Shannon was in fact originally (far back/historically) an elderly male monk in ancient china whom had his monastery destroyed
and pupils slain by a youth who sought revenge for the murder of a friend.
The youth was misguided, setting his wrath on the wrong target and consuming the souls of all those who he had fallen
in his rampage. When the Elderly monk discovered the temple in ruins, he sought out to stop the youth, but found himself
ambushed and murdered, having his own soul consumed and left drifting within the youth with all the others whom were slain
as his rampage on the world continued.
After several years, the growing amount of collected souls within the youth began driving him mad with their terrified cries as they
were little by little having their awareness mingle into a single hivemind, withering away at the youth's own soul itself in the
process whilst the elder Monk held out just long enough to become the loudest and clearest voice in the mind of the youth.
While his impact was never extraordinary, he at times managed to influence the youth's will to steady himself at times he would
most need it and make alternate choices that would result in his journey less often leading to disaster. Unfortunately, they still
ultimately lead to the youth being struck down and having his own soul and collection of souls within devoured by a demonic sword
that the youth attempted to grasp. Within the sword, there were even more souls locked away, but even more damning was the horror
of the weapon itself expending souls to nourish it's own sentience.
The sword was eventually found by a merchant, then a pirate, then a knight who became possessed by the blade before the knight
discarded the parasitic armor and the sword itself possessed the armor. All who had possessed the sword between these times had
slain countless people and creatures who had their souls added into the weapon, but around this time, the living armor saw fit
to
allow a follower much power by dispensing into her around ten thousand souls, including that of the Elder monk's and several
other souls whom had been strong enough to maintain their own individuality.
He had grown to know these other lost souls and was forced to watched as he outlived nearly all of them, one by one as they
had their essences absorbed to nourish her as she furthered the will of the cursed sword. Eventually, when the cursed sword
started weakening from it's inability to maintain the armor as it's harvested souls were running too low, the girl herself took
matters into her own hands and sucked the remainder of the souls out from the weapon and the armor for herself, attempting
to compress all the souls into herself until she found a new vessel.
Her attempts failed and she later opted to allow herself to become pregnant, hunting down a worthy specimen to molest and
consume the soul of in order to have certain hand-picked souls within her body to be injected into her growing child. She
forcibly inflated the elder Monk's memories with countless warriors she had already within herself and others she later fed on
until she gave birth to the perfect vessel, but she couldn't be bothered with raising the child herself at the time as other pressing
matters had emerged involving the withering of the dimensional walls.
When she came upon the Nexus, she paid off a reputable bounty hunter to raise the child until maturity, when the child would
be ripest for furthering her own plans, but she was unaware that the child retained the memories of the Elder monk as well as
the merged memories and knowledge of over hundreds upon hundreds of decades of experience, resulting in the child slipping
from the bounty hunter's custody the very moment the toddler's body was sturdy enough to manage walking without too much
hassle to the self.
Over time, the child grew and outlasted most children and teens in the wild, besting competitors and predators alike despite
what the outward appearances initially suggested. When rumors about the capable child circulated, "Shannon" moved to Destral
and made a name for herself as a bodyguard for several of the rich and powerful, but not quite so much those who would
get her seen in the public eye.
She eventually had her natural green hair and purple eye color surgically changed when she could legally manage to do so
before starting up her own dojo when she could afford it, Gaining a stellar reputation, but severing all ties with the very
City-country she had "historically been raised in" as far as Destral was concerned when they destroyed Metro Brinks over
what was at best mere speculation.
Ever since her move to Cape Crest, she has been seen as some sort of symbolic figure representing integrity and compassion
for the value of human life.
