Alma Wade was born on August 26, 1979 as the daughter of Harlan Wade and his wife Elizabeth Wade. Alma's mother died during a childbirth, leaving Alma in the care of her father. For unknown reasons, Alma was endowed with tremendous psychic powers, as a result of which she suffered from nightmares and was able to feel the negative emotions of the people around her. Her father noticed her powers shortly after her birth and incorporated her into the experiments of Armacham Technology Corporation when she was only three years old. Armacham introduced Alma to the "Project Paragon", where they tested her for every kind of psychic power, and Alma herself passed all the tests. Alma was tested and experimented almost continuously to discover the source of her power and how she responded to external stimuli.