Once, long ago, Dokala was a young Halfling girl living in a village in the Ringing Mountains. When she came of age, she decided to set out and see more of the world. No more than a few days travel from the tree line, she was captured by slavers and was eventually sold to a noble in Ur Draxa. There, it was discovered that she was very gifted in the Will (psionics) and received training. In time, she was a respected (though still owned) adviser to the nobleman (now a Templar of Borys - The Dragon). He owner decided that she was indispensable and that the only to assure retention of her services was to have her raised as a Kaisharga.
After several centuries, Ur Draxa was destroyed and her creator/owner was killed, freeing Dokala at last. She returned to the Forest Ridge to see how her tribe had fared, but found that they had been deemed Renegades and driven out of the Forest Ridge and were now barely surviving in the foothills of the Ringing Mountains.
Dokala has setup in a nearby ruin and uses her psionics and ability to create/control undead to keep the stronger predators away from her people without tipping them off to her presence.
For their part, the Halfling tribe knows that there is a ruin nearby and that it is haunted by undead, but they have been lucky in that the undead seem to keep the fierce predators away from the tribe but never hassle them. They would be horrified to know that an undead former member of their tribe had been protecting them for so long.
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