KIA HESA

  Kia Hesa was born in Egypt early in the Far Isles period, around the first
century.
  She and her mother were followers of the old religion and worshiped the 
God Annubis,the jackal headed God of death. 
  Once the Romans arrived and took over the region they attempted to convert 
the population. They tried to stamp out 'paganism' by burning Kia's mother.
Kia ran away with the four jackals from the cult of Annubis. For several years
she and a succession of dogs and puppies wandered around Africa having various 
adventures until she finally crossed into Europe.
  She made her way in life by acting as 'undertaker' for people. She never 
kills people in fact she's one of the few honest people in the Grimwood. 
  For a while she lived in the Viscountessess castle where a very suspicious
Lady of the Manor kept an eye on her and let her live in the stables. 
  After some time she met the 'good' people of Tintagel who invited her to
join them as they were building a lighthouse and required a keeper. Kia has
always been fond of towers and took to the 'pharos' at once. The dogs live on
the first floor.
   Kia lights the light whenever the people of Tintagel tell her to - which
strangely isn't always a great help to shipping. She also sends out the dogs
with little warning lights around their necks along the cliff top. There still
seem to be an awful lot of wrecks and a lot of work for Kia to do with drowned 
sailors.[Some of them occasionally seem to have survived the water but died
of accidents on shore.]
  Living in a tower is having an effect on Kia, she's becoming stranger and
more shamanic by the day. She's even invented 'Finger Pharoahs' to tell stories
with !!!!!
  However, with the return of Sir Tristram to Tintagel she has been told to
 light the fire only on the tower and all the time. This has resulted in 
far fewer ship wrecks and not nearly so many dead people to bury.
 She has also become Black Cat Herald to the new Queen Ceris.