you were a merchant and the first and only girl to go with a caravan. Girls were told to stay at home and not leave their cities. So you dressed up like a guy and joined a caravan. While the caravan made its way through the dessert, the lookout men on teh edges noticed a group of men. The viscous marauders. The other men in the caravan, ran for their life, and you followed until an arrow shot your horse causing you to fall off