Born into a wealthy merchant family, Deanna is the daughter of Baron Anton and Lady Miriella DiCorvino, and the third youngest and only surviving child out of four children. Deanna was brought up a proper little lady. Sewing, horseback riding, and dancing were enjoyable pastimes for Deanna. By the time she was ten years of age, her older sister Sunniva, the wild child of the family, had left home to join their kingdom's Order of Knights as a squire to their great uncle. Her brother Kristian, showing no interest in the family business whatsoever, began hanging with an unsavory group of rebel freedom fighters (read thieves and mercenaries).
Despite the ruffles and lace, and rather impressive needlework, Deanna began sneaking off to their family's armory. Enchanted with daggers, for some unknown reason, Deanna began to play at target practice and quietly moved on to sword play once she mastered dagger throwing. She would practice while studying her lessons in her room, while baby sister Faustian stood guard.
On Deanna's fourteenth birthday, her parents announced that she would be wed to the son of one of her father's friends. While Deanna did not relish the idea of being the lady wife to some pimply faced mama's boy, she said not a word in dispute, for to shame her family would bring dishonor. In Deanna's opinion, a person was only as good as what his or her honor was worth. So she smiled prettily and played the part of excited young bride to be. Until the night before her intended special day. Deanna kissed her sister goodbye, and donning the stable boy's clothing, her leather satchel in hand, the young girl stole from the Manor in the dead of night. Her destination: find her sister Sunniva and become a Knight.
By the time Deanna was eighteen she became lead Knight Commander of a formidable group of men and women. During that time period, she became involved with another member of her Order, and after a short but wild courtship, married him. Life couldn't have been better for the young Commander. She had a wonderful husband, a Lord in his own right, a perfect career choice which she excelled at, and their was peace in the land under the command of her Order.
Bliss was short-lived. As quickly as her life became glorious, it turned to dust seemingly overnight. Orders were given for Deanna and her troop ride to a neighboring town and rid it of marauders who plagued the people there. Her husband and sister's own men were to follow a day later to help preserve peace and restore the town. Deanna and her knights rode out, only to barely survive the ambush attack that awaited them. Out of three dozen brave men and women, only four returned to tell of the tale. Reinforcements never came.
Disgusted, bloodied and weary, Deanna discovered that her team was sent on a suicide mission, that no direct orders came from her commanding officers. A setup performed by her sister and husband who had not planned on the young woman surviving. She did. They did not. Deanna had her sister hanged for treason and her husband she beheaded herself. Sadly. not three days later, while bedridden with what she thought was food poisoning, Deanna lost a child she had not known she was carrying. A last farewell to her faithless husband.
She spent a week recovering before being sent out on what would be her last mission. An order of the King, Deanna and her new team of knights were to decimate lands to the south so that the king might build a new castle by the sea. A simple task of laying waste to land, however she was led to believe that these lands were uninhabited. On a scouting trip, she learned of many villages scattered here and there, and upon reporting her findings back, informed her Chancellor she would not do as the King bid. She would not destroy people for the sake of some stone walled vacation home.
Deanna was then stripped of rank and considered for imprisonment,along with her men, but because of past valor, was simply sent away from their Order in disgrace and dishonor. The plan to level the villages was still on its way, much to the disgraced former knight's dismay. With a small band of her own men, Deanna attempted to reach the villagers in time to lead them to safety, but by the time her group arrived, there were fires everywhere, and not a single living them survived. Deanna surveyed the burning bodies of men, women, and mostly children with such desolation, she left her homelands for good. It was at this time Deanna learned that her beloved baby sister Faustian died of some mysterious blood borne illness.
She spent the next six years in Mystra-Amor rebuilding her life. Making a few friends here and there, the retired warrior chose not to take up arms, instead lived a quiet life. Until she met the young Redmont Lord, Maxim. Life was not so quiet then, not for Deanna nor The Kinslayer. Dramatic, and often near fateful events took their turn their lives, even as the bonds of friendship formed and strengthened. Enemy after enemy consistently plagued the young woman with intents to use her against the Redmont Lord. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how one looked at it, one particular adversary, Alastair Bluefield, managed to get a bit too close to Deanna.
Their first encounter, Alastair attempted to use and sway Deanna against the Redmont Lord, to which the young woman refused. Alastair savagely attacked Deanna, and nearly bit her arm off at the elbow. The were-hyena laughed as he left her, where the Redmont Lord would stumble upon her bleeding to death. He cared for her and restored her to health, but Deanna would carry more than a scar from her dance with the Bluefield Bastard. She now carried his strain of virus in her bloodstream.
