Her mother furrowed her eyebrows at the question and then leaned back in her chair. She pondered the question for a moment before saying, "there is much about our family we have lost to the passage of time. You and your sister’s absorption ability for example, we have no records of how our family contracted the Maladictus curse. Thus we didn’t even know about the power in the first place." She relaxed her posture and finished, "what I can say is that our family is quite old. Some rare accounts dating far before the queen’s time. A family of blonde women have been sighted on the isles far before our own records started with Averil. Why do you ask?"