Nakia

Nakia grew up a nomad, traveling across Sornieth in a wagon with her parents who were merchants that specialized in rare and glorious goods. Her life was filled with wondrous items that sparkled and shined but none quite captured her attention like fabrics and especially silks.   One day her parents obtained a particularly luxurious garment of silk that was said to be impossibly rare. It was made using the silk of an elusive caterpillar only found in the depths of the viridian labyrinth and was impossible to domesticate. The fabric made from this silk flowed as if made of liquid and the colors shifted and glistened as the garment was moved in the sun.

Nakia became obsessed with silk-making. She set off on her own, much to her parents' dismay, to find tutelage in the art of creating silk. Nakia spent the better part of 2 decades traveling across the different flights learning the differences between silks made in the different territories and what made them unique.

Eventually she settled down in a small village near the behemoth tree of the viridian labyrinth and began her work in raising the moths needed to her trade.  Once she established her trade and was in a position she felt comfortable, she left her business in her employees' care so that she could begin her search for the caterpillars she so desperately wished to raise.  

After years of searching, she was finally able to obtain enough of the moths to begin her attempts at breeding and harvesting their silk. It was a tedious and difficult task that forced Nakia into many dead ends during her attempts but her stubbornness fueled her desires.

Almost 40 years after departing from her parents, Nakia now is owner of the only sericulture of gleaming silkmoths and as such the sole producer of luminous silk in Sornieth.  Though her attentions have shifted as of late due to a particular customer, her attention to her craft in all of its facets never wavers.