Abigail Goodwine, or Mother Abigal as her friends call her, is a middle-aged ratling female of obscure origins. As a young girl she was cast out from her clan - she was considered too different, and different is always a bad thing. The truth is that Abigail was a latent psyker (very rare among her kind). Somehow she survived on her own, learned to master her powers (after a fashion) and grew into something of a wise woman.

How she ended up with the Reavers is equally unclear, but is seems likely that she is a native of one of the conquered worlds in Finial sector and that she somehow wormed her way onto a ship. By the time the fleet anchored as Kazim she had come to the attention of Master Lumin (always on the lookout for rogue psykers and sorcerers to replace casualties). It was decided that her particular band of powers - and her ratling status - made her an ideal candidate for the infiltration teams.