When Patience was 3, her mother, Lenora, a middle aged witch and farmers wife, turned her father into a tree and married King Crassus. Patience raised herself. At the age of 7 she ventured out of her comfort-zone, her cottage in the dark forest, and restored her family within 2 days. She started out an ordinary red haired young girl, and ended up a green skinned black haired young witch.