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Kaden (known as The Mouse Who Thunders to Slyrak)

Princess of Nothing
Kaden makes his first appearance as a painting in a small run-down inn at Hauptstadt, hung on the wall beside the landing of the inn's only staircase. Here, Davion and Mirana stop for a while to look at Kaden's portrait, before the former introduces him to Mirana as one of the greatest Dragon Knights of all time. He reminisces the time when he met Kaden as a young squire who once filled up his cup for him, adding that Kaden himself knew Davion's potential. In an uninterested and sarcastic tone, Mirana agrees with him. Davion further introduces Kaden, saying that he is the only Dragon Knight who has killed all eight types of Dragons. With the same tone, Mirana asks him about the number of dragon types that he has killed, to which Davion responds that he has killed only five. Just as he finished his answer, he sees Mirana leaving for the inn's rooms while giving him an insincere encouragement.

A brief flashback in Episode 4 reveals that, after nearly twenty years, Kaden finally found the lair of Slyrak, but it was empty. He did find his trail through the earth and followed it until he found himself inside a mountain outside of Barrowhaven. Inside the cave where Slyrak and the possessed Uldorak fought each other, he did not find even a trace of his nemesis, but only the blighted corpses of Uldorak and Frühling, as well as Davion's dragon fang necklace.

Neverwhere Land
In a frozen wilderness, a lone ember wyrmling blindly unleashes its fire breath with no target in sight. Amidst the clearing smoke and steam is Kaden, fully clad in dragon-forged armor and wielding his legendary blade. The dragon charges towards him as he assumes a wide stance, before activating the inherent gravitational power in his weapon. The increased mass reverberates beyond the blade and into its surroundings, unleashing a small shockwave and shattering the snow-glazed earth itself. With this strength in hand Kaden strikes down the ember wyrmling. The sheer impact releases a massive wave of force that rattles the surrounding forest.

Kaden then treks himself back to a Dragon Knight redoubt at the top of a mountain while hauling the ember wyrmling's bloody corpse through the snow with his bare hands.

The Monster at the End of This Book
Following his safari in the cold wilderness, Kaden returned to the Dragon Knight redoubt to harvest the ember wyrmling's corpse. Unbeknownst to him, Davion and Mirana have already entered the redoubt before him for a pit stop in their journey to the Invoker's Tower and Dragon Hold.

Kaden enters the redoubt through its front gate. Oblivious to his arrival, Davion and Mirana are alerted to an unknown intruder when they hear the same gate that they went through open. Arming himself with his trusty bracer blade, he rushes to the entrance and is surprised to find Kaden. He remarks the dead ember wyrmling that Kaden is carrying on his shoulder, surprised about the fact that he found the dragon in the cold. Kaden replies that the ember dragons and luminous dragons have been acting strange lately, and that they were much easier to hunt than kill.

Noticing the way he casually lifts the dragon on his shoulder, Mirana refutes what he said about the dragons being harder to kill. Kaden presents his dragon-forged armor to the lady and briefly educates her on the power of a dragon as it ages, noting that older dragons are much more powerful. While inspecting his gauntlets, he states that they are forged from an adult earth dragon, allowing him to use its tectonic strength. Davion is surprised about the implication of his adult dragon armor, saying that killing an adult dragon would require half of the order's manpower. Kaden scoffs, saying that only he was involved in its death.

The two Heroes follow Kaden to the redoubt's abbatoir where he prepares the ember wyrmling for butchering, placing it on a butcher block and hanging it by the head with a metal chain. Davion says that he did not expect to see anyone in the redoubt and surmises that he has heard from his squire Bram, whom he dispatched to Dragon Hold. Not knowing what he's talking about, Kaden asks him from where he was sent. Davion replies, saying that they came from Barrowhaven to clear an earth wyrmling nest. He also adds that he might have found an eldwurm in the nest. Kaden clarifies his last statement by asking if he actually found it or thought that he found one, before starting the butchering process by cutting the ember wyrmling's scales. With a bit of uncertainty in his voice, Davion answers that he didn't find the eldwurm and they glance back at each other with worried looks.

