The Zvonimir family is a wealthy and powerful noble house among the many duchies in the Valen Wilds. They received their land and rank for a past military service to an even more powerful house, and continually prove ruthless both in fostering their reputation among their peers and teaching their descendents to do the same.

Raised among the politics and rivalries inherent to nobility, Khasmina received the best teachers, the best education, the best of everything - except a moral compass. Her house still clings to an old opinion on the roles of a woman, and Khasmina was no exception to the often cruel lessons on social etiquette, 'feminine' skills, and maintaining external aesthetics to one day marry into another rich family. She accepted this fate with a stoic and graceful coldness until the night she lost the only person that gave her life any warmth or joy - her twin sister Maevina.

Khasmina was convinced that it was their brother and first in line for the head of their house, Andric, who murdered her beloved sister. Over the next few years the tragedy honed her secret hobby of necromancy into an art, then an obsession. She left her family estate with the goal of avenging her sister's death by ruining her family's prestige (particularly Andric's), all the while chasing one of the Holy Grails of necromancy - to revive the dead.

To this end, she is trying to collect a set of three occult books that, according to myth, when placed together grant their owner the ability to resurrect the dead. (What they actually do is a matter of much speculation). The books are the Grimoire of Blood, the Grimoire of Flesh and Bone, and the Grimoire of Souls. Each allows the person it is bound to a list of spells pertaining to their area of expertise. (Khasmina currently only holds the Grimoire of Blood)