She spent the next 5 years working as a musician and dancer in the tavern, which was a front for a whorehouse and somnus den. My'rie, in a desperate attempt to forget her mother's death, turned to somnus. The Calamity hit when she was 15, and she spent the next few years getting clean.

At 17 she joined the Thaumaturge guild and eventually left to become an adventurer at 19. Thus begins the story of A Realm Reborn.