Kaia

The Kaia, also known as Mother of Nightmares lives in the Spurforest near Akanamere.

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.

Folklore has it that the kaia is an ancient beast from an other plan. It was to have been a serpent charged by charged by foul gods to devour the children of the genassi. It then already was afraid of the light which a clever child abused to frighten it. It reatreated 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.