Kaolina
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Kaolina (k-eo-lina) is a kathach (ka-tac) which is a part of the Ilanean Panetheon and an important part of the panetheon in Assumptaria where Kaolina is directly associated with the founding if the island. Her name originates from the ilanean word for music "Kaol" due to her association with playing the oak flute and music in general. The specific location of her home is unknown but it is known that it is somewhere in the center of Assumptaria due to the fading of her flute. It is rumoured that she lives in a tower. She is often depicted as being either a young red-headed child or a beautiful ginger woman.
Story
Kaolina was raised in the divine home of Eusk and Njordr and from a young age was taught several talents but excelled in music particulary the disciplines of tin flute playing and instrumental song writing. Her parents recognized this talent and boasted about their daughters abilities by having concerts in the Otherworld. Whilst having a concert for Foraois Kaolina had been nervous and began playing the wrong notes. Foraois was furious and banished still young Kaolina to a lonely tower in what would now be Assumptaria. Foraois had given Kaolina a different flute made of oak and commanded her to play a mating song called "Chukfidh an Erok" which is ilanean for "Spring Will Come" for the Vianna Stags every spring solstice. She has spent the rest of her days crying for her parents, playing songs and writing songs whilst trapped in her tower
Influence in founding Assumptaria
In 957 AD, a tribe of 15,000 ilaneans from Njordrlann and Lethia set sail eastward in search of the Otherworld. The druids of the tribe had told them that if they were to find where Kaolina was imprisoned they could ask her for her help in finding the Otherworld. The head druid had informed them to find where crying and sounds of flute playing could be heard. After travelling along the northern highway of islands and losing 2,000 men to natural causes or otherwise they eventually found Assumptaria. The ilaneans also interpreted the islands wet humid climate as a side effect of Kaolina's tears. They never did find where Kaolina was imprisoned. It is said that when the Assumptarians arrived that Kaolina was so depressed and lonely she had assumed no one would ever come for her so she never looked outside to see the civilization.
Controversy in the founding of Assumptaria story
Ilanphobics and atheists have critcized the story claiming that the rain interpreted as crying was just a matter of the climate and geography aswell that the noises purportedly made by Kaolina were also infected by the geography and the wind blowing through aforementioned geography