While growing up as a human, she was a child of war. At the age of 5, she had already seen enough war and her life didn't get better after that. It was also implied that she was a noblewoman of high status, as she stated "I grew up in a castle like this" to Hector when referring to the castle of Styria. Her parents were murdered when "English soldiers climbed up the toilet chutes with knives in their teeth".

As a vampire, Lenore eventually rose to become one of the top members of the Council of