Colleen was born and raised in a small Highland village where she lived with her parents and sister. She had an extremely happy childhood, whose only negative aspects where her father's repeated efforts to marry her to men in the village that he deemed eligible. Colleen with her defiant manner, refused her father's orders repeatedly and went to great lengths to turn away suitors. Frequently, she would resort to turning her suitors purple with a faerie fire that she had learned from the local druids in her druidic studies.
However, Colleen's ordinary and peaceful life was destroyed by the raid upon her village by humanoids from the Bone March. She and her sister, Rowan, returned from a trading mission in the next village to find their village in ruins. Their parents killed, Rowan's child missing or dead, and their home destroyed, necessity forced both sisters to become adventures. They took to the road with those few possessions that they could muster, with the hope of finding shelter from the war in the Clan Seat.
Since she and her sister commenced upon their journey they have had a multitude of strange adventures with a group of friend whose goal is to free the Highlands of its oppressors. Her adventures have helped her strengthen the bond of the MacLeods with the Sidhe, as she and her sister worked to heal a rift between the worlds with the singing of a Highland song and a sword dance. She has also helped to rid the highlands of a demon named Jaspa, Lord of the Abyss, a predator or two, Baron Marsir and his Great Kingdom rabble, and a multitude of giants under the command of Morag, son of Balor. Most noticeably to her credit is her conversion of a cloud giant, who was about to make mince meat out of her party, into a harmless chicken.
However, despite her numerous experiences, Colleen still remains physically unchanged by the war. Though a little older, she is still the same willowy 5' 9" young woman with long straight walnut colored hair and hazel eyes. Always modest about her appearance, she wears the traditional garb of a single Highland woman, and she is unadorned by jewelry with the exception of one ring (which her sister insists that she wear). In fact, her only extravagance is a mist-gray cloak with the silhouettes of a wolf and a hawk embroidered upon the back and lined with the MacLeod plaid.
Psychically, on the other hand, the war has changed Colleen a great deal. It has served to increase her abilities and experience as a druid immensely (while earning her the respect of the more powerful members of her order). Through those experiences, she has also become much wiser than her years, and she finds that she yearns to have balance restored to the Highlands so that she may return to her village and restore the sacred druid grove that was once there. Perhaps then, and only then, she will begin to sing the songs that she so carefreely sang in her youth.
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