Kaide, The Drowned Light

== Description ==
Kaide is a Lightborn NPC found in New Kyrsa. Wearing a Soren outfit.
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Hm... You make a lot of noise. Are you here simply to disturb my meditation, surface dweller? 	 	 	
What are you? 	 	 	
A distinct lack of manners, though it's not like I'm surprised. I suppose my people do not often touch the Surface to make contact with your kind. I am Lightborn, child of Man and Celestial. 
Who are you? 	 	 	
[Give him your name] 	 	 	
Ah, a pleasure to meet you, (Player name). You surface dwellers do have such strange names. You can call me Kaide. It's been many centuries since I've spoken to one of your kind here, I assume you seek entrance to the Bed Chamber of Ethiron? 	 	 	
I'm not so certain I even know what that is. 	 	 	
Oh, you poor fool. You may not realize it yet, but you trespass on the territory of a sleeping God. This is the City of New Kyrsa, it holds the sleeping form of Ethiron deep within. I assume it is only now being rediscovered due to the discordant sounds of the Song projecting out from this place. 	 	 	
What's happening with the song? 	Who are you? 	How do you know all of this? 	Child of Man and Celstial?
Hmm... I am not sure how aware you are, surface dweller, but the magic you make use of is not some projection of your own strength. Your power lies within the Song. All you can conjure is a cheap imitation of the power held within the Song that Drowned Gods wield as their birthright. If Ethiron were to wake, as the projections seem to indicate, the world above would simply cease to be.	I once was Ruler of a place known as Constellia. A gleaming City of Light that you surface dwellers often referred to as 'The Guiding Star'. We knew it as the Celestials' Last Gift. It was left in the hands of my forebearers, and passed to me. Unknown to me, I was to be the last king. king. The Kyrsans, under Ethiron's will, found a way to invade and took me prisoner. Now your skies lay dark, unable to be navigated, and here I sit until eternity ends.	I have been alive far longer than any living member of your kind, save for some of your ... ah ... immortals. Our forebearers were once soldiers in the war to fight back the depths. But when the Celestials fled, so too did our morale - our will to fight. Those of my people that still reside in the skies above the surface merely wait in fear of their prophesized doom.	A hybrid, you might say. Our creators had hoped to bring our disparate people together and combine our strengths. Our bodies were enhanced by hybrid vigor; unyielding to age or to ailment. Our minds... Well, many of us ended up just as clueless and arrogant as the templates we were created from. There are few of us now, as we cannot bear our own kin
 	 	 	*He rolls his eyes.* What a web they've spun around you. We thought they were gods too, once. But perceptions change quickly when they alone are the sole architects of your suffering.
 	 	 	Do you have anything that could help me?
 	 	 	Hmm... If you should return to the Surface, let me impart you with a tidbit of knowledge. The Celestials were a crafty sort, and would hide many of their relics away in the Voidsea to obscure their whereabouts. The Voidsea being what it is, of course, some of their reliquaries may have now drifted between the Heavens and the Surface. If you should find one... Use my blessing to take what you will from it. Note that they're likely still well-defended, however.
He was the king of a city named "Constellia", which was invaded by the Kyrsans resulting in him becoming a prisoner of the Second Layer and being trapped in the outskirts of New Kyrsa, meditating. 
He mentions that the limited power of the Song in the hands of mortals is nothing compared to what a Drowned God could do with the Song, having significantly smaller limits.
He also speaks about the lost war between Lightborns and Celestials against the Drowned gods, explaining pieces of lore, like the Celestials fleeing from the war, this causing the Lightborns to lose motivation to fight and simply giving up.
The "immortals" that Kaide mentions in his dialogue are presumably the Deepwoken. His hesitation when he says this can make someone infer that the word or topic of "Deepwoken" is a sacred or touchy subject. It also could mean that the player character and other people in Lumen cannot comprehend the concept of a Deepwoken.
Category:NPCs
Category:Lore
Category:Layer 2
Category:Floor 2