Kahina

Early Life
Born in Calimport, Kahina al-Murzim is the youngest of five children and only daughter to a guardsman and weaver. The family of seven lived in one of the poor drudachs of the city near the ocean, got by with hard work and five finger discounts. Kahina fell into right crowd at an early age: a gang of urchins and scoundrels half-supported by one of the crime guilds. The lowly bunch of misfits stole from markets, pick pocketed foreigners, and lied and cheated their way to a handful of coin.

Over the years the guards claimed her four brothers with two enlisting to follow after their father’s footsteps and the other two slain for stealing from the wrong people. The guards seemed rigged and as corrupt as the crime guilds to Kahina, so chose a path unfettered by law. At sixteen she joined one of the marauding groups outside of the city that were often paid by the crime guilds to raid and pillage caravans. This would put pressure on unguarded groups to seek protection. The groups with guards from Calimport were attacked but only in jest with both guards and raiders putting on a show of clashing weapons. But those with foreign guards were attacked head on to claim any spoils.

At twenty-one, one of the members of her group sold them out for more gold and many of her fellow marauders would die that day. Kahina and a few others would escape death by hiding beneath the corpses of the fallen. She returned home to find the guard already there and was taken into custody by her own brothers. She avoided execution and was thrown in jail, where she sat for two years.

At the end of her second year, Kahina was able to petition an early release if she swore to serve the temple as a priestess. It was there where she found Silvanus and there where she studied. After a year she headed on a pilgrimage to the Forest of Myr where she was finally inducted as an initiate. In her rash start to live by the teachings of Silvanus she raided a nearby village in hopes of ‘freeing’ the farm animals there. Again, the law caught up to her and after busting some noses she found herself at the mercy of the guard. It was then that Edric stepped in and took her under his wing and it was then that her adventures began.