Davni was born in the underworld city of Underhaven, to her father Deydron, gifted artificer, and Mother Theda, an expert healer.

Theda believed in defeating the mist, that there must be a way to return to the surface and live as her ancestors once did. However, it was a fight she was vastly underprepared for. She traveled to the surface in secret, determined to discover a weakness in the mist, her healing prowess wasn’t enough to save her and she was lost.

Deydron, devastated by the loss, retreated deeper into his work, creating a mechanical nanny named Patrova to care for Davni. She became both a protector and a cold, unfeeling substitute for the warmth of a mother’s touch.

With her father lost in his obsessive crafting, Davni grew up in the shadows of his inventions, often left to her own devices, her only companion a towering mechanical guardian. The works of her father fascinated her—clockwork devices, intricate constructs powered by gears and springs—but they also felt hollow, lifeless. She longed for something more, something tied to the earth and to her mother’s teachings. Though the mist kept the world above shrouded in darkness, Davni could still feel the tug of the wild magic that had once thrived under the open sky.

As she grew older, Davni began to experiment with fusing the mechanical ingenuity of her father with the remnants of life in her mother’s stories. She created biomechanical creatures—small, clockwork animals that seemed almost alive, powered by her magic. Her most treasured creation was a mechanical bird, a tiny clockwork pigeon, who embodied the gentle nature of the creatures she had only ever heard about.

Davni takes after her father in how meticulously she works, but like her mother in her sense of exploration.