Mirik

So Mirik left her tribe due to her master dying and a new leader taking control who was more aggressive. As part of her teaching she felt a calling from the Earth so went into the caves to commune (giving her the Hermit background & the desire to try to find what that means.
she believes she is an Earth Mage as that iss roughly what her tribe called Druids.
She knows a little about humans and that their mages write stuff down and get power from writings. So she began to write down what she felt during her time in the caves. Eventually she wasn't feeling any new things and she had run out of Ink. She left the caves to get some more ink but also to try and find out more about the writings and their power that humans have hoping that will help her. That is when she fell in with the group (she had just bought some new green ink).