Even without looking at them, Kaden senses Mirana's body language and points it out, observing that she doesn't agree with what Davion said. She asks him to come again and Kaden further explains his observation, saying that he is familiar with the look she gave to Davion. As he cuts up the wyrmling, he reveals that she was having sympathy for the dead wyrmling. He tells her not to by explaining the ember dragon's true nature as a vicious animal that can kill a man in the wild by delivering an exquisitely painful bite that melts flesh and heats the blood in one's veins. Tension builds up in Davion's mind as Kaden continues explaining and cutting up the ember wyrmling. He then concludes that although a Dragon Knight honors the dragons that they slay, they must never forget that they are killing machines. The sight of the dragon's remains being butchered is too much for Davion to handle due to his inner nature, and he excuses himself out of the room to check on Marci. As the two Heroes leave the room, Kaden glances at them with a hint of suspicion.

Although it happened off-screen, Kaden might have successfully butchered the ember dragon. From its remains, he yielded a pouch full of dragon scale tips for arrows and some delicious dragon meat. It's implied that he prepared and cooked the meat into a scrumptious wyrm filet dish.

In one of the redoubt's messes; Davion, Mirana, Marci, and Kaden are having lunch. Everyone but Davion is eating, which prompts Kaden to ask if he's uncomfortable with the food or them. Mirana answers for him by saying that they had just been through a difficult trip up the mountain on their way here. Kaden puts down his cup and tosses her a pouch of dragon scale arrowheads to aid their trip on the way down the mountain. She thanks him for the gift and socializes with him, asking if he has some greater purpose here besides hunting wyrmlings. Kaden replies that his hunt is meant to settle his dragon debt. Intrigued, Mirana asks him about this "dragon debt" that he has, and assumes that he has a literal debt with dragons. Kaden corrects her, saying that his debt is meant for men.

He recounts the time when he and twenty-nine other Dragon Knights were dispatched to the city of Leathsham to deal with the wyrmling sightings around the city, almost twenty years ago. The knights discussed their approach and concluded that the wyrmling sightings may imply the presence of an adult dragon, deciding not to risk their lives for a potential threat that could not be dealt with their insufficient numbers. Outside the city, the knights had their R&R. Kaden updated his journal with his worries over a girl, while his captain and a random knight teased him about it. All of a sudden, a flame nova briefly consumed the night sky. A streak of bright fire quickly followed, and the entire city of Leathsham was in flames. Kaden's worries over girls was overtaken by valor and discipline as he and the rest of the knights made haste to Leathsham's defense.

Searching for the source of the attack, they didn't find the origin until they saw a massive figure within the city's flames. They were shocked at the size of this anomaly, and Kaden recalls how he could not comprehend the impossible size of this ember dragon as none of the knights had never seen an eldwurm before, let alone understand how it was able to move with its huge proportions. Its maw exhaled fire upon them, but Kaden's captain promptly blocked the inferno with his shield's barrier ability, protecting his crew from the flame. It exhaled another round of fire that was much more powerful, and the barrier finally broke under the sheer potency of the flame. The knights' protection was compromised as a wave of fire utterly incinerated them, save for Kaden who was somehow safe from it. Spared from the eldwurm's might, Kaden was forced to watch helplessly as his comrades died with the most excruciating agony that any mortal has ever felt before death.

Alone to witness the aftermath, Kaden recalls the smell of smog that rose from the charred corpses and burnt rubble. He saw the captain's hand on his leg, causing him to stumble back in horror. He looked up and saw his captain's upper torso, his other half utterly incinerated into ashes that were still glowing with heat, his mask of fear and shock captured in the final moments of his fleeting life. As he kneeled before this morbid preservation of mortal emotion, Kaden let out a cry out of despair and rode out of Leathsham alone.

Back in the present day, Kaden concludes his answer to Mirana's question from earlier. He affirms the fact that he is indeed hunting something bigger than mere wyrmlings, while staring at his reflection on the surface of his wine. He looks up towards Davion and says that he is hunting Slyrak himself. He tells him about his progress on his hunt for Slyrak, which is the time when he finally found his lair after nearly twenty years. Although he found the lair to be utterly empty, he did find his trail through the earth. Following his tunnel, it took him to a mountain outside of Barrowhaven. He didn't find Slyrak in there, but he found the corpses of a dragon and a man, before revealing that he also found Davion's dragon fang necklace in the cave as he shows it to a shocked Davion.

