Kia Snow

### Relatives

Orphaned and or abandoned (was found in the snow in the mountains not sure if parents hide her away because they were endangered or if they abandoned her there )

## Description

A Tabaxi in her late twenties, Kia moves with a natural grace that belies a palpable sense of purpose. Though her friends know her as a kind and caring soul, she is prone to bouts of melancholia when left to her own devices or haunted by her past failures.

The feline samurai dresses conservatively, revealing little of her furred skin beyond her face and hands, in what would be considered traditional clothes in her home world. Yet her garb emphasizes a praticality oriented toward ease of movement and combat readiness. When preparing for a fight, she usually dons a suit of armor made of hardened leather plates riveted together that, while still allowing full mobility, seems slightly at odd with her clothes, betraying a different, Daleosian origin.

Seemingly out of place, a necklace of animal bones hangs from her neck, while a wide collar with the name Nagdan in Giant worked into its pale leather is wrapped around one of her arm.

## History

Kia was found in a tree hollow during a blizzard by the head priest of the nearby temple he took her in and left her the care the head guard of the temple were she was raised alongside another orphanage boy a goliath named gol. The temple was located in the northern most part of her world where the closest town was a port town that you needed to take a boat that would travel for 2 weeks before reaching the mainlands, kia and gol were trained and tutored by wokgul a dragonborn who was in charge of guarding the temple were people from all over would come to to find themselves and take a vowel of silence only the guards and the head priest were allowed to speak (her and gol included), when she was younger her and wokgul went into town for supplies like the do every week but this time the local children decided to "invite " Kia to play with them wokgul  not giving it much thought allowed her to go, once she and the other children were out of sight from wokgul the children started picking on her and throwing rocks Kia ran from them and they chased after her. What felt like forever to Kia before she noticed the kids had stopped chasing her and she realized that she had run further into the mountains than she had before and was lost she tried to find her was back but after an hour a strong blizzard appeared out of nowhere making her lose sight of her tracks and made her take shelter in a nearby tree while she waited the cold took over her forcing her to fall asleep only to be awakened by the sound of wood breaking Kia tried to make herself smaller to hid not sure what was out there was met with her and the tree she was inside being sent flying as a bear of massive size swipping at the tree kia not thinking clear got up and started running but was caught almost immediately as she was once again sent flying by the creature leaving a huge gash on her left side of her torso. Unable to move or scream or anything she laid there holding her side waiting for the creature to kill her but as soon as her vision started to darken a blurred figure showed up fighting and chasing the creature away as she finally passed out completely. She awoke 2 weeks later she woke up inside the temple her wounds and frost bites completely healed except for the scare on her side  wokgul explained a hunter from town had found her just in time and brought her there to be treated Ever since Kia dedicated her time even more to her training. 22 years later Kia was on her way to town for the weekly supply run only to be ambushed by thugs and thrown into a rift along with them.