From a young age, Qunith was enslaved amidst the masses in the southern lands of Umbar. She was young enough to know Gondor as a home, and a home she dreamed of returning to all her youth.

Through extraordinary circumstances, Qunith was able to fulfill her childhood dream, and returned to her family homeland but found herself restless to settle down, with the shadow of Mordor still encroaching from beyond the Ephel Dúath. Umbar, so she recognized, was a symptom — not the cause.

And so she joined the Gondorian army — given her dubious martial training, she joined not the common soldiery, but became a scout. Her knowledge of Umbar was useful to the Gondorian military, and so was often sent there.