When she was three, she was already picking up traces of magic. It was small at first but her parents noticed that if there was magic around then Perla was not too far behind. Her grandfather was a Dreadlord who had died long before her birth and both parents were ecstatic to hand her over to the Dreadlords.

Or at least that's the tale she was told by Proctors. They had been hoping for a powerful magic detector and always pushed her, in hopes she would develop some greater ability. Alas, she was naught but disappointment. Her skills ended up developing in enchanting items and working in alchemy.

This is when she became a useful tool. Dreadlords always had a problem of controlling young students, even if the Proctors were powerful. Enchanted items weren't a new thing and they had always had methods of finding anti-magic shackles to control their students. But now, they could have more be made. Instead of buying them from other countries and wasting a massive amounts of money, they could have it made.

Perla ended up getting tasked with making anti-magic shackles, pills to put unruly students to sleep, and was used for her magic detecting senses. She was a tool to find more children and useful to keep others down. Any tomes that needed to be made or fixed was pushed to Perla. Any enchantments required on armors or suits in preparation for a battle was given to Perla to work on. Any time there was an enchantment or potion needed, they called for her.

Slowly she became less of a battle mage and more of an indentured servant. The benefit? The few laboratories were all hers. Nobody bothered her. Nobody talked to her. It was difficult to make friends when you made the shackles that bind them. As she got older, she talked less and less to the others. She dove into her work as it was the only thing that really made her feel comfortable.

At a young age, she began working on a private tome that she kept hidden away from the Dreadlords. She would write down any spell she knew or saw in other tomes or scrolls. Over time she began adding additional sections to the book. Sections for potions, enchantments, spells, rituals, magical monsters, familiars, etc. She even copied down information on the other student's known abilities and started trying to figure out more about magic. The tome isn't finished and likely won't ever be finished but it is one of her personal projects that she's extremely proud of, even if nobody will ever see it.

When the revolution came around, she fully expected to die. She expected to get killed for the times she was used in finding kids or the times she made magical items for Dreadlords. Yet to her surprise, she survived. They even let her continue her work, though they didn't bother her as much for her magical detection abilities. She still makes enchanted items and potions for the Dreadlords and still is piled in months worth of work. But at least she is left alone.