Ariane Telrion
Ariane was raised in a family of 6 brothers and one sister. She was the fourth youngest. When she was ten years old, just old enough to start thinking on her own and making her own choices, her mother left the rest of her family with her sister, who was the youngest. Ariane was left with six brothers and her father. Life was hard for her, she often helped her father in his trade, doing his calculations, writing his letters for she had the intelligence and the skills as well as the best handwriting (the men in the family didn't seem to be all that neat with their hands).
She didn't grow up like any other girls in the city of Aringill. She never was taught to be ladylike or any manners, she had to learn them on her own. Her father taught her all he knew, and that was basically how to stand up for herself. To fight with a sword, throwing knives, archery and any other skill in fighting or with people. She worked as a tavern maid for a short while, which gathered her people skills and she met many different kinds of people. She soon developed the dream of learning in the White Tower. Whether or not she had the ability to channel, she still wanted to be a Warder. It wasn't a common thing to see a female warder, but that only encouraged her more.
She had the skills of any man, set in the body of a woman. Although she never learned ways of the heart nor did she even understand other women. She didn't grow up with anyone like her, stuck with males and their ways, she was on her own to figure out all that she was. All this piled into her goal of coming to the White Tower. She set out when she was twenty years old and arrived at the white tower to learn and become a warder and maybe more.