I am Caitrin Donoghy. I was born to Ilene and Tom Donoghy in the town of Dublin... I do not ever recall being told what year it was, though I know it was sometime in the late 13th century.

I remember when I was about five my mother telling me the story of how my parents had met and that she had not been born Irish. She was or had been English nobility and my father had bumped into her one day and she fell in love. Her parents disowned her when she told them that she was in love with Tom and they were to be married. I also remember her telling me of an uncle that lived in France who had thought the marriage a very good idea.

As the years grew on I found myself very discontented with always being in one place. I wanted to travel, but my main wish was to be able to see this distant great uncle of mine. I wanted to find out why we had been tossed aside like all that much garbage and most of all I wanted to make friends for in my community we were snubbed by all, Irish and English alike.

When I was about 11 years old my mother died in childbirth, my mother had been my father's life and after her death he changed. We started to travel to places I never thought we would. My father started frequenting bars. He had never drank before in his life. When I was 14 my father made himself sick from the drink. He died a week after my mother's death anniversary.

I decided to try and find my uncle in France and started walking, but I walked for so long I made myself sick. I found a cabin in the forest that was empty and took advantage of it and lay down to sleep.

Upon waking I found everything had changed... I was in a place called Querna Tema. I found that no one here was happy, so a small group of people from Querna Tema and myself took off in the hopes of finding somewhere new... and thats how I came to Whispering Winds.