Gretta was born just minutes after her twin sister Eiry. Unlike her sister, who decided to stay in Vel Anir, Gretta longed for adventure, and took to it once she came of age.

She was always scribbling away on anything she could write since she learned how to write. "Worlds are in my head, and I need to put them to paper before they disappear from the universe!" she would say. Her mother wanted to send her to Elbion in hopes of becoming a scholar. Gretta did not want to apply out of fear of rejection, for she had no magical propensity. With her mother's encouragement, she eventually applied, and was accepted.

It was not at all what she wanted.

Disenchanted with what was the College of Elbion, Gretta tried to remain enrolled, for it was quite the honor for a simpleton such as her to get in, yet it was so boring! She didn't want to spend her days writing about what already exists, and she was quite terrible at her attempts in magic.

And so, in secret, she wrote her first novel. A work of fiction known as "The Ascend" under the pseudonym Jhaunesse. With a bit of finesse with a friend, she managed to become published.

While a success, her work was criticized as being trite, or too fantastical. The novel involved dragon riders, magic as confined, and romance with abandon. There was possibly more of a cult following in Elbion for those with a little less of a practical palette, but she enjoyed it.

Most believe Jhaunesse to be a man, and as she enjoys hearing of people's true feelings on her writing, she'll rarely out herself.

Eventually she wrote a prequel, "Darkness Within," which paints a common magical practice as inherently evil, which caused a stir among readers. Dragon riders were also more common place, and dragons plentiful in the lands, sentient, and could communicate with people. Critics found the work absurd, but her cult following grew, and so did her published works.

This inflated her ego. She was making quite a bit of money, and she was taking her studies and her time at the college for granted. She felt instead of reading about all she needed to know in her books, she would instead drop out of college and venture forth into the world and learn from first-hand experience. Such a leap is one she is often at war with herself as to whether it was the right decision or not.