Torlayna began her life as an adventurer in apprenticeship to the Eyes of the Tribunal, the northern school of theft and assasination. Gifted with both exceptional strength and beauty, she developed a deadly and powerful combat technique for dispatching targets. Torlayna disdained the traditional arts of the backstab and pickpocket, as she found it easier to simply run a person through and then loot the corpse.

Tory's career changed abruptly one night in a Halas tavern. A drunken warrior mistook her for a serving wench and tried to find his missing house keys in her cleavage. Having no patience with clumsy come-ons, she removed his hand from her breasts and threw him out the window, along with three of his friends who tried to interfere. In the heat of the moment, Tori forgot she was on an upper floor of the building, and the warriors fell three stories.

The next day, Torlayna was obliged to enter an anger management program. Fortunately, the northern barbarian society was relatively tolerant of violent rage, provided it was directed at enemies. Her rogue training was supplemented with techniques to focus her anger, and she became known and respected in the community as a bezerker. Tori recently gained fame in a dueling competition with a neighbouring guild, when she infiltrated their compound and assasinated their leader four times in succession.