As the only daughter of Lord and Lady Cadien, Rivelle felt the fullness of her parents love but also of their expectations that come with being the heir of a noble family. She was blessed with a comfortable life and tutors to oversee her studies and training in everything she wished and that befit her title. Her father was always indulgent of her desires and there was seldom anything she was denied. Thus, she knew she was allotted some greater freedoms than many other noble children.

Yet, despite their careful parenting, Lord and Lady Cadien were unable to show Rivelle the entire expanse of the world. Their lives were contained by the borders of their lands and the walls of the White City. Within its confines, they showed her as much as they could: the poor and the wealth, the clean and the dirty, the hard-working and the lazy. But from their sight, they would never send her into other faraway lands. In this one way, Rivelle's freedom was restricted by the protective nature of her parents.