From a very early age Dana was raised with an understanding of the Uratha and the ways of The People. Indeed she probably knows more about Uratha society and lore than she does about human culture and history. As a child, she loved to listen to the stories of Father Wolf and the great hunts across Pangaea. Most children would be terrified to learn that the monsters lurking in dark places are real, but Dana always knew that such beasts were hunted by her powerful kin.

Dana’s childhood was spent travelling across Colorado under the guardianship of her much loved Aunt Amanda, an experienced Elodoth Bone Shadow. The girl had never met her father, whom she would later learn was a Rahu Iron Master, and her mother was killed, slain by a Ridden, when Dana was only four years old. Amanda found her sister’s weeping daughter as she still clung to the bloody corpse. Having just lost her own pack, the aunt vowed that she would guard her niece for as long as was needed. It was a brave decision to make at that time. The Rockies were suffering in the upheaval of Gurdilag’s assault and the ongoing Brethren War. Few packs were willing to take on the baggage of aunt and niece. As a result, they constantly moved from territory to territory, rarely staying with any one pack for more than a few months.

When her First Change came, Dana was about as well-prepared as it is possible to be. Amanda had known what signs to look for and had shared tales to give Dana warning of what to expect. Even so, the trauma of first exposure to Luna’s touch can never truly be anticipated. Dana found herself overwhelmed when the Gibbous Moon shone down while she was camped near a secluded forest locus. Newly awakened senses revelled in the touch of the Shadow Realm and the young Cahalith felt herself alive with the exhilarating flow of spiritual Essence. The experience left her half-mad from the intoxicating sensory overload - it took patient coaxing for Amanda to talk her delusional charge out from the spirit wilds and back to the physical side of the Gauntlet.

The time had come for Dana to find her own place in the world. The idigam invasion had been defeated and new packs were needed to reclaim lost territory. Amanda had finally accepted Park Sun Ae’s invitation to establish the Three Sisters pack of Bone Shadow seers. Dana was put in contact with Max Roman, the powerful alpha who had coordinated Gurdilag’s defeat. She received practical training to add to the accumulated lore gathered in her youth. After being initiated into the Bone Shadows tribe, she eagerly volunteered to join one of Roman’s experimental multi-tribal packs.

The young Cahalith is full of excitement and enthusiasm for her new life. She sees herself as living out the glorious tales on which she was raised and she can’t wait to add new stories of her own pack’s deeds - Dana has yet to experience the horrors which give the Uratha their title of Forsaken. With her considerable repertoire of rites, accumulated lore and glimpses of the future, she is an invaluable asset to her pack. She is keen to offer support to packmates whenever needed, content to let others take the alpha role while she aids them as she can.