If there was ever a child brought into the world with nothing; Kadlin was that child. Her father had spent a life plundering the roads of Sutherland; the leader of a band of men who made a living off other's misfortune. All that would change one day when he met a beautiful young woman in the village of Darkwood in Skyforest and she convinced him to give up his life of banditry and remain. He would take on a job in Darkwood utilizing the only skills he really had; weapon making and repair. In time, Jonthan Ramsey would soon marry his beloved Calina and a child would soon follow; Kadlin.
Kadlin grew up a child who knew nothing of riches and luxury, and little of the world outside of Darkwood. The village was self-sufficient, tho it did have trade goods brought to it on occasion and every so often a wary traveler would stop and stay at its one Inn where her mother worked as a server; Oak's Rest.
At a very young age, Kadlin had an interest in the forge and craft that her father was well-skilled in. For countless hours she would stay within the simple open forge in the center of the village and watch her father craft swords, daggers and other small weapons of imported metal. He became well-known outside of Skyforest, and his weapons were sought far and wide. She was proud of her father, and took note of the care and commitment he put in every weapon he crafted.
When she was old enough, her father decided to teach her the craft as well, and the pretty young blond would often return home to her mother with a black smudged face and dirty hands. It did not bother her in the least; Kadlin had found something she enjoyed, and that her father could be proud of. She became well skilled, but there was something else she wished to learn, something her mother simply forbade; Kadlin wanted to learn how to use the very weapons she was helping to craft.
Many a night in the back of the forge, Jonathan would train his daughter in the basic use of a sword. She never questioned where he actually learned his own skill, but deep down she knew he had a past that he kept from her. She had a knack, a certain skill for the blade, and this made her father proud.
Life was simple. Life was good. Kadlin's family had everything they needed; that was until that fateful night where the rain fell heavy and the village ran red. They came quickly, 6-8 men or horseback with nothing on their minds but taking what they desired from Darkwood and riding out into the night. It was late, Jonathan was finishing up something at the forge, and Kadlin was asleep upstairs in the Inn while her mother tended to the few remaining patrons who were on their last drinks.
Two of the men stormed into the Inn and without a word struck down the few patrons who remained before they could even rise from their seats. The screams and cries of horror awoke the girl of 18 and as soon as the initial shock sunk in, she quickly reached for the blade she kept hidden beneath her bed and dashed downstairs. What she saw caused her to freeze in her tracks; her own mother being held down on a table by one of the men, while the other was attempting to have his way with her.
Something overtook Kadlin at that very moment, something to this day which she cannot explain, but it was a sense of fervor and anger that dismissed all fear. A swing of her blade and the man holding her mother fell to the floor, a large gash across his back. The other man's eyes went wide and he pulled himself from her mother and reached for his blade. Kadlin does not clearly remember what happened next, but what she does remember is that the man lay dead at her feet and her father rushing into the Inn, his own blade covered in blood.
In the days that followed, Kadlin could not get out of her mind the incident that happened on that rainy night. She could not fathom what she had done, or how she had done it. Her father tried to comfort her in saying, "Nar guided your hand Kadlinyou owe him." Whether or not this was true or not, it was all Kadlin had to hear. She made the decision right there and then to devote her life to the God who she felt helped save her mother. She would travel to the nearest Temple of Nar and devote herself to his teachings and spreading his word. After seven years of dedicated service, Kadlin now finds herself in the Temple in Stormhaven.