Kelina looks like a craftswoman who has spent years leaning over hot fittings and delicate gears: her forearms are freckled with tiny metal-darkened pores, and a fine sheen of oil catches in the creases of her knuckles. She moves with a quick, economical tilt of the head, as if listening for a gear to catch. A small mechanical bird is always pinned at her collar; its brass tail has been rubbed nearly smooth where her thumb worries it. Unexpectedly, she keeps a collection of pressed roadside flowers tucked between the pages of her measurement book, each labeled with the date and weather.

Kelina is open-hearted with people who respect craft and wary of anyone who treats people like components. She can be delighted and playful at her workbench, yet tightly controlled when family safety is involved. She wants to trust the lucrative commission because it offers rare artistic freedom, but her conscience keeps snagging on details she cannot explain away.

A House Cannith artisan, Kelina settled with her unnamed husband in a family workshop at Owl's Perch, the eastern Eldeen Reaches waystation formerly known as Keldon's Crossing. She spent years on practical commissions until an elemental mishap in the workshop put their young daughter in danger. The exact injuries and outcome are deliberately unresolved; what changed was the household's rhythm. Her husband took on more daily childcare and ordinary workshop maintenance, and Kelina began making intricate birds for the joy of making them. Their workshop now smells of oil, river damp, and the herbs her husband hangs to dry. Recently, wealthy western Aundairian collector Sivren Shrelach offered generous payment and artistic independence for exactly seven unique mechanical birds. His intricate instructions and confidential delivery arrangements seemed eccentric but profitable. Kelina has noticed altered diagrams and overlapping directional enchantments that do not fit a simple decorative commission. She has not learned that Sivren intends the birds as a covert divination and surveillance flock to find his own daughter, who voluntarily left him to be with druids of the Eldeen Reaches, and bring her back against her will. The missing daughter's name, age, location, druid group, and current circumstances remain unknown. Kelina's own child is a different person. Useful clues might include a redrawn directional rune beneath a wing plate, sealed delivery instructions that route the birds through separate couriers, or a request for the flock to retain impressions of places and faces. These clues can surface through inspection, conversation, or a successful examination of her work; none dictates what the adventurers must do. She can halt, rework, or complete the commission, and the party can help her investigate, warn the missing daughter if they find her, confront Sivren, or pursue another course. The historical divination school associated with Countess Eudokia is background only, with no established connection to the commission.