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 inherited her father's old skateboard, and used the same board all throughout her childhood. 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 in 520 GD, 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). Rimas essentially gave up on having a social life or any friends during this period of her life.

In 525 GD, Rimas entered and won first place in the Tolikra Citywide Skatefest competition in the vert category for children aged 13-18. She was the only girl in the top ten, and the other competitors accused her of cheating. She stole the wireless microphone from a reporter who had attempted to interview her and skateboarded away, reaching the platform of a halfpipe and delivering a speech from there.

This is a message to all the girls in this city! I am tiny, gay, and I'm a better skater than all these boys! Don't let the men in your life tell you what you can and can't do! Don't let them enforce their patriarchal fetishes upon you! You can do absolutely anything you set your mind to, and you can do it better than any man! Women are amazing and that's why I wanna marry one! If you're a bad bitch and you live in Tolikra, and you wanna date the greatest skateboarder this city has ever seen, call me, because I am single! —Rimas Nolie, age 15

Her tensions with the other skaters came to a head on an Etsday evening when she was walking home from the skatepark. She was approached by a group of teenage boys who she recognized as the other competitors in the skatefest. They stole her skateboard from her and broke it. Marcel (who was recently made an orphan and homeless) was present in a nearby alleyway and approached to see what the commotion was. Rimas, infuriated at the destruction of her dead father's precious skateboard, was attempting to fight back alone against the group of five boys, but she was too small and weak. As she was about to throw a punch, Marcel grabbed her wrist from behind. Rimas thrashed, attempting to headbutt Marcel, before realizing it was him.

Save your hands for playing the piano. They're too precious to waste on these guys. — Marcel Tano

Marcel proceeded to fight the five boys, who were all older than him, by himself. He was tall for his age, already standing at 6'7“, but Marcel at this time was quite underweight for his age. He didn't have much muscle on him. He was weak from hunger fatigue, and he was not a trained fighter. But no matter how hard the boys hit him, no matter how many times, he did not fall down. Marcel eventually landed to manage one clean hit on one of the boys, knocking him down. At this point, the boys fled. Marcel was at this point heavily bruised, covered in cuts, and one of his eyes was swollen shut.

Rimas brought Marcel to her house, where her mother and sister tended to his wounds. After hearing that his father had been murdered, and his mother fled the country later that evening, Marcel concluded that her mother must have killed her father and then abandoned him. Rimas, upon hearing of this, convinced her mother to adopt Marcel rather than letting him to back to dumpster diving for his meals.

The Velocity Quartet was a jazz quartet consisting of Rimas Nolie on piano and keyboards, Marcel Tano on double bass and electric bass, Larry Bridge on saxophone and flute, and Lily Thompson on drums.

Rimas gave up skateboarding after being attacked following her win, and returned her focus to music. She met Lily and Larry the following Autumn, when they recognized her from her television appearance immediately following the skateboarding contest, when she stole the wireless mic from a reporter and skateboarded to the platform of a half-pipe to deliver a rousing feminist speech.