"T'is foolishness! If all were so easy, why, none would suffer in this world!"

Early Life

Separated from her family at a tender six summers while fleeing from Garlean forces, Rosaline washed up on the shores of Limsa where she would be found by a passing hyur merchant couple. The two took pity on her, and gladly welcomed them into their lives and raised her as their own in Gridania.She remembers very little from her previous life, only that she had family once. What she does remember is being "saved by a mermaid", a tale which most passed off as the delusions of childhood trauma. It wouldn't be till much later in life that the mermaid she swore as her savior would be that of Llymlaen herself.Rosaline grew up happily despite her rough start in life, finding a deep love for nature within the forests of the Black Shroud. Instilled with a firm sense of right and justice, she dreamt of becoming an adventurer herself - to help those in need and to ensure that others be spared the pain she herself experienced as a child. As soon as she was old enough to, she marched herself right over to the Archer's Guild and began training then and there.

"Heroic? Human? Those are just things people say after the fact... It's not what the people say afterward... What's important is being true to oneself"

Current Day

Never did Rosaline imagine going from humble adventurer to wearing a title as heavy as "Eorzea's savior", but neither is she about to turn her back on the people of this star - or other stars, for that matter.The Scions have been a second family to Rose, and filled in a space in her life she didn't realize was missing until they happened into her life.Upon her travels to the First, Rosaline found a second home in Il Mheg. Although the abrupt nature of the friendship took her by surprise initially, her bond with Feo Ul is now one of her strongest. Hard-pressed would one be to find a more steadfast and reliable companion.

• Life as Azem

"I just wanna protect the people I'm with. Doesn't matter whether I can or not. It's what I believe in"

Relationships

Rosaline and Elidibus (A Realm Reborn through Shadowbringers)Rosaline initially feels inexplicably drawn to Elidibus, at first thinking it stemming from a desire to defeat the Ascians and stop their plans. But she got more than she bargained for, when enemies quickly turned to enemies-with-benefits before she knew it, forcing her to hide their illicit relationship from those around her. Theirs would be a tremulous relationship for years, fraught with strife and conflict given their opposing goals and Elidibus's penchant for disappearing for extended periods of time, until that fateful day at the Crystal Tower when the two faced their biggest, and final, clash.It wouldn't be until much later, once her history as Azem came to light, that she would understand the pull that she felt towards someone that she so clearly should have stayed away from. Despite everything, the loss still aches in her heart. Especially in the wake of the events of Pandaemonium.

Rosaline and Martyn (Stormblood unto current day)After being roped into Martyn's shenanigans one faithful day in Limsa, Rosaline takes to training in the ways of blue magic under his tutelage in order to ensure he doesn't end up in the gaols at the hands of the Yellowjackets. Slowly but surely disdain grows to fondness as she develops feelings for the mage. And after watching Martyn nearly kill himself in his match against Siegfried, the feelings she tried to deny become irrefutable. Little does she know that those feelings are not one-sided, as Martyn too had been harboring feelings for her. Unfortunately for the two of them, they both for their own unique reasons were fully convinced that the other could not or would not return those feelings.The would two pine for each other for some time as they continued their relationship as teacher and apprentice. It wouldn't be until their victory against Gogo in Kugane that, in the high of their triumph, do they finally confess their feelings to one another.All the while Martyn remained blissfully unaware of Rosaline's true nature as the Warrior of Light until she saves the entire star from utter calamity. Though the revelation catches him by surprise, their relationship strengthens and the two become inseparable.

• Outside of Eorzea