When she was a young student in the monastery of the Dark Moon monks, Beyl Van Yoren's teachers would constantly urge her to move faster and faster. They were finally appeased, when she suddenly began to be able to hit them four shots for every one of theirs. Despite her speed, Beyl found she had trouble concentrating on lessons, usually because she was moving so much faster than everyone else, that she would often grow bored and restless. Eventually she gave up the robes and the monastery to go and live with the wizard, whom she had traded 'personal favors' with for months, to earn the robes.