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Kaza is Liaforan[[Liafor]]an and presumably has dark brown skin and eyes. Her age is unclear, although she mentions being past her middle years and "feeling her age". She has been Soulcasting things into smoke since her youth, and shows significant physical disfigurement from being a [[savant]]; parts of her body, including her face, are gradually turning into smoke. The areas of her body that are disintegrating are translucent or even missing, and dark smoke emanates from them. She wears a hooded robe and black gloves to conceal her condition.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}

She has an independent streak and has long felt controlled by the royal family; she makes her trip to [[Akinah]] in defiance of them and resents the way that they essentially imprisoned her to maintain control of the Soulcaster. She makes it clear to [[Vazrmeb|Captain Vazrmeb]] that she is helping him by choice, and that she is a person and not a thing to be used. Before dying, she chooses to transform herself into smoke as a final assertion of her control over her own destiny.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}

Kaza is intimately familiar with the use of a Soulcaster [[fabrial]] that can produce smoke. The Soulcaster has three large gemstones (presumably [[polestone#Smokestone|smokestones]]){{book ref|sa1|part=ars}} and is worn on her hand. She notes that her Soulcaster is the type that only has one "mode"; she can only Soulcast objects into smoke and she cannot return previously Soulcast objects to their original state. She began using the Soulcaster as a youth and continued using it throughout her life, becoming a [[savant]]. She does not wear the Soulcaster all the time, but she keeps it in a pouch on her person. She feels contentment when she puts it on.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}

Kaza was a cousin of the Liaforan[[Liafor]]an prince. As a girl, she enjoyed collecting [[cremling]]s and aspired to be a naturalist. However, she was assigned to use a royal Soulcaster, which was "always to be kept in the royal family". She grew extremely attached to the Soulcaster over the years and used it throughout her adulthood, to the point of becoming a Soulcasting [[savant]] as she aged. She came to think of the Soulcaster as belonging to her alone. Because of the value of the Soulcaster, she lived under lock and key, although she was provided whatever comforts she desired; the royal family hoped to pacify her, since she could have easily used the Soulcaster to escape confinement. She grew increasingly bitter that she was treated as a tool, rather than a person.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}