Ancient Apparition/Lore

Kaldr the Ancient Apparition is a faint and eerie projection of a being that exists outside of time. His stake in the war of the Ancients is unknown, but what we should be more concerned about is the grim fate that he brings to all of creation.

Biography
Kaldr appears unto the world as an incorporeal elemental of ice: a being at one with nature, but in this case he is at one with the icy elements of nature. This elemental is naught but an image, a mere projection of a greater being that exists outside time in the cold, infinite void—a presence that predates the universe and awaits its end at the moment of the great equilibrium.

Mere apocrypha dictates that as the cosmos ages and is ushered to its final moments by time, Kaldr's light and power will grow ever stronger. His Ancient moniker will lose its meaning as he defies time's aging and grows younger, his grip of ice will bring all matter to a stop, his image will cast a light too terrible to behold and herald the coming of the great equilibrium!

Personality and Mannerisms

 * Likely as a joke on his name, Kaldr will often speak about his age and ghostly nature, sometimes acting like an elderly being or a spooky ghost.

Allies
Kaldr is a subordinate to the Fundament. He seems to not acknowledge this (likely on purpose) which causes Enigma to remind him of his place.

Interests
According to Wukong, Kaldr has a crush on and wishes to ask her out on a date.

Embodiment
Kaldr is, as his name says, an apparition. He is a spiritual being in a body of ghostly ice that is animated by the spirit within. Because he embodies and wields ice and cold, he is an ice elemental.

This is not his true form, however. His lore suggests that he embodies the heat death of the universe, as implied in his lore which mentions the cessation of matter in the time of the great equilibrium. Kaldr's earliest depictions were once recorded in unreadable texts written in an extinct language. Archivists from the Ultimyr Archives have found these texts and one of them attempted to use a deciphering spell to read it, but was driven mad as a result.

Powers
The power that we observe from Kaldr is but a fainted echo of his true cosmic form. His powers are limited to a worldly ice elemental that can manipulate cold and ice, but soon Kaldr will gradually grow stronger as the end of the universe approaches where he will be able to stop matter itself. It would seem that he is no mere elemental however, since he can control time to a minor extent.

Outside of 's effect in gameplay, the lore for this ability implies that it is much more powerful than what we see from his gameplay. The ability's lore describes that just his mere presence can draw those around him into a frozen void, where they will be locked in an "icy prison" for eternity. This "frozen void" might be the same cold and infinite void where Kaldr's image springs from outside time, which means that this ability is no mere freezing spell, but rather a gateway beyond time and into the void itself.

Kaldr manipulates frozen, caustic winds at a whim, creating an that freezes the area and anyone caught in its area of effect.

allows Kaldr to use his "eternal knowledge" to imbue his attacks with a frigid enchantment. The old lore for this ability before it was reworked once stated that this also enchants his allies.

Channeling ice storms from ages past through his frosty limbs, Kaldr releases their power through an that crashes into the world and freezes anyone caught in its ill wake into statues of ice. The lore implies that these ice storms are actually drawn from time periods in the past before being sent into the present by Kaldr, hinting at some form of temporal power.

Friendships and Rivalries
Allies meeting Ancient Apparition
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_ally_05.mp3  You're not much of a people person, are you.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_ally_06.mp3  I'm not sure if the shivers I'm feeling are nerves, or just being around you.
 * vo_dawnbreaker_valora_ally_005.mp3  Convenient that you're here, Apparition. Let's fight after the fight.
 * vo_enigma_enig_ally_08.mp3  You mistake me Apparition. I am more than you know.
 * vo_enigma_enig_ally_09.mp3  Ancient Apparition: an elemental in service to the Fundament.
 * vo_grimstroke_grimstroke_ally_04.mp3  Just between us, Kaldr, what's your stake in all this?
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_ally_05.mp3  I'm not keen on frost, yeah? Let's keep it to a minimum.
 * vo_kunkka_kunk_ally_03.mp3  Apparition, with you by my side I'll live to be an ancient mariner!
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_ally_05.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_ally_05.mp3   Listen ghost, if you're ever gonna ask the Crystal Maiden out on that date, you better start working on those ice puns.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_ally_06.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_ally_06.mp3   Here's the plan: you freeze 'em, and I'll smash their face in.
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_ally_05.mp3  Are you brighter than you were yesterday?
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_ally_06.mp3  Does anything surprise you anymore, Kaldr?
 * vo_puck_puck_ally_02.mp3  Excellent, an apparition of exceptional age. What I wonder can it teach me.
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_ally_07.mp3  Cookies n' cold cream go together just nice.
 * vo_tusk_tusk_ally_05.mp3  So are you supposed to be some kind of ice ghost?
 * vo_void_spirit_voidspir_ally_03.mp3  Have you knowledge of events to come, Kaldr?

