A rare Keerin female born with purple hair, Raina has always lived on her own, for her people believe purple hair to be a sign of evil. She lost her arm in a fight with a mountain lion, so she made a new one out of bloodwood–a very rare wood able to pick up and transmit the signals from nerve endings, allowing her to use it like a real arm. She wants to live normally, but her people believe she will eventually turn evil and have shunned her.