<br/><div class="floatright">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/FujinAkari/e7cb5ded61a03196325d2fa64e2cfef9_zps76b34ee3.jpg)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">NSFW</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v484/FujinAkari/Private/Erin.jpg)</div></div></div>Colo comes from the world of Lithera, although she has no idea it has a name.  Lithera has little to no mages and and even priestly magic is a rarity.  The offshoot of this is that martial might is very much the currency of Lithera, and that those who are not able to either hire or wield blades effectively, are not typically respected across the lands.  The vast majority of Litheran women live by attaching themselves to men and very very few seek to break into the martial ranks themselves, but those that do are deeply admired and applauded in victory.  However, while a woman who can hold her own in a man's world is seen as a startling rarity, one who cannot is seen as little more than an upstart, and those women who try and quite often publicly and savagely reminded of their place.<br/><br/>Thus, Colo's martial upbringing was full of scorn, pain, and occasional shame... but it also taught her the somewhat contradictory lessons in being able to defend herself and the importance of having people you could rely on at her back.  Over the years, she developed a small group of sparring partners she could trust and didn't relish in her defeats, but that all unfortunately changed the day the world slipped out from under her... sending her plummeting alone into the world of... Worldfall... left to find new allies in a world where losing carried actual consequence and victorious opponents weren't required to release you the next day...