User blog comment:Snowstripe the Fierce/The Spearmaid/@comment-26879391-20150814191846/@comment-26538658-20150814222405

Yeah, I kinda wanted Clea's past to be left to the imagination, but I do sorta have a backstory for her:

Okay, so she was raised in Mossflower with her mom and dad and sisters, being the second oldest one. At the age of fifteen seasons, she was sent to live with her grandfather, who had recently become a widower. She was to cook and clean for him and take care of his house until he died. So she did that for three seasons, then he dies. So, now being eighteen seasons, she decides to leave Mossflower and get to see things before she gets old.

She then happens on the mountain of Salamandastron, where the current badger lord, Lord Ash, is very old and his son Ceteruler will soon take the throne. The two soon fall in love and marry that same season and it's two seasons before Ash dies and then Ceteruler and Clea become the mountain's rulers. At season four of their reign, Gorse is born, and now we lead up to this.