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Kaden (known as The Mouse Who Thunders to Slyrak) is a major character in the series of Dota: Dragon's Blood.

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 not only oneshots the wyrmling, but even 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 this 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 it. Davion and Mirana 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 at night, 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 ever 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 grief and 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.

Kaden lectures Davion for recklessly entering the cave to battle the eldwurms, 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 dragon 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, rousing him with even more suspicion.

During nighttime, Davion had nightmares of his encounter with Slyrak. He woke up in a cold sweat and was surprised to see a fully armored Kaden at his bedside. With a charged backhand, he knocked out Davion and carried him down to the heart of the redoubt. The commotion caused the sleeping Mirana to stir and investigate Davion's dark bedroom. He was nowhere to be found, but she found his bracer blade on the bedside table. She left the room to look for him until he found Kaden on an elevator, carrying Davion's limp body on his shoulder. She cried out to him and tried to ask him what he was going to do with Davion, but he did not reciprocate. She runs back to Davion's room to retrieve the bracer blade and rallied Sagan and Marci to rescue Davion.

Later on, in the depths of the redoubt's heart, Davion wakes up and sees Kaden in front of him. Confused, he calls to him before Kaden suddenly stabs him in the right shoulder with a sharp object, which he reveals it to be an ionic dragon's tooth. He explains that these dragons cannot lie, and now that its tooth is embedded in him, he cannot lie either. He then calls to an unknown entity, which confuses the agonized Davion. He tells him that he is looking for Slyrak, prompting Davion to tell him that the dragon is long gone and dead now. Kaden disagrees and stabs him with another ionic dragon tooth on his left shoulder, causing him even more pain.

Kaden calls out the dragon within him one last time, calling him a coward. Slyrak finally begins to reveal himself as Davion's body transforms and emits draconic fire and the chains that are restraining him burn but not melt. The Father of Fire himself manifests in an intermediate form known as Slyvion that resembles a small humanoid version of an ember dragon, singing in both the host's and the dragon's voice. Finally meeting his nemesis after nearly twenty years, Kaden interrogates him on why he was hiding in Davion's body. Slyvion corrects him, saying that he is just travelling. Kaden asks him where, but Slyvion tells him that he smells his fear beneath his impassive face. He brags about outliving the mountains themselves as he watches them drown in oceans and says that his destination is beyond the reach of man.

Kaden expresses his intention to kill him, but Slyvion warns him of the consequences. He warns him that the knight's feat of slaying him will not quench his vengeance, nor will it garner him any praise from others for there will be no one left to do that. If he continues with his decision, then releasing him from his "corporeal fetters" will bring about irreparable and unpleasant consequences on a cosmic scale: the very dissolution of time and space, the destruction of the so-called Manifold Forms, and the ruination of the great duality of order and chaos pillars. Without the beings that ensure the restoration of the nonfinite multiverse from destruction, the endless universes will embrace finality with no recovery to follow. Even nothing will cease to be.

Having nothing to say about the extramundane scale of bullshit that he just said, Kaden tells him that he has been preparing for this encounter for twenty years. Slyrak brags about his power yet again, saying that empires and armies alike find their fate in his flames. Kaden agrees that even armies are destroyed by him, but the knight retorts by saying that he needs no army to kill an eldwurm. All he needs is his signature blade that's forged from an adult void dragon that can turn an opponent's overwhelming strength against them with its power over mass, which he brandishes against Slyvion.

The beast is suddenly reminded of him and his comrades back at Leathsham, reminiscing their taste and fear. Slyvion mockingly envies the luck that Kaden had when he was spared from the flames of fate and mocks him for running away. Meanwhile, Mirana has successfully brought Marci and Sagan with her to rescue Davion. She uses the bracer blade to shatter the elevator's chains so as to forcefully open the aperture. Going back to the beast and the man, the unfazed Kaden also recalls the miasma all too well. But the time of interrogation has passed and Kaden releases the beast from his chains, allowing them both to fight equally and unfettered. "Twenty fucking years," Kaden said. The ageless Slyvion responds: "Nothing to me." Their (relatively) long-awaited fight ensues.

Slyvion tears out the ionic dragon tooth on his left shoulder and pounces on Kaden. His attack was unsuccessful, however, as he did not hit Kaden who had vanished into thin air. Kaden suddenly reappears behind the stupefied beast as he slams his charged sword down on the ground, unleashing a shockwave that sends Slyvion flying into a pillar, causing it to collapse on him. Meanwhile, Mirana destroys the elevator's chains and gains access to the elevator, allowing the trio to descend into the nadir of the redoubt's heart and rescue Davion. Back to the fight, Kaden says to the collapsed Slyvion as he approaches, "Twenty fucking years and twenty-nine fucking souls, you think I'm not prepared for this?" He then berates the dragonoid for trying to hit him under the effects of a chaos dragon's planeshifting power.

He prepares to strike him down, but he is suddenly alerted to an intruder when he hears Sagan's roar. He promptly dodges Sagan's attack with the same chaos power and anticipates Marci's attack from the rear by himself. He grabs her out of the air by the neck and briefly chokes her before throwing her away in front of him. He realizes that he was attacked again from behind when he feels something trying to slip between the gaps of his armor. He turns around and backhands Mirana (who attempted to stab him with the bracer blade) in the face, knocking her away. Her attack had an unforeseen consequence on his armor though, as Kaden noticed that the chaotic power in his armor stopped working after she did that.

