Circe was born roughly 300 years ago to a Delphox mother, Cerridwen (Seh-rri-dwen), and a Hisuain Zoroark father, Mowdred, in a region called Almes. She, along with her sister, Dahlia, were adopted into their mother’s coven and assigned as familiars to a human witch partner. Circe was partnered to a witch named Evanora and the two became great friends. During her childhood growing up in the coven, she befriended another familiar Pokémon of her coven, an Abra named Gwydion. The two grew up together and evolved together, often training their magic and battle skills, as well as getting into lots of trouble together, which led them to have developed a very strong bond.

During her time period, humans started to become very supertitious towards magic users and certain kinds of Pokémon. Even a Pokémon who was able to communicate with humans somehow (through telepathy or other means) was considered a demon and hunted down. The witch hunts began and many people and their Pokémon were accused and sentenced to death by the Inquisition. Most of these targets, however, were women and that also included the Delphox species, as it was believed only females inherited the magical power (though not exactly true, as males can also wield magic, though females tend to be more powerful in it.) Because of the witch hunts, many female Delphoxes were killed and the females of the species were nearly going extinct, which is why modern-day Fennekin gender percentage has more males than females.

During these turbulent times, Circe and her coven had to live on the run, though one day they were caught by the local townsfolk and most of the witches, wizards and their familiars were executed, including Circe’s mother and her witch partner, Evanora. The only few survivals of her coven included Gwydion, now an Alakazam and her sister, Dahlia. Tired of witnessing people and Pokémon dying, she started to help as many as she could, rescuing familiar Pokémon, but mostly the female Delphoxes, from the Inquisition.

In a desperate attempt to save the females of her species, along with the other persecuted Pokémon of the time, Gwydion and Circe came up with the idea of founding a hidden village for the few remaining magic Pokémon. The village would later be known as “Hope”.

Trivia

• Circe is named after goddess Circe from greek mythology, a powerful sorceress that appears in Homer's Odyssey and had the power to transform men into animals;

• Cerridwen was named after a powerful sorceress of Welsh mythology. Though her name is usally pronounced with the K sound, I decided to keep it with the "S" sound, like "Seh-rri-dwen";