Confident and intense with a tendency to demand the best from everywhere around her she fit the role of the Chelish diva very well.
Caepia was never as rich or as famous as she would pretend to be. She would frequently reference an entirely fictitious noble ancestry. In fact, she is the cherished only daughter of a seamstress and a long-departed father. The daughter of a servant she spent much of her childhood interacting with halflings. One of the most important figures in her life was a halfling cleaning woman who would let her into the servant's entrance at the opera house. There the 12-year-old Caepia found the transporting power of music and resolved to become a singer. One day that kindly servant was simply gone. Caepia was devastating, assuming something horrible had happened to her, but the other halflings whispered the truth to her, the Bellflower Network had spirited her away.
From that time Caepia has struggled with competing visions of her nation and her place within it.
Resentment against the slavery and stratification that defined her early life experience and a deep love of the rich and beautiful cultural output that helps to define for her what life is really about.
Lacking the funds or breeding for proper singing lessons her career as a singer was based on wit, bluff, and manipulation as much as any blinding natural talent, but it served to get her touring through smaller cities in Cheliax. One or two at a time halflings in the places she played would disappear.
