Dakkaira Xeramin

## Kai (Dakkaira Xeramin)

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> That's why I don't fucking pray!..
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***Kai, upon praying in random and getting to Asgorath.***

Kai is a tiefling rogue and a member of the Unholy Tempest.

## Description

### Appearence

Kai is a young female tiefling with grayish blue skin that covered in scars. At the start of the jorney she was wearing simple dark clothes in which she left Waterdeep. She carries two shortswords and as an assassin of Cursed Beetles she has a tattoo of the guild on the back of her neck.

    Upon meeting Spark she got herself more tattoos: a dancing flames around her calfs and a pinup girl on her right leg. She also got a new dark red shirt from him, that she wears ever since.

### Personality

She is very friendly (as if i-don't-have-time-for-this-shit-tell-me-what-i-need-or-you-will-die friendly :D). Rather be mean than vulnerable. After loosing her friends and joining The Party took some time to let them close (trust issues and all that jazz). Nowadays tends to make harsh decisions that start to worry her party members.

"I found love in booze" - trope.

## Biography

#### Background

She was surviving in Waterdeep as long as she can remember. It's hart to surprise people there by yet another orphan, that was trying to keep ends meet.

#### Joining Cursed Beetles

Relationships between tieflings and humans were, lets say, a bit strained. So when one of the human kind offered Kai a place in the guild she was sceptical to say the least. Whatever Veenarra saw in that teenage girl's eyes, maybe how skilled she has been stealing food or that undying will to survive, but she decided to take her in and soon became her mentor.

Years gone by, Kai became stronger, faster but no, not taller :D. She finally had people she called family: Veenarra, Marielle, Justas, Daruman and Grodar. Despite them being very different and bickering all the time they've got each others backs and were ready to protect one another no matter what.

Everything went wrong when they took big job in the vault. The payment was huge so even tho they had to rob one of the most dangerous man in Waterdeep Dullahan aka Raphael Wargrave they decided to go for it, and lay low afterwards.

The only one to get out of there alive was Kai.

#### Escaping Waterdeep

She got kicked out from Cursed Beetles and fled the town getting away from Wargrave's hunt dogs. While running away she made herself a promise that sacrifice of her mentor won't go to waste. Vee was suppose to be the one to get out, but she saved Kai instead, forfeiting her own life. She escaped Waterdeep to a small town named Nightstone, where she came across a suave tiefling leader of a small unnamed gang who was looking for people to pull off a few odd jobs for one of his contractors. His name was Garad Onehorn. After some time he told Kai that he had a special job for her. The job included a rogue (Kai), a warrior (an unnamed Goliath Barbarian who worked for Garad) and a mage (a warlock they was supposed to meet in Daggerford), to deliver a young girl from Daggerford to Boareskyr Bridge. Being not really a good guy Garad threatened Kai that if for any reason she do not wish to help deliver this girl from point A to point B, he will gladly tell Wargrave where the last person who tried stealing from his vault is. So he blackmails her to join, promising, that he would keep her secret if she'll finish the task.

#### Meeting the party

Upon arriving into Daggerford Kai wasn't surprised to discover that she wasn't the only one to be forced into this job. After long and not realy pleasant conversation Garad managed to "convince" a warlock named Doran to join. Ioanna Crow was a young beautiful lady that was going to accompany some wealthy man on a ball, so the task was preaty easy would everything went as planned, but oh well. During their travel Kai observed her companions and as usual for mercenary was goliath (that didn't even bothered to introduce himself) as unusual was Doran. He was wearing an expensive clothes, hated sleeping in woods, had that annoing aristocratic vibe and his face, his face was somewhat familiar to Kai but she decided to ignore that. What she didn't ignore tho is his attitude so he quickly got himself a nickname - Rich Boi.

The jorney was coming to an end, they were near the West Gate of Boareskyr Bridge when suddenly the goliath, that was leading the horses, got swept away from his seat in one motion. Whatever it was, it was fast. To avoid Ioanna from running to the woods and probably making everything worse, Kai decided to knock her out. Distracted on Ioanna Kai lost the beast from sight, just to be slashed by it's claws the next second. Hearing someone’s screams her world faded into darkness as she lost consciousness.

Upon waking up, which she thought she'd never do again, she was met by a pair of beautifull eyes of a teenage air genasi girl, that was taking care of her wounds. The girl introduced herself as Anemone. The two that were accompanying her: a merchant from far East - At-Taajir and redhaired tall woman - Mistral. There were others too, that came across this tavern moments before Doran and town boy got unconscious Kai and Ioanna there. The tallest and the one that stood out the most were a Warforged barbarian that called themself Bop Blitzkrieg. They stood together with two tiefling woman: the one on the left looked a bit off, introdused herself as Asteria and the other one with huge horns - Nyx.

Leaving Lady Ioanna to rest in "Water Under the Bridge" and getting to know each other a bit, a fresh accebled party desided to investigate the attack near the West Gate.

## Relationships

#### Party

It's... complicated

She had to be on guard ever since she was a kid (you kinda need that if you want to survive the slumps of Waterdeep). And since she is not the nicest type and find it hard to open up to other people, she get misjudged a lot. When they first met as a party she introdused herself as Kai, never mentioning her full name, which was a habit of hers since she joined CB - only people she trusted knew her full name. It was silly and a bit childish but it was making her feel somewhat safer and in control.