In a fiery nova, Slyrak unleashes his true form, which shocks Mirana. The real battle had just begun. Finally meeting the real Slyrak himself, Kaden assumes a combat stance as he materializes his helm and activates the voidal power of his sword. Slyrak tries to crush him underneath his palm, but Kaden quickly backs off. The beast tries to trample him two more times, but still Kaden dodges both attempts. Rearing up his head, Slyrak unleashes his fiery breath while the Nightsilver trio escapes the redoubt. Slyrak realizes that he has been hitting nothing, and scans the room for his enemy. Using his subtle size and unnatural flight, Kaden zips around Slyrak before rising up to the dragon's head. He activates his sword and brings it down on Slyrak's skull, slamming it into the ground.

Slyrak quickly recovers from the blow and slaps the airborne Kaden with his Dragon Tail. He successfully blocks it with his blade and clashes against it briefly, but he is overpowered and sent flying into a wall. The knight recovers from the attack and activates the air dragon power in his boots, blasting him away from the reach of Slyrak's flame breath. He ascends the redoubt's heart while dodging Slyrak's flames, and this prompts the Eldwurm to pursue him with his own flight. Kaden lands on a flight of stairs with Slyrak right behind him, who snaps his jaws at nothing when he ran away. He goes for another bite and fails since Kaden escaped him with his boots' power. Now behind the dragon, he zips back towards him and outmaneuvers him while dodging one of Slyrak's claw swipes. Using his void dragon sword, he strikes Slyrak so hard that he is sent crashing out of the redoubt's walls.

Kaden follows him outside the redoubt and flies towards him with his air dragon boots. The Nightsilver trio witness the spectacle as Kaden deploys his omnidirectional shield against Slyrak's inferno. The powers of dragon nature clash against each other as Kaden struggles to close the distance, until the clash ends in a bright and powerful blast that destroys part of the redoubt that was on top of the mountain. Mirana realizes that they have lost Davion and embraces her companions, until she hears Slyrak's roar. Having emerged from the clash undefeated, he swoops down on the trio and picks them up with his hands, flying away to an unknown destination.

A Game of Chess
Back at the cave from the seventh episode, there are clutches of air dragon eggs ravaged by fire. A dragon's cry of pain and death can be heard, and on the cave's walls, the shadow of said dragon slumping into a corpse can be seen. It was revealed to be a dead air wyrmling whose corpse rolls towards the burning eggs, and the culprit is Kaden, who had also survived his fight with Slyrak. Dematerializing his helm, he turns his attention to something on the ground. He picks up a tatter and inspects it. He then walks out of the cave, where seven other Dragon Knights have been waiting for him. Among them is Bram, whom Kaden gives the shred of cloth to. Kaden tells them that Davion was in the cave before and orders them to go north where they can find him.

The Knights finally track him down in Coedwig, where Slyvion is aiding Mirana's escape from the angered Coedwei. They bring down the airborne dragonoid with hooked tethers that wrap around him, restraining his wings and causing him to fall. Recovering from the fall, he roars in fury and tries to break free, until he sees Kaden walk up to him and reveal his face after dematerializing his helm. Slyvion demands him to remove the fetters so as to give him the battle that the dragon thinks he wants. Kaden withsays the battle, saying that he only intends to retrieve the boy within him. He then drops a capsule that releases a sedative smoke. Slyvion breathes it in and goes up in flames, reverting him back to Davion who is also left unconscious by the smoke. The Knights then deliver him back to Dragon Hold to cure his dragon impurity.

Unbeknownst to any of the Dragon Knights, Fymryn shadowed them on their way to Dragon Hold, intending to rescue Davion for herself.

Nothing with Nothing
Kaden, Bram, and the rest of his hunting party are closing in on Dragon Hold on horseback. Somehow, they managed to procure a mundane cage to contain Davion and wrapped him in a void dragon's raw muscles, effectively restraining him throughout the whole journey. Kaden halts his mount for a while as he recites his knighthood's (motto?) while looking at Dragon Hold in the distance, before continuing his journey. Even in this cold ravaged waste, Fymryn still managed to follow them to their keep.

Davion wakes up and finds himself in one of the Hold's cells, his limbs restrained by void dragon muscles. He sees Kaden in front of him inside the cell, who tells him that he's at home and that his current situation will get worst before it gets better. Davion demands him to remove his restraints because he was oblivious to his dragon condition. Kaden refuses, telling him that he screamed the same thing throughout the whole journey to Dragon Hold. He then informs him that Father will be coming presently, and the patriarch arrives in his cell (alongside an assistant squire with a covered tray cart) shortly after he says that. Kaden leaves Father to Davion and exits the cell.

Davion expresses his relief of seeing his father figure in this time. Father tells him that he's aware of the stories of his abilities, invoking Kaden's words of calling it a curse. Davion tells him that there's more to it, warning him that the demon Terrorblade has been killing the Eldwurms and stealing their souls. Dismissing his apparent lunacy, Father tells him that he has been killing dragons since childhood, long before Davion completed the Crossing to Dragon Hold. He harks back to the time when he saw a bright, talented, and determined child in Davion. Once again, Davion urgently implores him to protect the Eldwurms and fight alongside them, but Father casually ignores it and brings up the fact that he has never done the Blade Bond, but learned to forge weapons for slaying dragons nevertheless. The squire removes the cloth covering the cart, revealing an array of surgical tools that disquiets Davion. He brings up Kaden's words of calling Davion "cursed" once again, before expressing his desire to be cursed like him as he holds up a sickle, just so that he can finally kill dragons.

Meanwhile, Kaden makes his way to somewhere where he may unequip his armor, passing through the Great Hall on the way. His entrance silences everyone in the room except for Master Ritterfau, who calls him. Kaden ignores him, not even exchanging a single glance as he passes by him, prompting Ritterfau to remind him of his manners towards a superior. This stops Kaden, who turns back to Ritterfau to address him and apologize to him. Ritterfau forgives him for his insolence, harking back at the times when Kaden only appeared in Dragon Hold to haul in dead dragons, only to leave with dragonforged weapons in a dull and cyclical manner, doing this cycle for twenty years. Kaden corrects him, saying that he has hunted for twenty-two years.

