The woman who would one day become Olethros was once just a teenage girl who, with her mother, father, sister, and fiance, set out from Halas to join a barbarian settlement near the city of Freeport.  No more than an hour out of the city, though, and their caravan was attacked by orcs, both the men dying in combat while the women were rooted to the ground with magic, unable to do anything but watch.  When the battle was over, a dark elf wizard teleported the three to Camp Crushbone, where the mother and sister, fighting tooth and claw, were seperated from the girl and never seen again.  An orc oracle took a liking to the girl and took her as his slave, forcing her to cook and labor for him as well as succumb to other, much more horrible roles.  If she refused, he punished her brutally, though he often did so without provocation as well.  The girl in the end did as she was told, though only because she knew she didn't have the raw power to kill; she had learned from watching him cast his spells though, and took it to herself to learn to use his own weapons against him.  When he slept or left the camp or even just left the room to deal with the many attacks that befell Camp Crushbone, the girl would study his books and shamanic writings, determined to one day slay him and escape.  And so it continued for ten years...

One fateful day, though, the oracle decided he had enough of her : she had grown tall, and perhaps her towering stature worried him, so he set her to much more menial tasks away from his presence, tossing her into the slave pits beneath the castle and forcing her to live out the rest of her what-was-to-be a short life mining rocks at the crack of a taskmaster's whip.  For a year she mined and labored and continued to endure torture, until in one raid by the forces of goodness a young paladin named Eileen Lochinvar broke into the slave pits, freeing those she could, including the girl.  Barely able to escape the camp, the girl and other slaves had their wounds tended to in the nearby dwarven city of Kaladim.  Her old life gone forever, the girl made a vow and renamed herself Olethros et Teleute : Death and Destruction.  She made an oath that one day she would wipe every orc off the face of Norrath, pledging to start with Camp Crushbone and her once-masters, using the very tools that they provided her : strength from the years of toil as a slave, and shamanic magic stolen from the very books of the orc oracle.

Olethros often comes across as a strong, overwhelming presence when not in a combat capacity, laughing loudly and enjoying the presence of her friends and constant companions, Eileen and Zozo.  Even when in combat Olethros is hearty and an enjoyable accompaniment, but when she is pitted against orcs or their allies, her true hatred and pain come to light...  Olethros becomes a machine of rage, releasing all the pent up pain she has experienced in a ferocious force.  Though she is a shaman and worships the Tribunal, the gods of Justice, she treads a fine line, often fighting more for the sake of hatred and revenge than for justice.