Ka'aona Kailikea (ka aˈona kaˈiliˌkea)

The mythic hero Ka'aona Kailikea is known to have been a real person, who lived and died in the early Fourth Age.
Her formal title, Nīʻū Owowū, translates directly as 'wind-talker', but is believed to more accurately describe what would now be called witchcraft. She was one of the few people able to do magic during the Fourth Age, and was considered semi-divine during her lifetime.
Numerous fantastic feats have been attributed to her, the most significant of which is her defeat of the monstrous Pyawtbi, saving the Kuwekuli sea and surrounding islands from destruction.
Kailikea is attributed with creating the kana'ōnah in order to protect her people from a deadly curse, placed on them by a vengeful demigod, which killed all firstborn sons. By turning herself and her people into birds, and by making all their chicks female, she sidestepped the curse twice, breaking it and turning it back on the caster, destroying them. It is known that she gave her name to the new species, but not what kana'ōnah called themselves before her intervention.
The songbirds of the islands around the Kuwekuli sea are alleged to be descended from the feathers of a single magical bird which she accidentally killed while hunting. Kailikea plucked the bird while singing a spell that would carry its feathers to all the the islands and turn them into living birds.
She was the chief of a city built on the back of a giant sky turtle, and the animals remain sacred to her even now. It is said that she did not die, but flew herself and her city to the moons, and that the smaller of the three is her turtle's shell.

Artifacts

Objects that were handled and created by her have been validated as having been made during the early Fourth Age and bear the marks of having channelled enormous magical power. Kailikea's comb and weaving weights are on display in the Kono'i Commonwealth's national museum.
The national museums of the Ohoulian Republic, the Republic of Nikia, and Mauhia, as well as several private collectors, claim to posess pieces of her eggshell. Since Kailikea was not born a kana'ōnah, it must be assumed that these are the shells of her children.

Divine Classification

Mythic hero

Species

Kana'ōnah

Ethnicity

Paukii'wae

Realm

Aeho'ai

Sex

Female

Presentation

Female

Eyes

Blue

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Black/brown