"Left to the sands" by her mother shortly after the death of her father, Calilla was spared a short life of starvation and dehydration by a passing tribe who quickly sold her to the highest bidder.

Whether through a belief in her potential or an odd fetish, Calilla's new owner swiftly put the young girl into training, fashioning the Variag child into an obedient and efficient servant. As both child and adult, she acted as a covert bodyguard as well as assassin for her master; protecting him as necessary or killing upon his order.

By her twentieth year Calilla, all too aware of the short lifespan of those such as herself, decided to change her fate. Using her position as "Favoured Slave," - one with all the duties of a wife but none of the status - she took the opportunity to slit the throat of her aging master with his own prized Haradian dagger and escaped into the night before her deed could be discovered.

Following whispers of one Rellas Yishai, a name she vaguely recalled as belonging to her elder brother, she traveled west until she finally found him in Bree. Now she lingers in a strange land, surrounded by a culture that she has trouble understanding and peoples who might very well become hostile due to the lands of her birth.

Since coming to Bree, she has developed a degree of achondroplasiaphobia.