Kaira Yehven

Biographical information

Birthplace Valenntenia Born Died Age 24 Home Old Town, Valenntenia Sexuality Pronouns

Physical description

Race Human Sub-Race Gender Female Height 178cm Mass Hair color Ebony Eye color Dark Hazel Skin color Olive toned

Political information

Affiliation(s) Occupation Guardian of the Faith Stone Clan(s) Caste Domain Masters Apprentices Alias(es)

Out-of-character information

Writer doonaday Created on May 2023 Avatar alyysaartxox

I am a sword.

Kaira inherited many Yehven features, most notably her long, dark hair and olive toned skin. Her dark hazel eyes were inherited by her mother, as is the rest of her facial features and slim build. Despite her resemblance to her late mother, Kaira favours heavily to the Yehven traits. As a Guardian of a Stone, she wears Faith around her neck, hanging just below her heart.

The Havardurs, her maternal side's family, are dedicated to the many House of the Ancients built all over Valenntenia, sacred temples dedicated to the worship of the Ancients that created all that the City has come to know. Kaira was brought up in this practice until her interests changed to wanting to follow in the footsteps of her late Father, who died while serving in the Vanguard.

Kaira strives to do well in both legacies left by her parents, doing her best to represent the Yehven name that is intertwined into the history of the city. With her determination, Kaira excels in hand to hand combat, and masters the use of a whip sword, her father's chosen weapon. In turn, she also developed adept use of small daggers welded to chains that hang from cuffs at her wrist. The ancestral Yehven weapon, taught by her grandfather from a young age.

Although she wished to carry on her Father's legacy and serve as a high ranking official within the Vanguard, Kaira turned to her grandfather and his history as Somner. Her allocation to the Stone of Faith was not welcomed at first, viewing it as a slap in the face in her mother's memory, but the Stone was quick in aiding Kaira with relief.

Not much is known of this Stone, as finding a rightful Guardian became difficult in it's history. It takes a rare individual to fully come to an understanding of the Rune, as one unfortunate Guardian once descended into madness and believed that the Ancients were angered and looking to punish the Children.

"Are you praying again? What have you left to repent?"


Grief was an ever constant stranger Kaira could not welcome since the death of her parents when she was fourteen. Despite the tragedy, her grandfather ushered her towards the Vanguard and oversaw her specialised training in the Yehven family's choice of weapon. It did not take long for Arran to see his granddaughter possessed a rarity worthy of the Stone of Faith, and soon convinced Kaira to change courses.

There were no recorded texts on the Stone of Faith, only unintelligible scribbling of the few Guardians that were entrusted to the Stone. In a bid to find out her own answers, Kaira turned to her faith in prayer, asking the Ancients for guidance in these uncharted waters. She promised she would be the eyes to their Children, the ear to their woes, and the heart they needed to hold. The years of training before being presented the Stone, it was not unheard of for those in the poorer sectors of the city to call Kaira the "Daughter of Valenntenia" for her continued work in spreading hope and support to those that have struggled, crying out to the Ancients to be heard and answered. Kaira had the sort of healing sense that begged for souls that were crooked, broken, and depleted to flock to her, and she poured herself into helping the Children.

Residing in an abandoned House of the Ancients found in the Old Town, Kaira made home in a place that had every reason to fall apart. The City of Valenntenia did not produce many worshipers in recent years, and so countless temples were left forgotten to ruin, often being converted into spaces for events and others uses to better tend to the growing resources the City needed.

Kaira's home was small, a single room that once held pews before an altar with the Ancients depicted into marble behind it. She was a short distance from her grandfather's home, but at the end of the day, the City allowed the Guardian peace and solitude. It was on these lonely nights the young woman would be feeling the effects of the Stone of Faith, peering up at the marbled Ancients and ask for strength or their ear to hear her. Her prayers were never left satisfied, and by dawn, Kaira was too exhausted to call on the Ancients. So she turned to the dead, her loved ones that left the world too early. They could not communicate or indicate that they were able to hear her words, but Kaira could feel her Stone warm at her chest. When she told her grandfather, he became alarmed and brought it to the attention of the other Somners, afraid that her mind was not suited to the weight of Faith. After a brief meeting with the Absalon, it was declared that Kaira Yehven was of sound mind.

There is more yet to be discovered in the Faith Runestone, but past Guardians that have protected it all passed on the same result: Guardians to the Stone of Faith were unable to leave Valenntenia. This often left them out of contention for the role of Absalon, and leaves Kaira with an ache to visit places she remembered from her childhood exploring the Steppes with her father.

It is also noted by Yehven that she feels and experiences the other Stones, for there is a touch of Faith in each and every one of them and with this connection, is able to travel outside of Valenntenia city limits in only the company of another Guardian.