**At-Taajir and Anemone** - unfortunately they didn't traveled much together but Kai had a bit of creeps around At-Taajir, as for Anemone - she respects her and owns her a debt for saving her life from the time they've first met.

**Bop** - actually were the first one to know Kai's full name, they look trustworthy in her eyes.

**Mistral** - oficially the only one who managed to outdrink Kai, and she holds this redhead very dear ever since.

**Asteria** - Kai thinks they have a lot in common (except maybe alcohol intolerance) she found a lot of comfort and enjoyment in their matches in Dragon Chess and quite talks.

**Nyx** - ok, hear me out, yes she has a little bit of a crash on her, but who wouldn't? Have u seen Nyx? But out of that she never fails to put a smile on Kai's face and have quite a perconality. But seems no matter what they've beed trough together she still tries to deal with her problems by herself.

**Doran** - ugh, Rich Boi. Joking, it's getting better, he still manages to get on her nerves without even trying but they don't fight that much anymore.

**Aleid** - no strong feeling towards our new companion, she doesn't share much about her past, but seem to be loyal to the party - which is enough for Kai.

**Catnip** - an old friend of Nyx, that seems to manage to hide a lot of personal pain under smiles and free spirit personality. She worries Kai. A lot.

**JJ** - he always rumbles about some adjustments and other stuff Kai don't understands but he seems to be the most calm and cold minded of them. Or so she thought, he doesn't put much trust in their party these days or so it seems.

**Pepe** - a fresh member of The Unholly Tempest, that managed to keep his lively personality even tho he spent around 30ty years imprisoned in Ivory Tower. He has quite a refreshing influence on the party. He also added shadows to Kai's new sword, which made her super happy. Kai founds him fun to be around even tho he has an unhealthy addiction to goblin coffee.

#### Cursed Beetles

**Veenarra** - human, leader of their smol group, red hair, amber eyes and warm smile. She was one of the best guild members and had a big amount of respect even from the elders of the CB. Took Kai in and became her mentor, also becoming a mother figure for the girl in the process.

**Marielle** - half elf, blond hair, green eyes, about 21 y.o., extremely good with knives. Kai's teenage love interest, she tried to get her attention by becoming the best assassin in CB but Mari saw her as opponent instead. Kai got denied in the end but they still maintained amazing frienship.

**Daruman** - bulky green halfing, tank of the group, muscles > brain. Extreme softy out of combat, used to bring pastries to Kai when she was younger.

**Justas** - sneaky human, grey eyes, dark brown hair (even tho he was in his twenties there was a good amount of grey hair), always at ease and with a cocky smile. Hated Kai from day 1, coz he wanted Vee to be his mentor. Save yourself first type of the guy. Even tho their relationships with Dakkaira were far from friendly they grew up on each other trough years they've spend working together.

**Grodar** - dragonborn, brain of the group. Taught Kai in old ways of assassins. He always used to say: "to know how to inflict the most pain you need to experience it firsthand". Vee never learnt about those lessons. Kai hated him, but had a big mount of respect for the guy.

## Character information

#### Goals

She once had a dream to become strong enough to be at the top of the food chain in underground of Waterdeep. She wanted to give kids on the streets a chance: "I want to give them a purpose, they will be spies and thieves but at least they would have food and cover".

She wants to punnish those who responsible for destruction of her family.

#### Proficiencies

* Acrobatics
* Deception
* Insight
* Intimidation
* Perception
* Stealth

#### Notable items

**Grimroot Blade** (*Rare*): This wicked-looking rapier has a hilt wrapped in thorny vines. It deals an additional **1d6 Poison Damage** on a hit. Once per long rest, the wielder can use an action to command the blade to grow temporary razor-sharp thorns, granting an extra **1d6 Slashing Damage** on all attacks for 1 minute.

**Twin Rings - Unfair // Advantage** (*Rare*): These beautifully crafted silver rings are able to provide advantage to it’s wearers; given two different people are wearing one ring each. While two different friendly creatures are wearing these rings, they both get the following ability: whenever anything would impose disadvantage on attacks to you, you can spend the *Reaction* of the other person to instead turn that disadvantage into an advantage. This feature can be used a number if times equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded down before needing a long rest (if both characters have PB of +3, then they can each use this ability once).

**Fang of Marnuurhax** (*Uncommon*): As a *Bonus Action* the owner of the Blade can make a ranged attack using the same ability modifier they use for melee or spell attacks. On hit the blades deal **1d4 Piercing Damage** and then magically reappear in the hand of the person that threw them.

**Ring of the Careful** (*Uncommon*): A small silver ring adorned with a pale blue crystal in the middle. Grants it's wearer the ability to cast the *Alarm* spell at will, without expending a spell slot. You can use this ring to once per Long Rest cast the *Alarm* Spell without expending a spell slot.

**Stone of Good Luck (Luckstone)** (*Uncommon*): While this polished agate is on your person, you gain a +1 bonus to ability checks and saving throws.

## Trivia

* She was the one to name herself, when she was old enough to understand the purpose of it.

* Since she doesn't know when she was born, she decided to count the date she joined the Cursed Beetles as her birthday.

* Kai once forgot how to breathe for 16 full seconds after seeing Gorast come out of bath.