Originally from the Uskwood of Nidal, Kai doesn't speak a whole lot about her past, only that she came from a dark place and would prefer not to go back there. But where her life started, -truly started...
Dragons. It started, with dragons.
Kai had grown up, hearing a mix of fearful and awe-filled whispers of dragons. Their grace, their power, their longevity and majesty were impressed upon her at a young age, and ever since then her mind was filled with an almost obsessive -need- to learn about them. She learned about Dahak, about Apsu and their great war. She learned about chromatic dragons, metallic dragons and all colours in between. Drakes, wyverns, kobolds, Everything she could get her hands on. She dreamed about them.
Eventually, she even made contact with one. Or at least, she believes she did. The eidolon that travels with her is proof enough that she made a pact of sorts with something, at least, gaining a fragment of its strength and gaining the ability to leave the shadows of the Uskwood of Nidal and in return pledging her time to the continued study of dragons and their well-being. She learned a great many things, and that, in turn, allowed her to find a job with an adventuring group that was set for the Dragon's Punchbowl.
It was here that it was rumoured that mysterious dragons visited this place, and as such she leapt at the chance to go. While she was there, they did indeed find the lair of a dragon. A black one, and it was a close thing indeed that they escaped unscathed. One of the trophies she found was a dragon egg, unhatched and kicked off to the side, and she took it with her. The thought that it might hatch hadn't even crossed her mind, considering it had been in essence kicked from the nest.
And then, one day, it did.
Imagine her surprise, when she found herself suddenly taking care of this tiny black scaled ball of spite and suddenly having to teach it -morals-. She settled along the Varisian coast, within a day's ride of Sandpoint, and decided to remain in place to train and raise the black dragon hatchling she suddenly found on her hands. Seven years, she spent with that baby dragon, teaching him how to sneak, how to hide, how to lie and how to take the measure of someone, using a mixture of flattery and manipulation to try and teach this creature that eating people who weren't bad, was bad.
Teaching it what was 'bad' was hard enough, considering the dragons natural hoarding tendencies and racial inclinations towards murder. Still, she did her best, and with the help of the eidolon taught it and helped it groom its natural abilities into something resembling the behavior of a true dragon. Knowing that the dragon was quickly getting too large to hide from the populace of Sandpoint, she decided to ask around and on learning from Ameiko that a dwarf she had seen around town known as Bombee had gone after the Heroes of Sandpoint decided to take the offered job. He hadn't returned when he was expected to, and so she promised to go after him.
It was time to make sure Viletongue (so named for his sarcastic words that dripped bile from time to time, literally and figuratively) fully understood that it was better to be loved than feared.
