[member="Thanatos Eligos"]
Guess what? What she's doing here is perfectly acceptable. It is well within reason to start with a handful of low-level abilities, providing you can back it with the character's history, and... this part is crucial: you do it before you start writing the character.
Between self-discovery, experimentation, and some training from... oh, a relative, a prior master, yada yada yada, whatever... what [member="Driana"] is doing is fine. What isn't cool is starting with very difficult and/or very powerful abilities, and/or saying that you're starting out as a master of this and that.
Starting out with absolutely nothing is also fine. It's all a matter of preference.