Lore:Cadwell

, also known as Cadwell the Betrayer, Hero of Cyrod, The Villain of Elsweyr, and Champion of the Third Nedic Massacre'''. In life, he was a cruel, power-hungry man who claimed the horrors of Coldharbour pale in comparison to his heinous deeds.  He helped    and his kra'jun seal the dragons away in the  , only to betray him in an attempt to take the power sealed away in  . He died at a last stand in the Shadow Dance Temple during the Merethic Era. According to Cadwell the Soul Shriven his head was "quite unceremoniously" separated from his body via decapitation.  His remains were scattered across the land and his name wiped from all records.  
Cadwell the Soul Shriven
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Upon death, his soul was sent to Coldharbour, where he ended up as a soul shriven. Being an insane man in life before arriving in Coldharbour is credited as being the reason for him not ending up a feral soul shriven.  Cadwell the Soul Shriven's personality is the opposite of the one he had in life and even Cadwell was unsure of why that is. He theorized it had to do with either the transition to life to death, becoming a soul shriven, or his many years spent in Coldharbour. 

In his many years living in Coldharbour, Cadwell has since discovered all the nooks, crannies, secret paths, and hidden locations the realm has to offer. His extensive knowledge of Coldharbour, along with his unique ability with portals, makes him nigh impossible to hold captive, and the   gave up on trying to keep him in chains long ago. During the  , he assisted the   and   in escaping from the   and once again helping them rescue   from the  , perhaps even coming back with them to the Harborage in Tamriel. Throughout the joint   and   coalition's invasion of Coldharbour, Cadwell assisted in guiding rescued persons back to the  . He also helped   destroy the Great Shackle and joined in on  's confrontation against Molag Bal in the  . Following Molag Bal's defeat, Cadwell became a servant of Meridia and granted the Vestige the opportunity to visit the territories of the   they weren't a part of. 

During the rage of Dragons in  ,  's chief necromancer Zumog Phoom resurrected the original body of Cadwell to serve as his familiar and confidant, although initially only as a floating head. This caused the identity of Cadwell to be temporarily split between his two incarnations, Cadwell the Soul Shriven and Cadwell the Betrayer. Once his mortal body was fully restored and the energy from the Vestige of Cadwell was siphoned into it, Cadwell the Betrayer manifested fully and remained as the only Cadwell. Only after Cadwell the Betrayer was slain, Cadwell the Soul Shriven managed to reform from  . 

Cadwell is able open up portals to anywhere he was needed or he wanted to go.   When Cadwell the Betrayer realigned the moons he had to bind himself to the Lunar Lattice.   It was theorized by Khamira that Cadwell got this unique ability from this connection to the Lunar Lattice.    This theory was later proven to be correct, as Khamira being bound to the Lattice like Cadwell was able to do it herself.  Cadwell was able to master the ability of portal creation after thousands of years of existence within Coldharbour. Something Kamira herself said she might need in order to master it herself.  

Notes
Prior to the expansion of his background in the ESO Elsweyr chapter, Cadwell was originally said to have been an   citizen from the town of   in his previous life, executed by the agents of  , but exactly how this happened was never expanded upon. 

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See Also
For game-specific information, see the Cadwell the Soulshriven ESO and Legends articles. For the Cadwell the Betrayer articles, see the ESO and Legends articles.

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