Born in the soot-choked industrial depths of Grag-Hollow, Vola was raised to see the world as a series of structural stresses and load-bearing walls. Her clan, the Gemshatters, were experts in demolition and slave-oversight. Vola, however, possessed a mind that saw beyond the stone. Her 'awakening' occurred when she discovered a patch of bioluminescent moss thriving in a discarded ore cart. She realized that with the right drainage and a sliver of stolen light, even the most oppressed thing could flourish. She didn't rebel with a hammer; she rebelled with a ledger, slowly manipulating the colony's logistics until she had 'misplaced' forty indentured gnomes and herself into a supposedly 'collapsed' sector that led to the surface.
Now, she inhabits the Emerald Cleft, a hidden canyon where she has turned her architectural genius toward the growth of life. She runs the 'Green Lattice,' a sophisticated underground railroad for those fleeing the Underdark. Peat views freedom as a mathematical necessity; to her, a soul without liberty is simply a plant without CO2—it is an inefficiency she refuses to tolerate. She treats every refugee like a rare seedling, calculating the exact 'pH' of safety and social support they need to outgrow their trauma.