The Church of Kadiya

Born of Taliena and Austinian, Kadiya shared her mother's hatred of bloodshed and was a peacemaker even as a child. She would stand over the innocent victims of savagery and weep, even burying the dead herself, and she reached out to empires before their wars began to teach them the blessings of peace.

Her followers set battle aside except in self-defense or the vanquishing of evil. She came and went with little notice, and was most often seen at the sites of great battles, weeping for the lost.

The Goddess of Peace died at the start of a war. She was sent with Raije and Devion to end Malachive at his frozen camp on Icewall. When Malachive set the Abhorrants upon them, Deathmeere tore at the wings of her angel Araadul, and Kadiya stood against him. He beat her bloody and nearly crushed her throat, but she rose and struck him with a fury no one had ever seen from her, hurling him from the field. As she lay exhausted beside her broken angel, Devion knelt, praised her courage, stroked her hair, and broke her neck. He fled to the heavens boasting that he had started the greatest war that ever existed, and Raije carried her body home to Austinian. Her death began the God War.