Dalyla was hunting wraith at the edge of her father's kingdom when the Scourge attacked the city. She returned to find her sister, Darya, valiantly fighting but her father fell in battle. Ultimately she and her sister won the battle but so many of their people died. They sent survivors to their ally kingdoms in the north and joined the Circle of Thorns to weed out the evil. The Circle of Thorns, are all orphaned princesses from great houses that fell for standing against the Scourge, an extremist group of zealots seeking to purify the world of art, music and magic. Dalyla is a shapeshifter like all her people; she is can turn into a panther but will also fight with twin katanas if need be. Dalyla was created using AI.