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Anyway I'm not gonna fill the whole thread with Iliira backstory on a year-by-year basis. Long story short she was caught by Drakenmoor's Theives' Guild and brought before the Guildmaster. Genuine talent as a thief plus being a dark elf that seemed so completely unaware of what that was even supposed to mean was intriguing enough that he decided to let her unsanctioned thievery go, and she could even be inducted into the guild, if she managed to steal 100 silver pieces before the sun rose the following night.

Iliira's pretty sure that the thief who caught her - Derak - may have surreptitiously helped her. But she succeeded, and so was brought into the Thieves' Guild. She spent the next seven years (ages 20 to 27) as a low-level cutpurse and burglar, and also occasionally when the Guildmaster had to intimidate someone he had her stand in the corner in the shadows and try to look and act menacing. Which worked as long as Iliira didn't open her mouth and start talking.

And that's how Iliira became a 1st level thief.