Sora was born in Sharn's Overlook district, where her mother worked as a glassblower creating luminous psionic focuses for the dragonmarked houses. The young Kalashtar spent her childhood watching liquid crystal become solid beauty—a meditation that would define her philosophy. When her mother died protecting her from a Dreaming Dark assassin, ten-year-old Sora fled to the mountains of Adar with nothing but her mother's final gift: a longsword forged from ghost-glass, a material that exists partially in Tel'laranthi, the Sea of Dreams.
In the high monasteries, she found teachers who recognized that her bond with her Quori spirit Haka was unusually harmonious. Where most Kalashtar experience their dual nature as dialogue, Sora and Haka moved as one—two musicians playing the same note. She took up the Way of the Kensei not to master violence, but to perfect stillness. Her blade became her meditation, each kata a prayer that smoothed the barrier between flesh and dream. After twenty years, she achieved what her masters called 'the glass moment'—a state where her strikes could cut nightmares themselves, severing psychic bonds and dispersing hostile dream-entities before they could fully manifest.
Now she has descended from Adar, driven by recurring visions of her mother's killer—a quori-possessed changeling who leaves a trail of shattered minds across Khorvaire. Sora does not seek revenge; she seeks to cut the threads binding the Dreaming Dark to the waking world, one perfect strike at a time. She carries her ghost-glass blade like a glassblower carries their breath: with reverence, precision, and the understanding that beauty and lethality are inseparable.