Rimas Nolie is a skunk and mage who was born in 510 GD. Her parents are Samuel Nolie, the wolverine, and Francine Nolie, the skunk. She has one sibling, an older sister, Theresa Nolie, the skunk. Her family adopted Marcel Tano in 525 GD, and she treats him as a younger brother despite them being the same age.

Rimas showed remarkable proficiency at the piano from a young age, which encouraged her mother to push Rimas towards taking formal lessons on the piano beginning from the age of 3. Her skill at playing the piano developed rapidly. She performed at her first piano recital at the age of 5, and composed her first original piece, “Tulip Rag”, at the age of 6. This would, for much of Rimas's life, be her best-known composition.

Rimas's father (a known Kaltish revolutionary who opposed and sought to overturn the annexation) was assassinated via cadmium poisoning.

During the final months of his life, Samuel taught Rimas elementary flame magic (which was at the time highly illegal).

Rimas did not take the death of her father very well, and quit the piano the following month. She turned to playing pretend “witches” with Marcel, only stopping when Bruce Tano forbade her from entering his house again.

Rimas took up the skateboard soon after this, practicing multiple days during the week, and every weekend. She continued studying magic in her spare time, secluding herself in the archives beneath Atticleaves and studying the ancient tomes there.

When her mother decided to sell the bookstore, Rimas secretly kept the key to the archives, and attempted to smuggle out as many books as possible. She ended up removing over 200 books from the archives over the following weeks. She was eventually found out by her sister Theresa, who told their mother about what Rimas had been doing, but Francine (reminded of her late husband's passion for preserving old books, and knowing the new owners wouldn't understand their value) decided to help Rimas move more books out instead, but only if she promised to practice the piano again.

Rimas structured her weeks throughout her childhood like this. Weekends were for practicing skateboarding. Rodays and Ludays were for practicing piano. Tuldays and Durimdays were for studying and homework (which is, like all Adenian schools, due on Yendays). Verdays and Yendays were for whatever she pleased (which was almost always magic, but she would sometimes practice skateboarding or play piano instead).