Taken captive as a slave during one of Surlvhal's attacks on the tribes of Resila, Dinah grew up in the servitude of a chieftain. The son of her master took an eye for her, and she for him and he eventually took her as his own upon establishing his own name. Eventually giving him two sons, what joy Dinah found in her circumstance did not last.

Some years had gone by and Surlvhal and Resila went to war again. It was not uncommon for a high-born to take a slave as concubine, but it was the favour showed Dinah that earned the young noble unwarranted suspicion of abandoning his people or betraying them. In cowardice, he gave in to pressure and sent Dinah away right before Ira was born, keeping their eldest, Matteniah with him. A servant sent to tend Dinah per chance overheard the young lord hiring mercenaries to kill Dinah and bring back the newborn. With this warning, Dinah fled back to her homeland, coming close to the battlefields many a time.

By a miracle she and baby Ira found the tribe of Adjura and her family, reuniting amidst the conflict. When Resila was overcome, it came time to flee again when the mercenaries, disguised as soldiers, were just at her doorstep. With Ira still young, they braved the desert of Obolos, traveling with at times with deserters, gypsy caravans and merchants fleeing the conflict until they arrive in regions of Isalme.
A foreigner once again in a new land, Dinah was again fortunate enough to be taken in by a widowed farmer taking pity on the woman and child.

There they stayed until Ira was nine years old, growing up alongside farmer Mulkivitch's children and adopted daughter, Mila, who had been left at his gates. When an outbreak many feared to be a second plague broke across the southwestern reaches of Catheel, where Dusk was fortunate to escape its grasp, Dinah was not so fortunate. Holding on longer than the local physician expected, it would not
be long before she eventually succumb. The mercenaries that had been tracking them for years under her former master's contract, finally located them and set fire to the farm. A group of trainees under Transient Maj. Rema Merloci were close by and headed towards the cloud of smoke.

Dinah was bedridden in the barn-house, having been moved their with Ira to prevent the disease from spreading. With only the two children left and the mercenaries setting flame to the last refuge, Ira would not leave her side. Desperate to save him, she gave him the choice to leave her to the flames or take what was left of her life. Only Mila and Ira know what took place in those final moments and neither ever speak of it...