Atypically, her birthplace was not the jungles of Golmore but in La Noscea. A small farm built from the ground up by her Viera parents, escapees from a Garlean invasion long ago. A simpler Hyuran lifestyle chosen bore twin lives: Sereta and her brother Beau.
Sereta grew up learning how to both fight for and tend to their land until both decided to pursue the arcane. At first, her goals were purely scholastic, but soon her interests shifted beyond knowledge. Summoning magic slowly became her obsession over the course of a decade—until one fateful night when she and nearly her entire group nearly met their end. No lives were lost, but fingers of condemnation and blame, misplaced anger born of fear, etched themselves in her mind. She lost her faith in her companions, and a new fear of the unknown and of death was born.
Now she spends her days either traveling or in a library, soothing her soul with the accumulation of knowledge. In acute denial of her inability to move forward, both with missions and with people. The young Viera took solace that if one did not care overmuch, then one had little to lose.