Everleigh Ebersol was born to Eberhard Ebersol, a traveling butcher who was a part of a noteworthy group of butchers that traveled throughout the year across Vel Anir. She would only see her father two months out of year, and most of her time was spent with her mother, Mio. Her childhood was joyous, she was well loved and well cared for. Too clever for her own good, but her mother nurtured her well into the happy, bright and precocious child she was.

Everleigh first began feeling her magic when she felt compelled to eat a poisonous snake she had found near the family’s chicken coop. Little did she know that she was unconsciously recreating those poisons effects around her. Her mother hadn’t realized, blaming feeling ill on being pregnant. When the proctors came around to do the annual magic test, before she had even turned five, Everleigh showed she had the aptitude for magic.

Further more, it was revealed that she had been poisoning those that had been coming into contact with her. She was taken to the Academy, her last memories of her parents being her father holding her mother back from chasing after her daughter.

While at the academy, Everleigh couldn’t quite say she enjoyed it, but she appreciated the challenges. She had never been the sort of child to sit down, always moving and running around. Here, she got the mental and physical stimulation she craved, but it came at a cost. Unloved, untouched, and cared for in the sense that only her basic needs were met, Everleigh was homesick. She worked hard to impress others and be as useful as she could for the proctors and Vel Anir but was never rewarded for it.

When she was eight, she had a accident. During one of her classes, four initiates closest to Everleigh died. Some say it was on purpose, but the rumor was that Everleigh had passed gas, silent but deadly. Marianne Goetsch began taking a interest in Everleigh at this time, and started playing games with her to gauge her IQ. These games were cruel and sadistic with Marianne constantly coming out on top due to her telepathy. The punishments were cruel and unusual.

As she got older she became bitter from her isolation. Initiates often steered clear of her but didn’t necessarily leave her alone. When Everleigh reached puberty, she began to become incredibly anxious, feeling eyes and hands constantly on her. Marianne’s punishments exacerbated this anxiety and paranoia. It only became worse when Everleigh would be missing from her classes for days or even weeks at a time, down in the dungeons beneath the Academy. Everleigh’s magic is a frightening one and had to be tested in a place that could be controlled. Really, Marianne didn’t want prying eyes on her “testing” of Everleigh.

Marianne exploited Everleigh’s disgusting drawback on her magic, in needing to consume things. The self-given title of “poison eater” is accurate as Everleigh is drawn to any creature or substance that is toxic to the body, whether it’s organic or inorganic doesn’t matter. An oily feeling within her stomach, if she doesn’t consume it then her mind will think of nothing else. She was shamed for consuming poison like a starving, wild purple beast for eating things cold.

Everleigh’s hair and eye color began changing as she consumed very poisonous or venomous creatures, namely: the taipan snake, blue ringed octopus, and golden poison frog. She was sixteen when it happened and it has made her self conscious ever since, especially living in a place like Vel Anir were the hatred of otherness runs rampant.

Around this time Everleigh began her underground gambling ring at the Academy. She was never caught although it was always known she was in charge of these games. Cruel like the proctor that trained her, Everleigh often encouraged cheating to happen, but for those who cheated, their punishment would be extreme. Often they wouldn’t be able to pay up and would be in debt. To pay off their debts, Everleigh was more than happy to take a small piece of them, like a tooth or fingernail or finger, to always remind them that she had won.

Everleigh should have graduated with the class before the revolution happened but was held back because of all the class time she had missed throughout the years for being sick or being underground. When the revolution happened, Everleigh wasn’t for it. She felt the choices given to them after graduation were well-disguised manipulation. Exile, reserves, or guard? Academy was going to try and be nicer? Initiates didn’t need to kill one another any longer?

She saw it for what it was: a disguise to trick and deceive. Yet, during that year at the Academy and with Marianne Goetsch suspiciously disappearing from the position of proctor, Everleigh began to make friends. Tinker Smithe had been a strange sort of friend during her time at the academy because he felt no fear of her touch. But they didn’t have true friendship. She found that within Liliana Lorel and Zael Castomir.

Other initiates such as Henk, Gaage, Alistair, Drastus and surprisingly, Chasmine and Kristen, began to have Everleigh open up as well— albeit, slow and unnoticeable to most, they did have an effect on her. Whether through conversations about fate or destiny, working together on missions, playing a game with her, or not being afraid to touch her, Everleigh found herself enjoying what the revolution had brought forth: unity.

Graduation changed all of that. Brought out to the Blackwood, Everleigh made a decision to side with Zael and rebel against the proctors. She was close to bringing herself and a injured Zael to Archon Gilram but was swayed by Liliana to instead go back to the Academy. She is reunited, much to her dismay, with Marianne Goetsch who offers her a job as a proctor at the Academy. Everleigh graduates as a third level dreadlord because of her feat in killing Proctor Malaneaux.

Everleigh’s first lesson as a proctor fails miserably, which ultimately pleases Marianne as now she can control Everleigh like she did before.