Kalani

History and Ascendance

After the founding of Firsthome, the races and kingdoms of humanity looked to disperse throughout the continent and make their own claims to land and resources. As a people in small minority, the Abeeku struggled to find a land. At first, they settled in Farasha, near Firsthome, but found themselves in a climate and winters they found untenable, surrounded by powerful noble families constantly seeking their alliance to topple other powerful noble families. It was in this situation that a girl of the Abeeku no more than twelve years old, named Kalani, took up her walking staff and began a trek southward to find a new homeland. She left in the night so that no one could stop her and traveled south many months. Her people and family thought her dead and mourned her. Then, three years after she had left, Kalani returned and declared that she had found the land in which the Abeeku should settle. Her people were, at first, skeptical … until she pulled from her pack the skin of a great white tiger. The people followed Kalani to the island now known as Hakaba. Once there, Kalani assisted in setting up several settlements and lead expeditions throughout the island to explore and map it. 
She was a natural leader, but never took on title and never asked others to follow her. As time went on and her deeds grew, however, the people begged her to lead them and would often ignore their own elders and rulers in favor of listening to what she said or did. Knowing this situation to be untenable and not wishing to accept a position of leadership, Kalani declared that she was off to explore the greater world and return to the Abeeku trade, treasure, and knowledge. She did just that, but never returned herself. She became known as The Wandering Woman throughout the rest of the known world and at one point wandered into the sunset and into the godhead. White Tigers are considered sacred animals to the Abeeku and are never slain, but rather protected, by them. Abeeku will also often send their young ones on a year long ‘wandering’ as their rite of passage into adulthood.

Appearance and Emissaries

Church of Kalani

"Wander and be free"
Titles: The Wandering Woman, The Unbound Soul, She of Many Lands
Symbol: A Walking Staff
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Followers: Kalanic