Her love of evil was surpassed only by her love of power; serving Nibenay provided her with plenty of power and the opportunity to use it for evil. She reveled in physical power, commanding large numbers of lesser templars and slaves. She also reveled in priestly power, using all of the energy that Nibenay provided with wild abandon. She thought her course in life was set, but then everything changed. A minor misunderstanding (at least from Caletta's point of view) led to a major mistake as far as the sorcererking was concerned. Caletta's slaves brought back only a dozen agafari trees from the Crescent Forest instead of the score Nibenay had demanded. For their mistake, the entire slave work detail was slain. Calette, as the templar overseer in charge of the detail, suffered a worse fate. She was stripped of her templar powers and station, then assigned to another work detail bound for the forest. She was made a slave. Caletta learned to hate the sorcerer-king and her sister templars over the two years she spent as a slave. Every day she toiled in the forest, cutting down trees and hauling wood. Every night she returned to the city-state where a crowded slave pen and a barely life-sustaining meal waited for her. She contemplated ways to get back at them all, but every dream ended when the gate on the pen slammed shut behind her. One day while laboring in the forest, an opportunity for escape presented itself. Caletta took it greedily. Her chance to leave slavery behind came when a thri-kreen hunting pack appeared in the forest. The mantis warriors decided to prey upon the slaves and their templar guards. In the heat of battle, Caletta ran. The only thing she took with her (besides the clothes on her back) was a gythka from a fallen thri-kreen. She has used the polearm with the wicked blades as her personal weapon ever since, in tribute to the thri-kreen who inadvertently helped her gain freedom. In the wilderness, the combat training she received in her first years as a templar came back to serve her. Without clerical magic to aid her, she had to rely on her own combat skills to protect her. While survival was her major concern, Caletta allowed the dreams of revenge against Nibenay and his templars to once again occupy her thoughts. She would later find realization of these dreams-at least in some small part – as a member of Sortar's Army.
Caletta's one-time status as a templar made it hard for
her to find a place outside of the city-states, but she knew
that the only place for her within the walls of civilization
was in the slave pens – or worse. When she thought all
of her options were used up, Caletta met Sortar's tribe.
It was by the grace of the powerful warlord that Caletta
found acceptance in the tribe. Now the two are lovers, at
least in the physical sense, though many say she is simply
using Sortar's feelings to achieve her own ends. To some
extent that is true, but she also feels a special bond to
the man that goes beyond her personal schemes – and
that bothers her.