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Nothing of Pai's early history is known. It is uncertain when she joined the ardentia, but she chose the Devotary of Denial as her sect of Vorinism.{{book ref|sa2|i|12}} She began living a life of asceticism and abnegation around the year {{Rosharan date|1168}}, eating only simple meals of boiled [[tallew]] with the occasional piece of fruit on special occasions. Around the year {{Rosharan date|1172}}, Pai began serving as an ardent in the [[Alethi]] capital city, Kholinar. She requested with some persistence to be assigned to be a member of the retinue of the Alethi queen, [[Aesudan Kholin]], and after a year working in the city her request was granted in late {{Rosharan date|1173}}. Pai's superiors were worried that her zeolotryzealotry and her principles of self-denial would cause trouble in the court. They asked [[Lhan]], another ardent already in the queen's retinue, to speak to her.

Pai left Lhan and went to the [[People's Hall]], the location from which the monarch typically addressed the people of Kholinar.{{book ref|sa2|i|12}} Working by [[sphere]]light through the night, she wrote the [[glyph]]s of the ten foolish attributes before the dais upon which sat the [[Common Throne]]. Beneath each glyph Pai wrote explanation of how the queen exemplified the attribute. These paragraphs were not just an attack on the queen, but a denouncement of the lighteyes and the government itself. Pai remained bowed there before the Throne until she was discovered by Lhan and the other ardents in the morning. Pai was executed the morning of the very next day for her actions. Queen Aesudan would later falsely claim Pai had been trying to refound the Hierocracy.{{book ref|sa3|84}}