Ritterfau rebukes him for hunting Slyrak for twenty-two years, only to return with Davion. He turns his attention to Bram and commands him to polish beneath his boots' ankle. Kaden glares at him and uses this moment to leave, but Ritterfau continues his rebuke which forces him to stop and listen. Ritterfau chastises him for working alone and accumulating fame, reminding him that the Dragon Knight order is a brotherhood that operates with unity and each of its members are equally important, bringing up Bram (also physically by pulling him up by his shirt) as an example. Bram tells him that he is pleased to be part of the team, only for Ritterfau to tell him that he wasn't given permission to speak before throwing him away. Once again, Ritterfau reminds him that he has wasted so much time away from his fellows in his quest to kill Slyrak.

The scene in the Great Hall set the other people in the room to whispering and murmuring, some of them looking away out of ???. Kaden glances back at Ritterfau and tells him that he will never polish the blood on his boots like Ritterfau always does, nor will he care to do so in twenty-two years. He then takes his leave, with Ritterfau giving him an angered look as he walks away. Bram looks at Ritterfau with a seemingly unpleasant look without the latter noticing.

Alone in a hallway, Kaden suddenly hears Davion's cries of pain. Father has been harvesting blood and bits of flesh from his body, even penetrating his bones. Kaden enters the cell and is shocked to see Davion hurt. Kaden tells Father that he promised not to harm him, but the latter tells him that he had no intention of harming him, but the pain he delivered was part of his necessary work and the only way to aid him. "Harm and pain are brothers," Father said, "but they live apart." He takes off his apron as his squire adjusts Davion's restraints. Kaden tells him that his methods won't work as he had tried them before and made it worse. He adds that he broke his trust to help him before and swears not to repeat that again. Before leaving, Father reminds Davion that he is still loved despite the pain he inflicted on him, before leaving the cell.

Kaden prepares to stand up and probably leave, but Davion grabs his arms so as to make him stay and hear his words. Davion pleads to him that dragons aren't merely animals. Kaden assures him that he isn't one either and turns to the squire who's still in the cell. He orders him to comfort Davion then meet him in the Great Hall when they're done. He then leaves the room as the squire puts a cloth over the wounds on his back.

After Davion has his blood harvested by Father's leeches, he is returned to his cell and restrained once again by the jailer squire. The squire leaves his cell and locks it up before leaving to get his dinner. Atop the ceiling is Fymryn, who is planning to bail Davion out even after he was rejected by him. She stalks the squire handling his jail and disguises into Kaden. Following the squire to the Great Hall, she approaches his table where Bram is regaling his fellow squires about the time he had to deal with Frühling. The squires listening to him suddenly stop and look behind him, also making him stop. He looks behind him and sees Kaden, who wordlessly tells the squire she tailed to follow her.

The two of them go back to Davion's cell to let her in, only for her to be interrupted by the same rotund squire who assisted Father with his painful methods on Davion. The squire informs her that Father is beckoning him to his room, slightly shocking her. She then complies as the other squire follows him, seemingly annoyed by this. They pass through Dragon Hold's forge until they reach Father's room. The squire knocks on his door and lets themselves in, before Father dismisses the squires but tells Kaden to stay so that they may talk alone. This seems to unease Kaden as the squires take their leave and shut the door.

Father talks to Kaden about how he disapproved of his efforts on Davion earlier and how he owes Davion a debt of honor. He swears to him that he will not question his oath to the young knight. However, he invokes the fact that each Dragon Knight gladly bleeds for the cause as his grounds for his methods and says that very few have shed their own blood for the cause as Kaden has. He mentions the times when they worked together to build up Kaden's power through weapons and armor for twenty years. In those times, Father has only asked of Kaden for his trust and nothing more. And now, he still asks of him for his trust.

He then presents to him the blood of Davion in a test tube, transformed by unknown processes. This disquiets Kaden. He presents it to him as a new kind of weapon, that which transcends their dragon-forged weaponry. A weapon that can harness the powers of a dragon without the need of extrinsic tools by infusing this blood into one's body, granting the recipient its natural power and healing. He also states that there's a possibility of Davion's blood being able to restore the dead. Meanwhile, Kaden frantically looks around his room and sees pages of his research on Dragon Clan. Father's research may finally allow him to achieve what he could not in his life—to slay all dragons. He realizes the potential of Davion's power and what it can contribute to his order as Kaden stares in horror before disappearing from his room. Father notices this and calls for him, but he is nowhere to be found.

Kaden is seen in the Hold's jails, resting against a wall. He is panting from the overwhelming unease that he had with Father's revelation. He then reverts back to Fymryn and prepares to inform Davion about what she heard before bailing him out.

In the Great Hall, the real Kaden is having his dinner. All of a sudden, a slight earthquake occurs in the Hall which disturbs the occupants and their dinner meal as a large thunder of enthralled water wyrmlings make their way to Dragon Hold to siege it.

My Sword, My Life
Before Bram could retreat into the Hold with his brothers, a water wyrmling managed to catch him in its claws and prepared to consume him. He is saved by Kaden, who strikes down the dragon with his sword, knocking its corpse away. He tells Bram to get inside as he looks at an incoming water wyrmling. He runs towards it and dodges its breath before slicing its belly. Now inside the Hold, Bram assists another knight in closing the gate and calls him to get inside before they shut the gate. Kaden makes a run for it as a water wyrmling closes in on him. He slides underneath the gate before it closes and the wyrmling behind him gets impaled by it. With everyone inside, they then shut the inner gates. The water wyrmlings outside try to ram the outer gate, rattling the room beyond it. The knights prepare themselves for a breach, while Kaden says "That's a lot of fucking dragons."