Between learning to handle her new form and dealing with the Redmont Brood, her relationship with the Kinslayer became strained, even more so when he became bent on destroying their world. Forced to chose between loyalty to the one she trusted more than anyone and those who were determined to preserve life, Deanna aided his estranged wife Daphne and a few others in battle against the Redmont Lord, but in the end, Deanna chose to leave on her own accord, unable to cope with the outcome of bloodshed and violence.
She roamed the lands for the next couple of years, until quite by accident, found a portal that would eventually lead her to Aleris. Deanna found work and shelter though a kind man named Mal who owned the Boar Tavern on the outskirts of the City. For a time she worked there, content in her life. Having somewhat better control of her beast, Deanna would occasionally hunt in the surrounding woods, only one fatal slip up caused her to take the life of a local man, a warning that her beast ever lurked within, waiting for her human counterpart to slip in control.
Shaken by her actions, Deanna was determined even more to keep her beast a secret from anyone, which didn't last long for not a week later, she was attacked within the tavern by a vampire assailant. It would turn out to be none other than the Redmont Lord himself who had been tracking down Bluefields, mistaking her for one by the scent of her blood. After an all out battle complete with bloodshed, curses and tears, Deanna said what she thought would be a final goodbye to the vampire she trusted and once loved.
Needing a break, Deanna partook in an adventure in the City where she met up with two new friends, a young pirate maiden named Pip, and a demonic hybrid who turned out to be the bastard brother of Maxim Redmont, Quinn, who would become her future mate and love. At this time, Maxim had disappeared from sight, and Deanna, heartbroken that he would just leave without her, finally accepted that the Redmont Lord and she simply led different lives. In her heart, they would always remain close and friends.
Fate was not done throwing obstacles in Deanna's path to happiness when her friend and father figure Mal was brutally slaughtered by a group of weres plaguing the continents and terrorizing the people. Accompanied by Quinn, Deanna would eventually meet up with Verial Akilara and his son Kyrian on the continent of Elved where they would arrange to battle with the weres. It was on this journey that Deanna formed a bond with Quin, and the two became a mated pair. Unable to settle into 'domestic bliss' at the moment, they continued on their journey to the were's lair where the fighting began.Victory was had and the weres were destroyed or sent into hiding.
Soon after came the war of the gods that resulted in a drastic climate change in Aleris. Much of the populace and lands were in ruin as a result. Those who did survive only lived to fight against the Val'nothe and Terra Vale who was responsible for the imprisonment of Tempesturo as well. Deanna fought along side of several for the fate of Aleris, but in the end she was killed by Terra Vale. Eventually the Val'nothe were imprisoned once more, the gods restored to their seats of power, and the land and people began to heal despite the death of King Alerion.
After traveling to the realm of Chaos, Deanna was finally granted the serenity and peace she longed for by the Goddess Elysia. Content with the idea of her spirit residing in the Underworld, Elysia stripped Deanna of her werebeast, and Deanna was finally able to rest in her 'Cabin', a place where Deanna could create a blank slate for herself, a place she could forget everyone and everything that occurred in her life.
The Goddess of Chaos and Death, Sharay, that Deanna had previously served long ago as her High Priestess, decided now was the time to strike. Longing for the worship she felt owed to her, Sharay found Aleris to her liking, but as she was trapped in a plane between the living and the forgotten, required a body to house the divine entity that she was. She managed to tap into Deanna's spirit, and because of that, Deanna was resurrected many months after her death, a puppet of the Goddess she once served and revered.
Because Sharay was corrupted by Deanna's human emotions, she was unable to control her desire for the Chaos and Death she reveled in, and corrupted by jealous, spite and wrath, Sharay along with Elijah Bluefield, the Aliscowri and Dead Seed, and several lycan warriors, committed mass genocide across the continents in a bid to become a single deity to the people of Aleris. Several banded together to formulate a plan to overthrow the Goddess in Deanna's form, but it was Elysia who finally banished the Goddess, leaving Deanna to bear the wrath of those who fell victim to Sharay.
Surprisingly, Deanna found an ally in Verial Akilara, who lost his son and his angelic heritage as a result of the possessed Deanna. Although Deanna was to be executed for crimes committed against humanity, vehemently championed by Lady Layla Victoire, she was smuggled to the continent of Arthuran by Verial who was also made Lord of Chaliceton, and Lady Sahar, former ally of Layla Victoire. Though the newly crowned King Elias Lowell ordered his Lord Commander Madrin Kir to perform an all out search for the wanted woman, it is likely that neither are looking particularly hard for her.
Deanna is presently residing in Chaliceton with Verial and Sahar. Mentally and emotionally wrecked by the memories of Sharay's doings, she struggles daily managing her guilt and remorse, as well as her highly complicated and volatile relationship with Verial. Though she no longer holds any deep emotional attachments to anyone, Deanna is aware of the growing bond between she and Verial, much to her disgust and resentment.
