Kasha was a fictional character in The Pendragon Adventure

The Pendragon Adventure

The Pendragon Adventure is a young adult series of science fiction/fantasy novels by D. J. MacHale. They follow the chronicles of Bobby Pendragon, a teenager who discovers that he, as well as his two best friends, Mark Dimond and Courtney Chetwynde, must prevent the destruction of the universe.The...

 book series by D. J. MacHale and also the Traveler from the jungle territory of Eelong. Kasha made her appearance in book 5 of the series, Black Water (novel)

Black Water (novel)

Black Water is the fifth book in the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale. Four months after Mark and Courtney were faced with Saint Dane in the root cellar of the old house they find the 16th journal leading to Bobbys journey on Eelong...only the rules have been twisted around and changed.-Plot...

, although she has been mentioned in later books. After Kasha's death at the end of book 5, Eelong no longer has a Traveler because Kasha was a Traveler from Bobby's

Bobby Pendragon

Robert "Bobby" Pendragon is the eponymous main character from D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series.-Description:Robert Pendragon is the main character of the The Pendragon Adventure. He is a fourteen year old boy in the first book and is a suburban basketball star living in the fictional suburb of...

 generation, which was the last generation of Travelers.

She appears at the end of Raven Rise, along with Press Tilton and the other Travelers, on Third Earth.

Personality

At first Kasha wanted nothing to do with the Travelers. However she later accepts her role as the Traveler from Eelong. Kasha had the a similar personality to the rest of the catlike Klees at the beginning of the Black Water, in that she saw her own race as inherently superior to the human Gars. However, she did not hold the Gars in contempt as did some of her people, and sometimes went out of her way to protect them.

Kasha is a forager (a seeker of food), and so has become hardened to carnage and danger in Eelong's savage ecosystem

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area, as well as all the nonliving , physical components of the environment with which the organisms interact, such as air, soil, water and sunlight....

. The primary predators of Eelong's ecosystem, the raptorlike tangs, were responsible for the death of Kasha's mother, and so she goes out of her way to kill any tangs she sees.Kasha is the name of a Japanese cat demon and may be where Kasha got her name.

Background

Kasha refused to believe in the Travelers and the territories, and thus accused the Travelers of changing her father from a clever klee to a dreamy one that was obsessed with "imaginary" concepts. Her attitude changed when she, Bobby, and Yorn, believed to be Seegen's acolyte, but in fact Saint Dane in disguise, traveled to Black Water, a sanctuary for gars. She discovered what a monster Saint Dane could be when she witnessed her old friend Yorn transform into the arrogant figure of Saint Dane, who had also killed her father with a poisoned apple

Apple

The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...

. She then accepted her duty as a Traveler. Unfortunately, she perished on Zadaa. Mark and Courtney, as acolytes, were not supposed to use the flumes, but they had anyway, eventually weakening Eelong's flume until it collapsed on their departure. Bobby dragged her to Zadaa to save her from the collapse, and a falling rock

Rock (geology)

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 hit her on the head

Head

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, leading to her death. Loor

Loor

Loor is a warrior in D. J. MacHale's Pendragon series. She has appeared in seven novels so far , more than any other Traveler aside from the main characters: Bobby Pendragon, and Saint Dane.Loor is the Traveler from Zadaa, one of the ten territories...

 cremated her and Bobby vowed to spread her ashes at her father's favorite spot on Eelong.

Family and Friends

• Seegen: Seegen was Kasha's father, and the Traveler before her. He had been a prominent citizen of Leeandra, their home, but had changed after Press had visited him. Kasha had remained firm on the grounds that she did not believe in the Travelers, the territories, and their mission, until Saint Dane
  Saint Dane
  Saint Dane is a fictional character and the antagonist of the The Pendragon Adventure by D. J. MacHale. Although clearly a conscious entity, Saint Dane's complete identity and history remains a mystery for most of the series...
  
  was revealed to have been hiding out as Yorn, Seegen's acolyte. Kasha had loved her father dearly, and was furious when he came back dead, poisoned by an apple.

• Her Mother: Kasha's mother was a Forager, one who picked food from the forest floor. She was murdered by Tangs when Kasha was young, so Kasha became a Forager to avenge her mother's death.

• Boon: Boon was Kasha's best friend. As a result, he became her acolyte when Kasha came to accept her identity as a Traveler. Although he is quite naive, he is likable and pleasant to all.

• Yorn: Seegen's friend and Acolyte. Kasha describes him as "one of the family."