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Born in Thanalan poverty and bought for gold coin as souvenir for kids by one of house Dzemael counts, Mei grew up surrounded by Ishgardian higher society.
Despite initially being raised to become the older brothers maid, they end
up getting close enough to treat her as their own, with Jandelaine being especially fond with of his now younger sister.
Unfortunately, being a miqo on elezen lands Mei had to play pretend and blend in among them with hoods, dresses and makeup hiding her cat features, which led to a good bunch of insecurities about herseld as years went.
That aside, she was fortunate enough to lead a somewhat comfortable life and getting education on basic skills like writing and reading, discovering book restoration as a hobby along the way.
That is, until the Seventh Calamity struck killing one of her only friends and injuring Mei herself in the process.
Now with Ishgardian landscape turned to everlasting winter, and blame on herself for the friends death she decides to pick up knights blade to protect
those dear to her. Or at least that was her plan, as it took countless days and nights of trying to persuade one of the family guards to teach her the ways.
Clumsy at first but very determined she manages to master what he could teach in but 5 years of secret training only the family knew about. Eventually the knight guard decides he can teach her no more and so, after helping her convince everyone else, he sends her over to Ul'dah to hone her skills further... On her way the caravan goes by multiple lush fields and forests, the wild flowers reminding her how much she used to love them, especially the extremely rare but beautiful Driancoin roses, which at that exact moment she decides to make someday bloom again in Ishgard.
