as serve them drinks and food. Every night she was chained back up and forced to look at her mother's slowly deteriorating corpse.

All this continued until she was about 12 years old, by now her mother's corpse was nothing more than a dried skeleton. She wanted to cry, but there were no tears left. By now she was beginning to mature and become smarter. She started slacking off in her chores, and tried to escape several times...but all that ended up, they began whipping her when she was chained back up every night.

The next few years after that was more of the same chores, and whippings day after day, some of the slavers even thought she was "old enough" to be taken. She blatantly refused every single time, but they just simply took her by force. The only "plus" side to all of this was they actually fed her and bathed her, and eventually let her walk free within the dungeon. At this point it isn't even really a positive thing being fed and bathed...She lost the will to live many times..but always regained it for one reason or another.

One day, a cat seemed to appear...Alyssa figured it had just wandered in one night while she slept. She befriended the cat, and always saved even the tiniest bit of her meals to give to it, and the cat was satisfied. Eventually, the slavers came into the dungeon one day and saw her petting the cat. They got very angry. One of them shoved Alyssa aside, pulled the cat up by the back of the neck, slid his dagger out of its sheathe, and cut the cat's head clean off, and laughed. The girl screamed, and tried to cry, but very few tears came out. The laughing slaver turned to her, shoved her down, and took her, trying to shut her up.

The pain, torture, and raping continued for two more years. She woke up one morning, blood was splattered everywhere. She had suffered the most brutal whipping she had ever had a few hours before, so she was feeling a lot of pain, and her vision was blurry. She suddenly heard footsteps coming down the stairs, followed by a bloodcurdling scream. A body tumbled down the stairs and to where she was, and she recognized it as the man that had taken her to the old man almost 16 years ago.

However, the footsteps continued. A man came into her view; at least she thought it was a man. They were clad from head to toe in gold armor with silver markings here and there. They wielded two swords. One was made purely of Fire, and the other was made purely of Ice. Her pain was so great thatshe couldn't do anything but pass out.

When she awoke, she was laying on a dirt road. Her clothes were the same as she were wearing when in servitude, tattered and torn, but at her side, on the ground rested a belt with a scabbard on it, the scabbard containing a silver saber. She stood up weakly, and pulled the belt on around her waist. She noticed there were some very strange tracks in the ground, and they all went southward towards a giant gate made of stone. She walked towards it, and a robed man was there as if waiting for her. He told her his name was Denstom, and that if she was lost, he would help her. She nodded, not sure if he was true or not, but he had a strange attitude that made her trust him. It turns out that he was the retired leader of a group of knights, and that he now trains young once to be like he was.

Alyssa had decided to train under him and hope that she would be able to one day find the man that she thinks rescued her. Denstom told her a lot about the town and the many diverse inhabitants. He told her about the many shopkeepers, and the adventures she may have, and lastly told her that she should clean out the sewers to the south west of the city, to learn basic fighting techniques, she smiled for the first time in 17 years, and left the stables, heading off towards the fountain she saw to the south.