Kan'baela

Kan'baela was once the Tree of Life, its body created from the bones and its leaves from the skin of Fal-Dunzan by Zabae and Frygrothe, with the help of Kaeron and Darun Zar. The tree's purpose was to watch over the orphaned twin gods, Karun and Kazadun, which it did through beasts that sprouted from the fruit of life growing on its branches, guarding the siblings and tending to them, and by providing them with its sap, widely considered the most potently life-giving substance in existance amongst the Khiir.

In addition to raising the twins, the tree also contributed greatly to letting nature flourish, helping trees grow and animals thrive, a role that it would eventually dedicate itself wholly to after the twins reached adulthood and left to explore the world.

A long time after its creation, the tree of life was violently uprooted in a Thunderstorm, leading to its slow decline. Distraught, siblings whom the tree had nurtured tried to aid it, but to no avail. Eventually, when Karun finally gave up on the tree, Kazadun used a knife gifted to him by his mother to carve the tree's trunk in the image of a woman Once he had completed the wooden statue, Kazadun used the tree's very own sap to breathe life into the wood, causing it to turn to flesh, and the tree's spirit to reincarnate as the goddess Kan'baela.

Upon the tree's reincarnation, that which remained of its fruit fell to the ground, and from it were born the Khiir. These beings were as beasts, living finite lives and possessing feeble bodies, but as the tree had been carved in the likeness of the gods, the Khiir also inherited their will, creativity, and cunning.

Once a being of the wilds but now a god, Kan'baela has become somewhat of a mediator of the two. As a goddess, she represents all the ways in which thinking beings harness and coexist with nature; animal husbandry, the growing of crops, hunting, the preservation of the natural balance, and more, are all part of her domain.