Kadota

Kadota, born **Basirah Drorhis**, is a tiefling knowledge cleric featured in the Stormguard campaign. She is also featured in the Dragonsverse campaign as an NPC. In all iterations, she was born blind and has adapted to the challenges that this presents. Her quarterstaff doubles as a walking stick. Her blindness is not full blindness, but a big blind spot in the middle of her sight and pretty terrible vision on her peripherals. She can discern light and dark.

## Biographical Information

### Family

Ruslan Drorhis (brother), Carol (maternal figure), Tom (brother figure)

## Appearances

### Appears in

Stormguard

Stormguard Kadota was a follower of the goddess Ioun.

### Appearance

Kadota is a slim lavender-colored tiefling. She has an eye tattooed on her forehead, but has many other tattoos covering her body that are not visible. Most notable are the insignia of the sun, a symbol of her familial group, on the center of her chest, and the eye on her forehead.

Burn marks cover either lower side of her face but obscure her left eye. Currently she dresses modestly and movably. She covers her horns and arms with bandages or some other kind of cloth.

### Personality

An intense but kind person. Not very lighthearted, takes what she does extremely seriously. She has a clear goal and sets out to reach it with determination. Even so, she truly believes in what she does and truly believes in doing good for people, helping them in any way she can -- but the way she knows is through information.

### Backstory

Kadota was born to a group of nomadic mountain Tieflings who populate the areas just outside of Stormguard. She was outcast pretty early on due to her near full blindness from birth. It would have been unbearable for her and she probably would have been left behind to die in the mountains had it not been for her brother Ruslan, who was 8 years older. He took her under his wing and taught her how to fight and adapt to her blindness. Kadota grew up hearing stories of Stormguard all her life and it sparked a need for knowledge in her -- she knew she had to bring knowledge to the world so that she could help others understand the world they lived in. Because of this, she developed a keen interest in the ancients.

Kadota was cast out of the nomads as a teenager despite her work with Ruslan. He decided to leave with her, and for the first time the two set out to go down the mountain and into the world. Quickly Kadota began her quest for information, and after the siblings had been roughing it for a few years and Kadota’d been doing amateur archaeology work they gained the favor of a company willing to fund larger projects. Ruslan stayed on as her bodyguard.

Kadota began to find things that made the company antsy. There was an attempt to trap her and keep her from sharing her findings with the world, to which she was confused. Turns out the company was only in it for the profit and the information, woohoo! [tbh i dont have a lot of the details on this company worked out but their role is defined enough that i can like write about them on here just know that it’s not fully developed yet]. Ruslan turned on her in support of the company and attempted to catch her, and when she ran, the objective became to kill her. He is the one who gives her the burn scars on her face.

Wounded, Kadota went as far as she could and retreated into the mountains. She laid there, ready to die, before she passed out. When she woke up, she was in bandaged and in the company of another woman. This is Y’drena! Y’drena nursed her back to health and the two fell in love in the process. Kadota learned that Y’drena had lived on the mountains essentially her whole life and she teaches her about the goddess Ioun (turns out this was an ancient religion that Y’drena had found an old shrine and the texts for). They lived out their lives in the mountains, searching for more ancient knowledge, and Kadota learned even more about Stormguard.

9 years later, Ruslan found Kadota in the mountains. He killed Y’drena, who in her last moments, urged Kadota to run because she knew where to go. Kadota ran into Stormguard because she knew her brother could not follow. Even so, she changed her name, hid her tattoos as best she could, and changed her voice. Kadota laid pretty low until she was scouted by Carol and Tom. She joined their faction because she deeply agreed with their cause, and she quickly grew close with the two of them. Now she feels a greater devotion than she ever has to her quest for knowledge with this new hope that they can stop the curse.

## Biographical Information

### Occupation

Host, Head archivist, Dragon council member

## Appearances

### Appears in

Dragonsverse

In the Dragonsverse Campaign, Basirah appears using her birth name and is a host of Suvi. She has appeared in the player's dreams.