Being born to Bartholomew Rivera and Ai Kisaragi, Temperance was lucky to grow up within the rich trading islands of Spain. These were the Canary Islands. These islands had grown popular for trade and brought vast amounts of wealth to Spain itself. This wealth led to the Canaries to take on several attacks. She was taken and sheltered during the attacks by pirates and privateers. In 1580 her pregnant mother and father had taken her (unborn) into hiding during the assault upon the Canaries only to find that Lanzarote, a governor, was captured and then later ransomed and then released. It was shortly after this attack that her family left the Canaries and moved closer to Europe. With her father's connections and her mother's skill in craft, there was not much a limitation as to where they co