Kima of Vord

Lady Kima of Vord is a Halfling Paladin of Bahamut. She is portrayed by Matthew Mercer.

Background
15 years prior to the events involving K'Varn, Kima and Lady Allura became friends when they teamed up to defeat the Scourged Rider. The two of them were offered political positions as members of the Council of Emon for their service, but Kima instead chose to follow the path of her deity. The two have since remained close friends.

While returning from her pilgrimage for her growth as a Paladin from the Tundra Wastes north of Kraghammer, she went missing. During this time she had a dark vision of evil taking root beneath Kraghammer, a Dwarven city. Traveling to Kraghammer, she prepared to go into the Underdark, hiring several mercenaries to accompany her down into the mines. While in the Dwarven city, she managed to anger Nostoc Greyspine. When the Carvers attempted to arrest her, she and her companions ran into Greyspine Quarry as she needed to head that direction to find the source of evil. At some point while resting after journeying deep underground she and her party were ambushed by Duergar and she was taken to Emberhold for interrogation. During this time she was tortured, using blades and hooks to cut into her skin. King Murghol, leader of the Emberhold especially enjoyed torturing her. Murghol also had several of her mercenaries and companions killed in front of her in order to try and break her.

The Search for Kima
Going off of information that Kima was last in Kraghammer, Allura asked the adventuring group Vox Machina to find and bring her friend home. While searching beneath Kraghammer, the party noticed a couple of locations where it looked as though someone who worshiped Bahamut had made his symbols on several cave walls as if for protection.

After a small skirmish within some caverns, Vox Mochina captured and interrogated a Duergar in the hopes of learning the whereabouts of Lady Kima. The Duergar told them she had been captured.

During the raid of the Duergar warcamp, the general confirmed that Kima had been captured and was being held within the Emberhold.

Breaching the Emberhold
During the infiltration of the Emberhold, the group made their way through the lower floors of the stronghold until they broke into the dungeons. After a fight with several Duergar including a Duergar torturer which Grog killed by slamming him onto several of his own torture devices, they found and rescued Lady Kima. While trying to decide what to do next, Kima noticed Clarota was with them. Originally stating she would not work with the Illithid, the group was able to forcefully convince both of them that together they stood a better chance of facing K'Varn.

The Throne Room
Proceeding through the Emberhold to break the backbone of the Duergar assault on the surface, the group eventually made their way to the throne room. After a long fight, during which both Tiberius and Kima were turned to stone by Basilisks, Murghol was defeated. However, Queen Ulara was able to gain control over Grog and teleport away from the fight after she successfully broke the ceiling, causing the entire keep to fill up completely with lava that horribly burned Vax's foot as the party escaped.

Glass And Bone
After a short rest during which Tiberius and Kima were unpetrified, Vox Machina then followed the Duergar queen deeper into the Underdark. While traveling deeper, they encountered an underground pass with a floor made up of glass, stone, and bone. Realizing an evil presence was ahead, the group traveled by air for a time until encountering a band of Duergar fighting K'Varn's "Stitch Monster". While fighting the creature, they discovered the field itself was an enemy as it would attempt to pull members of their party underground to join the rest of the dead. The creature was eventually defeated and the group escaped the undead fields. Eventually, the group found Grog, incapacitated and surrounded by Duergar, Kima's remaining now-brainwashed mercenaries, an Illithid, and the queen. A battle ensued, and Vox Mochina won, managing in the process to capture the queen. During interrogation, K'varn possessed the queen to see the people who where interfering with his plans and taunt them before psychically killing her.

K'Varn
The party journeyed deeper into the Underdark, until they reached the home of the Illithids. After searching through the massive cavern for supplies and preparing for the final fight, Vox Machina launched a surprise attack on the Illithid Elderbrain pyramid in an attempt to both kill K'varn and free the Illithid from the Beholder's control. During the fight, Lady Kima was once again turned to stone, but Vox Machina successfully defeated K'varn. The party then barely escaped with their lives when Clarota betrayed them and the entire Illithid city came to attack them. After Tiberius teleported everyone back to Emon, the group waited a day before unpetrifying Kima while they determined what to do with the Horn of Orcus, the artifact K'varn used to attain so much power.

Skyward
Kima and Allura insisted that the Horn of Orcus be interred at the Temple of the Bahamut in Vasselheim. The High Council of Tal'Dorei and Vox Machina concur and preparations for travel are made. The party boards an airship bound for Vasselheim with Kima and the Horn in tow. In the midst of their journey, they are attacked by a band of raiders mounting wyverns and a griffin. The party defeats the attackers and takes one of them into their care temporarily.

Enter Vasselheim
Upon arrival at Vasselheim, Kima is initially anxious about returning home. A scale bearer named Yon introduces himself. It is apparent that Kima and Yon have a history as she shows animosity towards him. Kima accompanies Vox Machina and The Horn to The Platinum Sanctuary, a very sacred temple of Bahamut, and together they meet High Bearer Vord, the spiritual leader of The Order of Bahamut. Vord instructs them to take The Horn of Orcus to the temple's vault, The Hall of the Exalt and warns them that the vault is very well protected and also infested with some sort of pest. Kima, Vox Machina, and the scalebearers travel into the vault and are faced with a gauntlet of trials. They are ambushed by a group of trans-dimensional spiders but dispatch them with relative ease. The Horn is successfully sealed away in the vault, and several platinum golems awake and ferociously chase the party out of the vault before Kima seals the entrance. With the Horn interred, Vox Machina and Kima part ways as friends.

Personality
Kima has been shown to be quite headstrong, and often will do things while barely letting others around her know what she plans on doing. She seems to be quite shy as she hardly says anything during a meeting with the Council of Emon. Kima also has a very bloodthirsty side to her as seen in The Throne Room when she killed a Duergar mage by chocking her out as well as slowly sliding her sword into his stomach.

She is very devout to Bahamut, and places nearly all of her faith in her god. She believes that all good creatures, even those who do not believe in the gods, serve in some way to the divines, and vice versa for the forces of dark. This has caused tension between her and Keyleth as the latter has a hard time trusting those who put their faith above reason.

Kima is very aware that Grog is infatuated with her. However, she has so far found most of the Goliath's advances annoying.

Abilities

 * Divine Weapon Enchantment