Later on, the knights have managed to barricade the door of the Great Hall with their mess tables. Ritterfau rallies them to him and orders them to hold their defensive formation. Kaden and Bram walk in and the former objects his orders, saying that they cannot defend this position as it is completely open and lacks cover. Ritterfau asserts his rank to Kaden as a Father of the order and swears to him that he will not let any of those beasts inside the room. Kaden reluctantly complies and tells them to continue the previous order.

All of a sudden, a water wyrmling busts through the wall, having switched their entry point. This surprises the knights in the room and causes anxiety in Ritterfau. The knights rush to the intruder (running over Bram who was in the way) as it crawls out of the hole that it made and whips several knights with its tail, sending them flying. Kaden managed to dodge its tail, but Bram is now in its way and is about to get hit. He quickly ducks to dodge it and its tail hits the knight behind him instead. Bram gets back up and sees it pounce towards him, but Kaden kicks him out of the way and sends it flying with a swing of his sword. The knights turn their attention to a disturbance in the floor as an earth wyrmling emerges out of it. They shiver around it in fear as Kaden realizes that the dragons are cooperating, telling that to a stupefied Ritterfau. He tells him to retreat, find Father, and resupply on weapons.

The Dragon Knights are being outnumbered and slaughtered by this unnatural dragon horde, while Ritterfau watches the chaos in terror. He is about to be eaten by an earth wyrmling behind him, but Kaden saves him by pushing him out of the way and killing it. He also kills a water wyrmling that was behind him by leaping up to dodge its attack and slamming his blade down on it. Upon landing, he sees an earth wyrmling charging towards him with its horns. He reacts to it just in time, but he is sent flying when it rams him. Ritterfau musters up his courage and cries "My sword, my life!" as he slices the wyrmling from earlier in half with his sword. After slicing another earth wyrmling in half, he sees a water wyrmling above him that's charging up its breath. He poises himself for its next attack, but he is ambushed by a burrowing earth wyrmling and torn to pieces.

Kaden is shocked by Ritterfau's death before barking at Bram to fight. Bram hesitates as he is just a squire, but Kaden tells him that he saw him kill a dragon, accomplishing the Blade Bond. He kicks Ritterfau's sword towards him and gives him a field promotion, before charging at an earth wyrmling and sending it flying with one swing. The last Dragon Knight in the room is eaten by an earth wyrmling as Kaden tells Bram to retreat to the servant stairs to find Father. They make a run for it as Kaden follows behind him, warding off the dragons that are chasing them. They make it to the room as Bram shuts the door behind them, just in time to block the earth wyrmling that was chasing them. Now that they are relatively safe, Bram is horrified by his comrades' deaths. Kaden tries to comfort by telling him that he's learning and doing fine, then tells him to inherit Ritterfau's sword and return the favor. He hesitates because it doesn't belong to him, but Kaden insists by saying that Ritterfau won't be needing it as a dead man. They then make their way to Father's room.

The pair managed to reach Father's room, but they found it in ruins without any signs of a dragon-strike. Father was absent from the room as well. They decide to continue looking for him, until they run into a barred room and feel the presence of earth wyrmlings. Kaden and Bram poise themselves as the former breaches the door. He strikes down the first earth wyrmling that he sees and reunites with Davion who is with Fymryn, the former being relieved of his aid. Kaden, Davion, Bram, and Fymryn work together to battle against the dragons in the room. After clearing out the room, they hear a familiar voice out of nowhere. Terrorblade begins to manifest on every reflective surface, from the ice to the steel in the room. A possessed Father reveals himself to the crew as Terrorblade channels his influence from Foulfell thru Father to seep corruption into the Heroes' minds.

Inside their minds, Terrorblade attacks at the lies and shortcomings of the four Heroes with the ugly truth that they struggle to hide from themselves. Against Kaden, he confronts him with his solitude and his ignorance to the pleas of his lost comrades to exact revenge and free them from their tormentor Slyrak. He forces him to face the truth of his loyalty to Davion, knowing that he refuses to strike him down, despite being the one that he must kill to earn his redemption and avenge the fallen people of Leathsham, his goal being barred by his oath to Davion and his hidden cowardice. With that being said, he tells him to kill Slyrak to reprieve his brothers from their torment and free himself from his burden. And all he needs to do to achieve that is to let him in.

As Davion and Bram recover from Terrorblade's attack (while Fymryn is still afflicted), they are shocked to find Kaden turning on them and taking Terrorblade's side. He activates his sword and swings it at them, but he actually turns his blade on Father. However, Father's frail body (enhanced by demonic strength) stops his blade with just two fingers and redirects its power, sending him flying towards a wall. The sword activates on its own and comes into contact with the wall behind him, causing it to shatter. Kaden almost falls down, but he is rescued by Bram who catches his arm. Meanwhile, the possessed Father removes Davion's binding necklace and tears out Slyrak's soul from his body. Fymryn manages to recover and sees Davion being harmed, prompting her to attack Father with her clones. He destroys them all with a blast of energy, but he is suddenly interrupted when she teleports him away.

After killing Father and being saved by Slyvion, Fymryn reunites with Bram and Kaden who has recovered two Dragon Knights from the Hold. They try to escape on foot, but the two knights are picked off and killed by water wyrmlings. Bram is about to be eaten by one of them until it was incinerated by Slyvion, who rejoins the team. Kaden tells his allies to stay together so that they won't be picked off by the swarm. They notice that the wyrmlings aren't attacking them and Bram sees a large water dragon different from the swarm. This dragon is Auroth, the Winter Wyvern.

