Zulfi'Fon was born on the Echo Isles near the end of the third war. Her parents were amongst Zalazane 's mind-control victims. When the free Darkspear evacuated, the witchdoctors that fled south left the small child in the apprenticeship of a witchdoctor who stayed behind in Sen'jin villiage. Her new guardian was not happy at the thought of teaching a female in the ways of Voodoo and only taught her in a half-hearted fashion and was very abusive, leaving her body scarred up. At one point, Zulfi tried to escape but didn't make it far before she was caught and brought back before her master, who took her eye for it. Zulfi had to devise a new way to get out. She started eavesdropping on her master, and learned some of the ways of the plants and of poisons. One evening when she was bringing he