Serenais is a daughter of refugees; her parents fled from the advancing Garlean empire. They fled through Ala Mhigo, where they were rejected; the locals feared refugees might be garlean spies and saboteurs. They went by Gridania, where they were rejected for being Duskwights. (...)

(...) Only at Ul'dah they were accepted. It wasn't good, though, either; the Monetarists treated the refugees little better than slaves, and often kidnapped and sold them as such. Serenais' mother gave birth to Sonat, a boy, at that time. That meant she wasn't able to work. (...)