The wyrmling swarm is also alerted to Auroth's presence. She rescues the gang by freezing the wyrmling swarm in a colossal wall of ice made from her breath. Kaden notices that Rylai is riding Auroth, before her dragon touches down and the latter tells them to climb on. Slyvion refuses, saying that he will stay to purify the corrupted swarm with his flames. Kaden warns him that the demon will get him if he does that and tries to convince him to join them against the true enemy. Slyvion stubbornly refuses by declaring all of them as his enemies, but Bram tries to reach into Davion and pleads him to join them. Bram tells him that Slyrak did this to him for a reason, saying that "it can't be this." Slyvion repeats his best friend's words and recognizes him as the "best damn squire in Dragon Hold" before reverting back to Davion. Save for the impassive Kaden, the crew is relieved to see him back.

They all climb onto Auroth and leave as Dragon Hold crumbles behind them.

The Lady of Situations
Dragon Hold is being ravaged by fire and crumbling into rubble. The water wyrmlings feast on the corpses of its former inhabitants. Meanwhile, Davion realizes that he has lost his binding necklace and looks back at the remains of his home. The rest of the crew (except Rylai) wear the masks of silent grief and sorrow on their faces.

The team arrives at Icewrack where Auroth's lair is situated in. After landing on the entrance of her lair and a brief conversation between Rylai and Bram, the former tells Kaden that he owes her two of something. Kaden requests from her food, rest, and supplies after their egress from Dragon Hold. Meanwhile, Davion wanders off and follows the source of the strange music, only to be stopped by Fymryn.

Following Davion's enthrallment, the three remaining Dragon Knights gather together for their next move. Kaden discusses their current situation and their strategies. He tells them that their first task is to reclaim what remains of Dragon Hold and its forge, so that they can craft more weapons for their future battles. After that, he plans to recall any surviving Dragon Knights in the field. Before he could continue, he is interrupted by a drunk and irritated Davion who tells him that his tactics are a waste of time. This shocks Bram, who quickly apologizes for him by saying that he thinks he's right and that they should move post-haste. Davion disagrees with him and stands up to Kaden. He reads Davion's intentions quite well and tells him that he means to rush in and kill the demon himself, to which Davion agrees.

In response to that, Kaden tells him to think for himself without Slyrak's will. Davion angrily warns him that nothing will matter if Terrorblade claims the Eldwurms' souls. He expresses his disappointment at seeing his idol running away from a fight and leaves them. Bram asks Kaden if he should go after him, but before he could say his second option, Kaden leaves the room as well, leaving him alone. Bram is then visited by Rylai, who asks him about the commotion. He tells her that a fight occurred between Davion and Kaden, prompting her to confront the latter first.

Rylai finds Kaden in his room training with his sword. She informs him that Bram told her about their fight. Kaden says that it wasn't a fight, but Rylai says otherwise. He explains that Davion went out like that because he saw things that he wasn't prepared to see. Rylai somewhat agrees that he indeed saw things, but she tells him that his current situation is just like his ordeal with Leathsham. She confronts him about the fact that he never mourned his comrades, but instead went straight to hunting for their killer. She also mentions that not only did he lose his comrades, but he also lost an unnamed woman. Kaden ignores what she said and tells her that they're at war. Rylai retorts by saying that their order's tacticians, the Fathers, are dead and he and his brothers need not tactics but rather what's been lost to them.

When Davion approached Auroth about the Radiant Ore in her hoard, Kaden was with the rest of the team, listening to her story with these sentient rocks. He did not participate in the conversation though, as did everyone except Davion.

Following Davion's meeting with Slyrak, he relayed his plan to kill Terrorblade to the team. Upon hearing it, Kaden told him that he expected more besides Slyrak's nonsense about the kingly Solar God and his relic, the Eye of the Worldwyrm. Davion also didn't understand what Slyrak told him, but Rylai said that she is familiar with both of what he said. She states that the Solar God's domain is the Helio Imperium, where she once lived in many years ago.

Desolate and Empty the Sea
Following Fymryn's departure from the team to catch up to the human caravans that were escaping the Coriel'tauvi's wrath, Davion (who appears to be sad) joined the remaining four Heroes for dinner. Nothing but the sounds of clinking utensils and the slurping of soup permeated the air, until Rylai urged Kaden to tell Davion about what they discussed about him and give him some parting words before his trip.

Kaden clears his throat and starts the conversation by bringing up Fymryn who had left the crew already. This surprises Rylai, implying that she didn't expect him to (nor did she mean to) start talking to the boy like that. Davion replies, saying that everyone leaves eventually, but Kaden assures him that doesn't apply to everyone. He wipes his mouth with a cloth and reaches for a portal scroll in his jacket, showing it to Bram. He explains that his scroll is linked to his blade and that he can use it to summon him later on with the proper incantation. Bram eagerly takes it from his hands, but fails as Kaden is still holding it tightly. He tells him not to lose it as it has now become valuable after Father's demise.

Bram assures and promises him that he won't lose it. He then asks if the portal scroll will teleport him, and before he could explain why, Kaden gives him a disapproving look as if he was waiting for him to take the scroll already. Bram submits as he takes the scroll from his hands, sarcastically expressing that portal scrolls are his favorite. Davion thanks Kaden and tells him that they're good to go, prompting the latter to approve him before preparing to leave the table. Before he could do that though, he is stopped by Rylai who puts her hand on top of his and urges him to continue with what they planned for him.

