Kaia

The Kaia Mother of Nightmares lived in the Spur Forest near Akanamere.

Description
These horrid creatures use darkvision and tremorsense to hunt prey.

Ecology
A mature mother reproduced asexually birthing up to a dozen kaia spawn at a time, then the monster would devour all things in its path, including the spawn.

History
It causes the genasi Ghaelya to tell of tales in 1479 DR, told to her by her mother. She later leans against a nearby tree in the Spur and mumbles a old rhyme that asks the nightmares to leave her alone and remove her name from the trees.

Rumors and legends
Folklore has it that the kaia is an ancient beast from an other plane. It was to have been a serpent charged by charged by foul gods to devour the children of the genasi. It then already was afraid of the light which a clever child abused to frighten it. It retreated into the deep forest. When the Blue Breath of Change, guessed this is a reference to the Spellplague.

The kaia was told to be the reason of the nightmares Ghaelya and the other children experience as to test their courage for those who cried out would have their names carved into the trees of the Spur Forest. So that the kaia would know them and know that he could devour them without having to fear the light.

Someone claims the kaia "eats it's own young or runs them from the Spur Forest. They start out small but they're never pretty" To a good ear the rustling of the grass and punctuated by the sound of tiny teeth and little growls interfere with the unmistakable sound of tiny claws scratching on stone. Slippery tendrils of darkness might separates them from the glow of a torch or a lowly burning campfire as they slither and gripe for flesh.