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Born of Ash and Storm Vol I: Unbound

Summary:

Kaidan was a boy raised without roots... and by the Nine if that didn't show. No kin, no purpose... no future to call his own. As a lad, he used to dream tall dreams of adventure and heroism. Of destiny. Of Fate. What a foolish notion that was.

In flight of the shadows of his past, Kaidan finds himself tracing old steps back to his homeland - to Skyrim, and the eternal cold of the North's embrace. He hoped, perhaps, that in uncovering the mysteries of his heritage and strange childhood, he might discover shades of the man he was supposed to be. He might even find a way to redeem himself, and become that man. But he never expected to befriend, of all people, an Imperial mage on the road; he hadn't planned on crossing paths with a lass whose Fate, it turned out, was not her own; he couldn't have guessed at the world of myths and legends she would drag them into - a world rife with dangers and threats on every front. A world in which - despite all the agony and terrors it promised - Kaidan felt he heard within it the elusive cadence of something that might have been... home.

Chapter 1: Prologue [Character Spotlight - Kaidan]

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Kaidan; First of the Dragonguard

Kaidan

 

Kaidan;
The Strongarm

‘I’ve learned that if you feel you have no place in this world, you must make one.’

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Age: 25
Height:
6′4″ / 194cm
Weight: 260lbs / 118kg
Birth: 14th First Seed beneath clear skies, just as the sun crested the Horizon.
Stone: The Lord

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Kaidan was a boy raised without roots, and it shows.

He lived much of his life as a lad on the roads with Brynjar - or rather, eyeing the roads warily from what the grisly old Nord considered a safe distance. Brynjar, you see, had the ghosts of his past to contend with, and for all his efforts to the contrary, he wasn’t quite able to stop those looming spectres from sinking their ghastly teeth into Kaidan’s present. 

Kaidan was trained from a young age to fight. Swordplay, marksmanship, and the contemplation of battle stratagems were everyday topics of conversation for him. He’d learned how to gut a man and bury the evidence before he’d ever learned how to read. As he grew older, his swordsmanship became a point of pride - and it was pride that lead him down his darkest path.

Regret, for the longest time, kept him caged within in its shadows. 

But from those shadows, Skyrim called - and he followed his feet to heed that call in search of something... more. You see, Kaidan is a wanderer in search of a home, but belonging has always been just out of reach. 

Perhaps he’ll finally find the place where he belongs, back where it all began, in the North’s wild embrace.

Perhaps.

Notes:

[FYI]
So I've decided to split this fic into volumes, and bookend each one with the character spotlight. This story starts, of course, with Kaidan, so this is his.

New readers to the story, just click on ahead for the first chapter.

~ Indie x