Kaden relents and lets out a deep breath. He tells Davion that he doesn't and never will trust the dragon inside him. He tells him to accomplish his task and reminds him to be aware of what he really is while he's at it–a man that is distinguishable from the Eldwurm within. He proceeds to leave the table.

Unreal City
After mourning Auroth's death at the hands of Kashurra, Bram decides to use the portal scroll that Kaden gave him. Spilling his blood on his scroll, he recites the words "Sata emedu" to initiate the spell. The scroll works its magic as a rift in spacetime slowly begins to open. Growing impatient, he suddenly sees Kaden step out of the portal, clad in his black suit of armor. Before he could ask him something, he interrupts himself when he notices the massive void dragon in the distance. He remarks its size before telling Bram to fill him in on what happened before his arrival.

Bram explains that Auroth saved him from Kashurra and fought the beast until her last breath, but despairs as he says that her efforts were not enough to stop him. Kaden motivates him by asking if he is still able to stand and fight against Kashurra and Bram regains his courage and says yes. He approves and asks him where Davion is, before they are interrupted by a fiery explosion from the ???. Slyrak flies out of it and Kaden prepares to fight him, but the beast has other plans. He proposes a temporary cooperation to slay Kashurra before he can continue his revenge. Kaden agrees and the two enter the fray.

Before Marci and Sagan are about to be killed by Tihomir's troops, Slyrak blasts his flames at Kashurra, who successfully blocks it but releases his grasp on Mirana. He recovers from the attack, only to be tackled to the ground by his weight. The impact causes a massive dust cloud and Slyrak flies out of it. He proceeds to call Kashurra "a corruption that imagines itself a dragon" while airborne. Kashurra unleashes three dark tendrils at him that enwrap themselves around his body before slamming him down. He lifts him up as he declares to him that he has evolved beyond his kind. With his maw open, he charges up a powerful voidal attack on the restrained Slyrak. However, he is interrupted by Kaden who swings his blade up across his jaw, throwing off his aim as he shoots his breath towards the sky, causing a brief lightning storm.

Kashurra tries to grab Kaden, but he quickly escapes him with his jet boots. The former is blasted from behind by a sustained torrent of dragon fire, forcing him to erect a shield around him. His powers persevere against this inferno, but they are no match as Slyrak's might destroys his shield, sending him flying a great distance away. Slyrak catches up to Kashurra and rebukes him for being separated from the Thunder for so long. He dragoons him into rejoining his kin, but Kashurra tells him that there is no Thunder to return to and swears allegiance to the Worldwyrm itself, being the protector of its Eye. Slyrak retorts, saying that while the Eye belongs to his horde, it does not belong to him at all. As dragons, they all belong to it.

Kaden remarks on their talkativeness and cuts straight into the fight. The two close in on Kashurra as they alternate their attacks against him, overwhelming the beast with their attacks. He manages to find a gap in their pattern as he yanks Slyrak's tail and swings him towards a mountain. Having defeated Slyrak, he looks up to see Kaden descending upon him with an ionic dragon's tooth. He calls down a lightning strike upon him and falls upon him with his blade, but he is stopped by Kashurra's shield. He proceeds to restrain him with gravity and compliments his unnatural power. He then points out that he is still a mortal man whose augments have done nothing to strengthen his nature and remove his limits. He proceeds to shoot him with a powerful beam from a void orb, sending him flying. As the gravity around the beast lessens, he asserts that he has no limits compared to him.

Slyrak recovers from the attack and notices the weakening gravity around him. He sees Kaden in the rubble, incapacitated from the last attack. Kashurra begins to transform as his maw unleashes an expanding sphere of energy that destroys everything within its radius. Slyrak quickly flies over to Kaden's body and shields him from the attack with his wings. As Kashurra's power dissipates, the smoke begins to clear, revealing himself in his human form, floating menacingly above the desolation that he created.

Following Mirana's revelation of her true nature and her newfound power burning through the darkness, all of the battle's participants, including Kaden, witness the gaze of the Worldwyrm's Eye. They make their way to the palace to meet the source. After a moment of mourning for Marci and Slyrak dispelling himself from Davion, he participates in Mirana's ascension as the Imperium's God Empress, bowing down to her to acknowledge her majesty.

In the last scenes of the episode, he is seen with Rylai in front of a great statue of Lina that honors her deeds, giving his solace to her.

