Sheika was born to two loving parents. However, they were herd-outcasts, for reasons they never told her. Thus it was always just the three of them during Sheika's childhood. Yet, she was actually quite content with her life. She used to roam around the world with her parents like a happy little nomad family. While she had no peers for friends, she discovered early on she could talk to fish. In this way, fish became her friends instead. However, one day an accident happened, which resulted in her parents passing away. This was, ofcourse, a traumatic experience for the young Sheika. Suddenly she was alone in the world, and she had no idea where to go. With no one left to talk to except for the fish, she fully turned to them in order to forget her grief and fill the void her parents left. For a long time she just followed rivers and other bodies of water in order to stay close to her friends, and did not search out the company of her own species anymore. In the end, the rivers lead her to Beqanna. She sees her arrival at this horse-filled country as a sign that she should mingle with her own species again. However, her long time with the fish has resulted in her being a bit socially stunted. For example, she often misses subtle clues and undertones when conversing with other equines or breaks the most basic of (unwritten) rules. This may lead to at best, social blunders, and at worst, dangerous situations (i.e. just waltzing into herds' lands without a clue, offending higher ranked individuals).