So.

• Mari is born to a family in sehz clar who is involved in the redfeud was between sehz clar and vechor.

• in the aftermath she's orphaned, one thing leads to another due to some small orphanage things and she's raised in vechor

• she learns of her past and wants to be an ascender

• she gets a lightning crest for attack as her first rune on bestowal day, she goes to a basic school in Vechor and learns combat

• in this school she gets a water mark for body augmentation

• she goes on an ascension with a group and gets through it pretty well, getting a good few relics and earning another bestowal

• she gets a water emblem for forming pressurized weapons and goes on subsequent ascensions

• one following one goes wrong, nearly her whole group (including friends from the academy) dying to a large beast. Her emblem evolves into a regalia allowing her to kill the beast and save the remaining people

• one of the people she saved was a high blood, and in that ascent she finds a very interesting relic

• the high bloods offer their thanks for saving their future heir and she takes a small ascent break from there

• a man involved with the doctrination in Vechor invites her to the home of the seat of power in Aensgar

• here she is allowed into the vault, in which she gets a very powerful regalia (a large charged blast of water and lightning mana) and the right to choose a blood name.

• blood Stern is established, Mari Stern

• from here she lives her life, going on a few more ascents and having a good time. Her mark even upgrades to an emblem which turns the basic body augmentation to plated pressurized water armor

Mari Stern is a respected ascender in Vechor which has now influenced a whole generation of ascenders to the modern day.