once a fellahin of akashingo, silvertongue (then called belen) was traded as payment for a debt. after a time of service to the pharaoh and shabti, she was sent as an emissary and gift to the islands of blackwater. but when that pack disbanded, she headed inland. ending up at mereo completely by accident, it was there she found crowfeather of whom she had been quite fond in the palace. they forged a bond, and have left their pasts to forge a new future in riverclan.

it was a time of companionable bliss. she took lovers in gunnar of kvarsheim, arric and akavir of swiftcurrent creek. when silvertongue came into her season, she sought crowfeather for the comfort of his body. she was determined not to be a mother. pregnancy came with attempts to end that path, but her children were born all the same. she at last accepted the truth of her prince's inability to return her love, and tried to settle. her children do not know her as mother, only as their aunt silver; they were raised in a maternal way by ash paw.

wren entered silvertongue's life in a time of flux. they became affable, passionate lovers. their bliss was ruined by the return of germanicus and his admission to wren and akavir about how he had been the one to sell silvertongue in akashingo.

it came to a head with a confrontation. akavir ended his relationship with silvertongue. wounded, loathing germanicus, she now retreats from all love and all comfort.