The daughter of a Tsoo mystic, Mara was raised for the first part of her life in what the tsoo would concider a pampered life. Things were always good for someone so highly respected within the Tsoo community. Her fathers status within the Tsoo power structure allowed her to learn from the best teachers. By the age of twelve she had mastered two languages without a hint of accent in either, and showed promise in the katana. Her skills in tactics was extraordinary and she had the ability to call forth darkness at will which made her stand out from other students. This brought her the attention of the assassins circle. Someone who could cloak themselves in darkness would be invaluable to the trade.

On the night of her fifteenth birthday they came for her. She was taken and trained in the art of the assassin. By the age of seventeen she had earned top ranking and her ebon bracers, besting all in her circle. This moved her forward into her final trial. This would be the one thing that would make or break the assassin. Her first job.

David Rogers was a supplier of tainted superdine sold to young upstarts in the neighborhoods through a network of Family agents. He was a chemist major in college but got booted for creating some rather noxious potions and blowing up a major part of the school. Beaten and broke even disowned by his family as a failure he was offered a job in the Family. He took it without hesitation and worked for them from then on producing high grade superdine and bringin in the big bucks for the Family and also himself as a result. As a cover he was placed as a chem lab teacher at a local high school and was encouraged to have a family. Unfortunately David had a weakness for women and betting so he started a little project to increase his own income by cutting superdine with another drug that increased its potency, killing many. Well as all bad stories go the Family found out and contracted the circle to take him and his family out.

On the day of trial Mara was summoned before her master and the twelve other members of her circle. She was told to kill David Rogers and anyone else in the house. No one was to live as they were to be an example of what happens to those who cheat the Family. It was perfect! She had no problem killing a known drug dealer that was a thorn in the Tsoos side as well as the Families and she would earn her place as leader of the her own circle of assassins.

Looking back on that day she still can't wipe from her mind the look of utter terror on the faces of the three children in the closet of the oldest childs room. The oldest trying to be brave in the face of death unhinged her mind. She dropped her sword and fell to her knees before the children, wishing for the first time in her life that she could undo what couldn't be undone. Her head bowed forward and a few tears fell for the first time in what seemed to be years. Resolving herself to what she must do she raised her eyes to the oldest and told her to take her sister and flee and that she would take the youngest. Reluctantly the child obeyed after Maras promissing no harm would come to the child. They fled straight to the police and Mara fled with the youngest child to Sisters of Mercy and gave them the child. That night she met herself and didn't like what she saw.

Mara returned to the circle telling them of the death of David and his family. This was met with many questions and in the end they knew she failed to finish the job. It was a long day by the time the beatings stopped. It stopped hurting hours before and the blissfulness of unconciousness took care of the rest. She knew this was the end. Hours later she heard through the ringing in her ears her masters voice saying " She was a waste and has no honor !!" contempt dripping like acid, "Drop her in the Red River and let the trolls finish what you have started. Let this be a lesson ! Get her out of my sight !" With that she was just another bag of garbage being thrown into the Red River. As luck would have it, trolls or a troll did find her. He told her his name was Julius and at that point she lost conciousness.

Some days later she awoke in a hospitol stitched bandaged and in a cast. A nurse told her she was brought in by a Lt. Wincott, again she loses conciousness. What seemed a lifetime later she awakens to see a courious looking fellow shes never seen before. He was wearing a black business suit and held a katana sheathed in his lap. Noticing she was awake he rose from his seat and approached the bed and introduced himself, "My name is Onimarikaru from the Coven of the Four Winds and I am to be your new master."

A year later sees her up and runnin with a desire to see justice. She feels good though because the people she had slain were evil selfish people and by her new standards had to pay accounts. No innocent blood had touched her hands and she knew at that moment her abilities could be used for the betterment of society and she would start by collecting on one account. The Tsoo assassins circles time to pay accounts was up. Over the next month she tracked down and slew all members of the circle saving her old master for last. In the end he took his own life and now serves her ancesters in the afterlife until she dies at which time he will serve her for eternity. His head served as a warning to the other circles on a pike outside a known tsoo hide out in Steel Canyon. The Tsoo once her family was now an enemy to what she now believes in. From this point on I swear by my blade to take no life that is innocent and protect the weak from the evil strong. This was her new code learned from Onimarikaru and hopefully one to be passed on.