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Born to a life of moderate poverty in a large family with Grayhope connections, Thena showed early aptitude for sneaking about and relieving people of their possessions and was fostered out to some other Grayhope cousins who 'encouraged' this aptitude and a few others (stabbing) that might help her help them with the family business. Petty theft as a child and pre-teen led to more lucrative and dangerous operations, and it was during one such that she was betrayed by her partner and left to die in the gutters of the Lower Burroughs, where an elderly disciple of Lagoma named Petrae found her. The woman, a talented healer, patched her back together and eventually convinced her that she was meant for more than a short drop and sudden stop, so eventually Thena left 'home' to stay with Petrae in a cottage in the Gray Forest, a few miles outside of Arx. Petrae taught her healing arts and some rudiments of the Faith, especially worship of Lagoma, and, having never known real safety or parental care before, Thena finally started to thrive. When Brand and his army began to make their way toward Arx, Thena left her oasis to seek help from someone in the city. She became trapped there by the Siege, and, unsure of the reception she might receive from the Grayhopes in the city, signed up with the Iron Guard as a means to keep herself sheltered and fed. When the Siege lifted, she made her way back to the cottage in the company of a couple of heavily armed friends, only to find that Petrae had been tortured and murdered. Devastated and bereft, Thena sought consolation in the Faith and eventually took vows to become Godsworn. She currently serves in the Knights of Solace and finds some comfort in carrying out her duties, specifically those duties that involve slaughtering anyone and anything remotely linked to her mentor's death.

Thena is of middling height and possesses a rangy build made up of mostly lean muscle, graced with very little in the way of curves. She has a heart-shaped face that can, on occasion, bestow on her an air of sweetness, though far more often her expression defaults to vacant and slightly sullen. Her hair falls in dark shining waves when unbound and there are buried glints of red in direct sunlight; her eyes are nearly black and her complexion is dusky. Thena is generally a woman of few words and moves with the precise nimbleness of an alley cat, tending towards silence even when she's not deliberately trying to be stealthy. She often has an air of alert wariness about her.

Thena is inquisitive and sharp, often far too sharp, with a snarky devil-may-care facade that hides the ravages of personal loss and a less than stellar upbringing. She can be well-mannered if she chooses to, but usually whether she chooses to is often entirely based on the direct benefit to herself. She can be incredibly determined when she's on the hunt for something, which is usually information, and quite mercenary about dumping one source in favor of another one that has a better yield. Thena is deeply religious and believes that she was genuinely called to the Faith, though she also deliberately uses her Godsworn status to keep a barrier between herself and anyone who might want to venture too close. Still, she has strong convictions, feels that it is her gods-given duty to fight the oncoming darkness until she can't, and, acutely aware of her own shortcomings, strives constantly to better herself and to pay off some nonspecific debt she feels she owes to the world. Hunted and haunted, it might be too much to say she has a heart of gold, but she has a bright-burning spirit underneath all the attitude that she reveals but rarely.