Kensa was born to a family made up of four mares and two stallions involved in a commited polyamorous relationship. She was raised by all of them and is not entirely sure which were her biological parents and never cared to find out.

At the age of three Kensa wished to leave home for a place unlike any she had been before and so came to Beqanna by means of whatever mysterious force so often deposits beings in that land. In the field she met Rhaegor and Magnus. Immediately taken with the mute colt she followed him back to Hyaline, becoming a resident there.

Her first year in the mountain kingdom was spent exploring and getting to know others her age. She was one of many youngsters attracted to The Sanctuary during the summer before the plague the mountains were overflowing with young hormonal horses. During this period Kensa met a melancholy stallion of her own age named Litotes. A romance sparked between the pair immediately, Kensa's vivacity drawing the cremello stallion like a moth to the flame. The two of them temporarily distracted from other potential conquests.

When The Plague rolled over Beqanna Kensa could not leave Hyaline behind, and so remained in the mountain kingdom with Litotes, Solace, and a very few others to hold onto their alpine home. In time Hyaline was given to Litotes and Kensa to rule, a territory of the Eastern Kingdom.

That Spring Kensa gave birth to her firstborn with Litotes, Brunhilde. They also adopted two other children Astarielle and Crynn..

It wasn't long before Litotes attempted to capture Starsin from Loess. Vulgaris countered the steal and kept Litotes as his prisoner. Back in Hyaline Kensa was frightened and sick with three young children to care for. She went to the Cove to report his disappearance to Kagerus and Solace, she was not received warmly.

Kensa made up her mind to go to Loess to try and ask its King to release Litotes. Instead she met Litotes there, he was in his lion form and the two fought. Litotes drew Kensa's blood before she fled back to Hyaline without seeing the king. Back in Hyaline Amet was placed opposite her in leadership without her consent. During this period she returned to Ischia, having met Ivar on a diplomatic mission and been attracted to him. He fathered the son she bore before the plagues end, Valek.

The plague and its difficulties and betrayals fire-hardened Kensa. Following it she chose to move forward as the lone power in Hyaline. She'd had a difficult reunion with Litotes but became pregnant again. Ilma who had taken the throne after Solace and Kagerus stepped down at last turned it over to Dawn, Kensa's best friend. Kensa was reunited with Litotes again following his death trying to cure the plague, she births Kelynen but is unable to bond with the boy after the stress if losing his father and difficult birth.

Kensa meets Leliana shortly before the war of thorns and fire that rages between that magician Queen of Tephra and the dragon King of Loess, Castile. She admires Leliana and considers her a friend, and her relationship with Castile is complicated by his relationship with her husband, their shared border, and the attraction she feels toward him. When Kensa goes to the battlefield, she does not fight anyone but attacks her Queen and friend Dawn before the polar bear shifter can harm Litotes, the three of them scatter and Kensa helps Starsin to rescue a gravely wounded Ophanim.

Following the atrocities of the war, Kensa returns to Hyaline determined to scrub away its history of pacifism. She hopes to see Hyaline become a place of pleasure, freedom, and the kinds of little disruptions that satisfy Beqanna's desire for chaos. A visit to Ophanim in his Sylvan prison results in pregnancy with her second daughter, Soothe.

In the time that follows Kensa has an affair with Starsin and falls in love with a young stallion named Brigade. Her long relationship with Litotes comes to a terrible and painful end, though her love for him abides she has done unforgivable damage to her mate. She gives birth to a daughter, Aloy, who is unmistakably Brigade's but the romance disintegrates.

Kensa loses her way and leaves Hyaline, ashamed and heartbroken she chooses to live apart from her many friends. Her daughter Aloy leaves her behind at a very young age. During her time in solitude she bears a child of Carnage, Anath, she abandons the girl in the den.

The end of Kensa's self-imposed banishment ends when Leilan accidentally teleports her to Icicle Isle during the summer of 217.