"My story? Well..." The woman looked rather embarrassed, but sighed after a short while. "I'm a wizard, really. Trained in it since I was young, since I have a talent for magic. The bastards burned my spellbook, though. Right in front of me, while I watched. I'm a...tinkerer, really, focusing on transmutation and enchanting, though I haven't gotten far in the art yet. I sometimes sold my works to shops back in the city to make a little money, but that's really it, before I took up adventuring. I made...four successful trips before<em>this</em>happened."