Personality and Mannerisms

 * One of Kaden's most defining traits is his taciturnity. He may have gained this laconic trait as a part of his serious nature that he gained after his traumatizing experience in Leathsham. As such, he is straight to the point when talking—probs has no time to socialize. nevertheless he will talk to people if they tell him to
 * dark side to his success, selfish, has all the adult dragon forged equipment to himself
 * Kaden seems to have a good memory. Even after ~20 years since he first met Davion in Dragon Hold, he still recognized Davion's dragon fang necklace.
 * DOTA: Dragon's Blood, Book 2, Chapter 2: My Sword, My Life (14:47) *In Foulfell, Terrorblade raises his arm, channeling his power through the shards of Foulfell and Father's possessed body, coursing his unhallowed influence into the minds of the stupefied heroes Davion, Bram, Fymryn, and Kaden. A brazier's flame is shown being slowed to a crawl, as Terrorblade lets himself in* Terrorblade: Davion. Dragon Knight. What a long sad road it's been. Doomed to die. *Davion looks around the void he's in without a sense of direction, until he sees his corpse back in the very first episode, shocking him* Terrorblade: Forgotten. Your identity, consumed. *He is suddenly surrounded by flames that reveal their master, Slyrak.* Terrorblade: Transformed into a murderous abomination in the service of a master you hate. *The scene cuts to the silvery pools of the Temple of Mene, with the reflections of Fymryn and the moon. She picks up one of the magical lotuses in her hands* Terrorblade: Fymryn. Child of the moon, your head full of stories. A little girl who imagines she's a goddess. *The lotus she's holding suddenly dissipates into the wind. She follows the particles flowing behind her, only to find a desolate landscape littered with the corpses of her kin, shocking her* Terrorblade: Just a freak, really. An accident. *The scene cuts to Bram's stunned visage, then appears as a reflection on Ritterfau's sword* Terrorblade: Bram. Dear, dear, Bram. So full of hope. So earnest. So obliging. *Bram looks up to see his Dragon Knight comrades looking at him with disapproval* Terrorblade: But a sword doesn't make you a Dragon Knight. *The scene transitions with a gust of dust, revealing Kaden together with his doomed crew* Terrorblade: Thirty men rode to Leathsham. *On the barren earth, the shadows of Kaden and his fellows are seen, only for the latter to crumble into dust* Terrorblade: One rode back. *Kaden looks behind him and sees the corpses of his brothers* Terrorblade: You rode back. Alone. Always alone. The dead cry out for vengeance. But you ignore their pleas. *The scene cuts to Davion witnessing the destruction of Dragon Hold, but some error made it so that the scene where the redoubt in B1E4 was destroyed is reused here* Terrorblade: You have achieved what Slyrak himself could not. The destruction of the Dragon Knights. *The scene goes back to Fymryn, horrified by the lifeless bodies of her kin and haunted by the moment of their death* Terrorblade: Oh, so many dead, Little Bit. Because you were foolish enough to believe one lie, and make yourself part of another. *The scene cuts back to Bram assisting his brothers in battle as a squire* Terrorblade: Your destiny is to die on someone else's quest. *Bram looks behind him and sees Davion standing victorious over an earth wyrmling's corpse, receiving praise and glory while Bram stands in his shadow (literally and metaphorically)* Terrorblade: Serving someone else's glory. A sad bit player in another man's story. *The scene goes back to Kaden, staring down Davion in front of him* Terrorblade: Redemption stands in front of you. Clothed in the flesh of a man you call "brother". Yet you hide behind an oath and call your cowardice loyalty. *Davion transforms in front of him, turning into Slyvion. The scene cuts to Davion kneeling amongst the flame-ravaged ruins* Terrorblade: There is only one thing left for you to do. *It then cuts to Fymryn embracing Dyfed's corpse* Terrorblade: So far from your own battle. Hiding from the consequences. *Cuts to a terrified Bram falling into the void, before he ends up half buried in a coffin alongside the other squires* Terrorblade: Will they remember you, dear Bram? Or simply bury you next to all the other forgotten dead? *A storm of flames act as a transition to the next scene, showing Kaden facing off against Slyrak* Terrorblade: Strike Slyrak down. Free your brothers from their torment. *The scene cuts to Davion embracing Terrorblade's corruption, his eyes turning green* Terrorblade: Give in. *Fymryn embraces it too with the same effects* Terrorblade: Let go. *Bram rises from his grave, succumbing to the demon's power* Terrorblade: Change your destiny. *Zooming in to Kaden's corrupted eyes, it transitions into Terrorblade's eyes and fades into white, back to the real world* Terrorblade: Free yourself. Possessed Father: All you have to do, is let me in. Kaden: You were right. *The possessed Father smirks. Kaden walks to between the Heroes and Father, poised to strike* Kaden: Of course you were right. *Kaden swings his blade at them, but it turns out, he deceived the demon as he reveals that he wasn't affected and turns his blade on the demon vessel. However, Possessed Father casually blocks his sword with two fingers and redirects its power, sending him flying into a wall. The sword activates its voidal power on its own, causing it to shatter the wall behind him and letting him fall. He is rescued by Bram, however, who holds his arm*
 * realist or pessimist

Dragon Knights
Father

Kaden's Captain

Davion

Bram

Ritterfau

Acquaintances
Mirana  Sagan attacked them out of self-defense

Fymryn

Although these two didn't interact even a little bit, Kaden probably knew Auroth enough to not kill her on sight, seeing how she's a dragon.

Allies
According to Wei, the renowned  has great respect for Kaden.

Crystal Maiden

Enemies
Slyrak kaden and dk somehow learned his name. gained some respect for this mouse

Forming a temporary alliance with his nemesis Slyrak, both man and dragon set their differences aside and teamed up to battle Kashurra in the Helio Imperium.

Anessix

Equipment
Just like his fellow Dragon Knights, Kaden's equipment—from his weapons to his armor—is mostly forged from dragon remains. assisted by Father said to have powers of all 8 dragons so far he has shown only five (possibly six)

Weapons
Somewhere along the line of his rise to unnatural power among the Dragon Knights' order, accumulating dragons' strength and power with each kill, Kaden had a special sword forged for himself in Dragon Hold. His sword was forged from the remains of an adult void dragon, an awesome kill made even more impressive by the age and power and thus the danger of this fully-grown dragon, and the rarity of void dragons in general.

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 the ionic dragon's properties of truthfulness and inability to lie. Lodging them into the 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 these teeth are 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 tooth while it is still lodged. It can also prevent the natural healing of a dragon's own wounds such as Slyrak, so long as it's kept embedded in its victim's body. Kaden also uses these teeth to call down massive bolts of lightning to electrocute his enemies.

Dragon-forged armor
Most, if not all, of the parts of Kaden's suit of armor are forged from adult dragon remains, the next best thing to eldwurm-forged items.

