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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 {{date/sa|year=1168}}, eating only simple meals of boiled [[tallew]] with the occasional piece of fruit on special occasions. Around the year {{date/sa|year=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 {{date/sa|year=1173}}. Pai's superiors were worried that her zeolotry and her principles of self-denial would cause trouble in the court. They asked [[Lhan]], the another ardent already in the queen's retinue, to speak to her.