Born to a lower-income working girl in a small coastal town in Gondor, Faye was raised by the women in the establishment where her mother worked for the first years of her life. Despite promising Faye to the matron when she was old enough, her mother stole her away in the night several years after she was born, when she was growing old enough to train. Both options were dangerous, but it felt like the lesser of two evils, for Faye would begin training to become a working girl if she stayed.

She was given to her father, a corsair captain from Umbar. The rest of her childhood was spent on the docks of a corsair ship. She was a quick learner, eager to learn anything about sailing that she could, while excelling in swordplay lessons. A friend on the ship gifted her two ornate daggers, and she still considers them to be her most prized possessions. After spending her childhood on the seas, Faye bid farewell to her father and returned once to her mother and the other working women who raised her for the first few years of her life.

When she left Gondor, she took on her mother's name, Roselyn.

Rose spent a few years traveling around Middle-Earth until she eventually found herself in Bree, where she made herself a new family. Throughout the years, Roselyn would come and go to and from Bree, often remaining in the town where she worked and had friends, but would occasionally pick up and go off on an adventure. But that life had never really sustained her, and Rose had never wanted to live so far from the ocean she was raised on.

In a way that she would only be able to describe as cowardly, Rose fled from the life she had built in Bree and set her path for Minas Tirith. She kept her mother's name when she returned to the city, feeling as if she was not and never would be again the little girl who had last been there. Once she reached the city, she began working as a performer at the Blue Theatre.