The blue stuff on his armor suit seems to resemble a chaos dragon's pelt, which is underneath their dark scales and seen through the gaps in their scales. Kaden wears a chaos dragon's hide underneath his suit's cuirass, bracers, gorget, and leg armor. The gaps in his armor that expose the pelt may be meant for ease of movement in his joints: his neck, kneepits, waist, and wrists.

Speaking of chaos dragons, the lines on his suit's breastplate resembles the patterns on chaos dragon wings, implying that it is forged from their remains.

Kaden's suit of armor is very tough. Not counting the obvious parts of his armor that expose his clothing, and thus his weak points, it's hard to slip through the gaps of his armour (such as the cuirass), since Mirana couldn't slip Davion's bracer blade all the way through his cuirass' tight gaps to shank him. This trusty suit of dark armor has protected him from the worst of dragon-sustained damage, such as the blast created by the clash between his void shield and Slyrak's breath (which destroyed the upper part of a redoubt) and the force of Kashurra's dark beams, albeit it didn't save him from being incapacitated by its force.

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Air Dragon
Kaden's boots are infused with the elemental power of an air dragon's remains. When their elemental power is activated, they will glow white and emit a ring of air, producing a distinct sound that sounds like a zipper being quickly fastened or opened. His boots inherit the air dragon's ability to emit bursts of air towards the terminus of their tail to propel themselves forward. Directed towards the soles, the air from these boots generate thrust, propelling the wearer a great distance away from a surface. When used in mid-air, these jet boots can extend Kaden's airtime as long as he keeps propelling himself, granting him sustained flight.

In the hands (or feet in this case) of Kaden, he uses these jet boots to great effect with his excellent acrobatics. While airborne, Kaden can quickly change the direction that he will travel next via performing mid-air rolls to aim himself to his next direction, allowing him to travel in winding and zigzagging courses to dodge attacks and outmaneuver opponents.

Earth Dragon
Forged from the remains of an adult earth dragon that he slew all by himself, Kaden's "gauntlets" (they are actually bracers, because they have no hand protection) inherit the tectonic strength of an adult earth dragon, making him just as strong as the beast.

With this unnatural boost of toughness, his striking strength increases proportionally to this boost. Their earthly strength synergizes well with his void dragon sword. With the immense strength of a fully-grown earth dragon, Kaden can further enhance his swing speed which is proportionate to the strength behind his sword swing, allowing him to strike much harder. With the earth's strength behind each swing of his voidal blade, each hit that this blade deals against a heavy target can be extremely devastating.

Not only that, but these bracers boost his lifting strength as well, allowing him to lift his blade when it increases its mass versus heavy targets and lift an ember wyrmling's corpse.

Chaos Dragon
Kaden's cuirass allows him to harness a chaos dragon's planeshifting powers. His plate's inner powers can be toggled on, so that he can access it as long as it's active. While active, this breastplate glows red and emits a humming sound.

With this power, Kaden may quickly shift into another plane of existence that seems to transcend all matter, causing him to fade from existence, assuming a state akin to this ethereal status before vanishing. After that he can reappear a short distance away or simply teleport in place, the latter akin to Puck's.

Besides his cuirass, his helm also uses a chaos dragon's power, albeit for a less, combat-oriented purpose, but still used in battle nevertheless. Like his plate, his helm has planeshifting power, but it doesn't bring him with it. Instead, he uses its power to teleport it away into an extradimensional space when he doesn't need it, causing it to vanish. When he needs to wear it, he can recall it back to him, allowing him to instantly equip and de-equip his helm hands-free. Show writer Ashley Miller states that the helm, once it has been banished, is probably still on Kaden's head the whole time.

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Ionic Dragon
Despite being forged from earth dragon remains, Kaden's bracers can channel the electricity of the ionic dragon. Perhaps a few traces of an ionic dragon's remains were mixed and infused into his earth dragon bracers, or its ionic power comes from another part of his armor suit.

Regardless, he only used his bracers' powers once to knock Davion unconscious with a charged backhand, so that he can carry him to the bottom of the redoubt's heart without any struggle or resistance from him. Knocked out cold, neither Davion nor Slyrak was able to interrupt Kaden as he prepared to interrogate the former on the latter's whereabouts.

Others
Weapons and armor aren't the only things that Kaden needs for his job. Kaden has a small miscellany of equipment to aid him in his doggedly hunt for Slyrak. One of them includes a small capsule that contains a sedative smoke substance concocted in Dragon Hold. The tube holding this smoke is fragile and it can be dropped on the ground to break it open, and release the smoke. The smoke contained in this tiny tube is enough to knock out small creatures like hatchlings and other human-sized beings who breathe it. Larger creatures like wyrmlings require a larger dose.

As shown on the right, Kaden used it once to sedate Slyvion. When Slyvion was put to sleep, he vanished in flames, reverting him back to Davion. There was still some smoke left following Slyvion's disappearance that also knocked out Davion.

Another part of his equipment is a portal scroll made from void dragon remains. This one is quite unique though as it serves a different purpose.

Like all portal scrolls, they inherit the void dragon's ability of bending space to make portals. Unlike most of them, however, it seems that Kaden's scroll isn't meant for personal teleportation.

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

tactician?

Trivia

 * Kaden was first referenced in the spinoff gamedota underlords, including his blade. said weapon turns enemy's innate strength aginst them (in the form of their mx hp) just like in the show
 * The writer of the animated series, Ashley Miller, compares Kaden to the Marvel superhero Iron Man. He may have made this comparison because they both wear a weaponized suit of armor with versatile capabilities.
 * kaden sword inspiration
 * similar to batman tbh, fatherless and motherless, after their doom he swore to become an eradicator of the beings that killed them, dark and brooding, smart and tactical, lots of equipment