Alexandra Sullivan grew up in Beigor.  Her mother had died in childbirth, and she was raised by her uncle, who was a professor at Javert University.  When she was nine, Lex wandered too close to a pot of boiling water and knocked it over.  She was blinded, but a healer was able to restore her vision.  No one is sure why, but after this, Lex developed the unusual ability to see through opaque objects at will.  Lex was an exceptionally bright girl and was accepted to Thuy Conservatory at the age of fifteen.  Her first year there, she discovered that she wanted to be a writer, and so she dropped out of school.  She applied for a position at the local newspaper and was immediately accepted.  Three years later, she was assigned with a weekly column, following the story of the Phoenix Fighters in Shaldani.  She found those that the Phoenix Fighters had helped and got stories from them.  However, a local publisher enjoyed her column so much that he commissioned her, for a generous amount of money, to go to Shaldani herself and write a book on the Phoenix Fighters first hand.  While Lex is definitely rooting for the Phoenix Fighters to win, she’s not in Shaldani to do anything but write her story.  She’s insatiably nosy and is a firm believer in the end justifying the means.