Kadeen lectures Davion for recklessly entering the cave to battle the eldwurm, only to run away out of cowardice and shame. He reminds this younger knight not to repeat his mistake again and tells him about his firsthand experience with an eldwurm and how he learned that one unprepared man can only despair in the presence of an eldwurm. He then throws his fang necklace back to him on the table, before inquiring him about whatever he saw in that cave so that he may gain information that could help him kill Slyrak.

The episode doesn't show the whole of Davion's testimony to Kaden, but it only shows us the very last part. Davion explains that when he woke up from the incident, he found himself stripped of his equipment and utterly naked, including his dragon fang necklace. He concludes that everything he said was all that he could remember from the incident and pleads for Kaden's help. Kaden briefly invokes the sacred oath that these two have made as Dragon Knights and agrees to help him, before turning his gaze to the cold and uneaten dragon filet on Davion's plate with yet another hint of suspicion.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * dark side to his success, selfish, has all the adult dragon forged equipment to himself
 * has good memory, recognizes Davion's dragon fang necklace even after many years since they first met in dragon hold
 * brevity

Enemies
Slyrak

Anessix

Weapons
rewrite all of this don't copypaste

Kaden's sword is forged from the remains of an adult void dragon, retaining its gravity powers. It is linked to a portal scroll that allows him to receive anyone who uses the scroll to summon him through a portal after reciting a specific incantation.

This sword is best known for its ability to increase its own mass or weight in proportion to its current target. Kaden explains this concisely: "The bigger you are, the harder it hits." Because of the ability to turn the target's physical strength against them, this weapon is indispensable in his personal war against dragons, allowing him to fight these massive creatures. The blade can get heavy when it is against a heavy target such as a hundred ton dragon, so Kaden must wield this sword with his earth dragon gauntlets to have the strength required to lift it when that happens.

This sword is best known for its ability to increase its own mass or weight in proportion to its current target. Kaden explains this concisely: "The bigger you are, the harder it hits." Because of the ability to turn the target's physical strength against them, this weapon is indispensable in his personal war against dragons, allowing him to fight these massive creatures. The blade can get heavy when it is against a heavy target such as a hundred ton dragon, so Kaden must wield this sword with his earth dragon gauntlets to have the strength required to lift it when that happens. Besides dealing damage proportional to the target's mass, Kaden's sword has other cool features. To the left we can see Kaden using its power to propel Davion off of it, allowing him to reach and kill a low-flying water wyrmling. To the right, we can see that it can also form a spherical shield. This is a void dragon's shield since a rogue void dragon named Kashurra also has this kind of shield as well, albeit darker in color. Plus the color of Kaden's shield is the same as the purple and blue aura that emanates from his sword when it is active. Not to mention that the sword was activated when this shield was up. His secondary handheld weapon is a collection of ionic dragon teeth. Kaden was first seen using their fangs as an apparatus for interrogation. He claims that these teeth retain an ionic dragon's properties of truthfulness and inability to lie. Lodging them into a victim's body prevents them from lying, but apparently this didn't work at all, seeing how nothing special happened when he used it on Davion.

That's not to say that they're useless though. These teeth can deliver a short but powerful electric current that shocks victims on contact. Additional electric shocks are applied by simply moving the teeth while it's still lodged. It can also prevent the natural healing of a dragon's wounds such as Slyrak, so long as it's kept embedded in its victim's body. Kaden uses these teeth to can call down massive lightning bolts to electrocute his enemies.

Dragon-forged Armor
stuff forged from adult dragon remains, the next best thing to eldwurm-forged equipment

Skills
good tracker, somehow tracked down Davion with just a strip of cloth possibly left from his cape

good at butchering dragons, good at crafting weapons out of dragon remains like all other knights who are the order's forge-men

probably has cooking skills like whipping up some delicious ember dragon steak

Trivia

 * first referenced in dota underlords, including his blade
 * similar to batman tbh