Enemies meeting Ancient Apparition
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_rival_05.mp3  You should've stayed incorporeal.
 * vo_grimstroke_grimstroke_rival_05.mp3  They say you always were. Now you'll never be again.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_rival_05.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_rival_05.mp3   You should've stayed home, Apparition. You're not walking away from this.

Enemies killing Ancient Apparition
 * vo_alchemist_alch_rival_04.mp3 I always wondered what you'd get if you melted Apparition down.
 * vo_bane_bane_rival_07.mp3 When your blood runs cold, you can blame it on me.
 * vo_brewmaster_brew_rival_08.mp3 I prefer my spirits in liquid form.
 * vo_brewmaster_brew_rival_20.mp3 Time for a cold one.
 * vo_centaur_cent_rival_03.mp3 When ice meets blade, ice loses.
 * vo_clinkz_clinkz_rival_03.mp3 Ice is no match for fire.
 * vo_clinkz_clinkz_rival_04.mp3 Naught but steam!
 * vo_crystalmaiden_cm_rival_18.mp3 Old, cold and busted.
 * vo_dark_willow_sylph_rival_06.mp3  You never should've stuck your nose in my business, Kaldr.
 * vo_dawnbreaker_valora_rival_005.mp3  You've lurked at the edges for too long. I say no more.
 * vo_enigma_enig_rival_18.mp3 You have been too long in the cold.
 * vo_enigma_enig_rival_19.mp3 You should not fight your betters.
 * vo_enigma_enig_rival_20.mp3 You are beneath me.
 * vo_hoodwink_hoodwink_rival_05_81.mp3  Hate to shatter your dreams, you frigid idiot.
 * vo_jakiro_jak_rival_11.mp3 A respectable chill, Apparition, but put some fire in it next time. More ice, too.
 * vo_keeper_of_the_light_keep_rival_13.mp3 Ancient you were, dead you are.
 * vo_mars_mars_rival_05.mp3  It always feels good to kill an ancient one.
 * vo_mars_mars_rival_06.mp3  Ah, that feels nice. I'd worked up a sweat!
 * vo_medusa_medus_rival_17.mp3 Ice cracks, the same as stone.
 * vo_monkey_king_monkey_rival_06.mp3 vo_monkey_king_monkey_crown_rival_06.mp3   You think you're the first spirit I've dealt with?
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_rival_05.mp3  Not ancient enough, it appears, to know better.
 * vo_pangolin_pangolin_rival_06.mp3  You require a bit more fire in your belly to take me on.
 * Phoenix_bird_emote_bad.mp3 Chirp!
 * vo_rubick_rubick_rival_17.mp3 Thaw and shatter.
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_rival_07.mp3  Nothing personal, ice cube. I'd have welcomed you just the same.
 * vo_snapfire_snapfire_rival_06.mp3  So much for that business opportunity!
 * vo_spectre_spec_redux_rival_20.mp3 Death's cold embrace.
 * vo_stormspirit_stormspirit_rival_19.mp3 Mm, Spirit, Apparition…they're nothing alike.
 * vo_tiny_tiny_rival_14.mp3 Nothing personal, Ancient. Some of my best friends are fossils.
 * vo_tusk_tusk_rival_07.mp3 Did you know that I shatter ice with my fists for fun?
 * vo_void_spirit_voidspir_rival_03.mp3  I once thought you might aid my cause in a much greater capacity than fodder.
 * vo_winter_wyvern_winwyv_rival_01.mp3 You're the ice cold wind beneath my wings.

Others
 * vo_oracle_orac_prophecies_004.mp3  You shall almost certainly exhale your last in an icy blast.