Kade

Kade, a character from the Blades of Light and Shadow series, is Your Character's "brother" although you two are not blood-related. He first appears in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Kade is a human male with green eyes, short brown hair, and fair skin. He has freckles on his face, and wears a beige yellow shirt and olive green vest.

Personality
Although you long for adventure, Kade enjoys the simple and safe life at Riverbend. If you call him pessimistic, he calls it self-preservation. He sees the world through stories, which is why they are important to him. When he was young, he was bedridden until he was six years old; stories were all he had and he read every book in town.

Background
Both you and Kade were orphaned at a young age about twenty years ago and adopted by a kind farmer. When asked, you don't speak much about the farmer but just say that it's been you and Kade for as long as you remember and that he is your "brother", your best friend, and your only family. You both lived above the bakery just off the town square.

As he was growing up, Kade was extremely sick, often to the point that he was in danger of dying. His illness left him bedridden until he was six years old, which led to his love of reading and stories. He says that "when [he] ran out of stories, [he] started writing them."

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins
 * Chapter 2: Of Loss and Legends
 * Chapter 3: The City By The Sea (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 4: Escape at Sea (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 5: The Floating City (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 6: The Cursed Isle (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 7: The Deadwood (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: The Queen, The Prince, And The Exile (Mentioned; Physical Appearance Determinant)
 * Chapter 10: The City of Glimmering Lies (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 13: City of Wonders (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 15: Into the Shadow
 * Chapter 16: Blade of Light and Shadow

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Through the Looking Glass
 * Chapter 2: Coming Home
 * Chapter 4: Our New Nemesis (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 6: The Other Side (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 7: Conflict and Compromise (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 8: The Hero Of Riverbend (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: Deep Below (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 12: Surprises in Shadow (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 13: Just The Two Of Us (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 14: A Night to Remember (Mentioned; Determinant)
 * Chapter 16: Pirates and Thieves (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 17: The Longest Night
 * Chapter 18: It All Comes Down To This

TTRPG Companion

 * Chapter 1: The Adventure Continues

Your Character
You enjoy listening to him recant one of his stories at the Dancing Pig Tavern in your hometown of Riverbend. If you decide to flirt with Mal, Kade is astonished. He explains to you what the term "kit" means and does not deny you your adventure with Scholar Vash and Nia. He always thought that he'd live life through books while you were the adventurer and the dreamer.

In Chapter 2, when Mal drops the Onyx Shard, Kade reaches to pick it up without gloves. The air around him warps and stretches and shadows wrap around him, sucking him into the void. Scholar Vash tells you that he is now in the Realm of Shadow, and you promise to yourself to find a way to free him and bring him back.

In Chapter 3, if you decide to socialize with Mal and Nia at the local tavern, you can choose to tell them a funny story about you and Kade. When you two were sixteen, you both came up with a crazy plan to get some wine off a traveling merchant. You got gray wigs and Kade got a fake mustache and you both pretended to be elderly wine connoisseurs. In the middle of it all, when you both were drunk, Kade's mustache fell off into his goblet, he fished it out and stuck it on the merchant's face. You laughed so hard that red wine came out of your nose.

In Chapter 7, during a round of campfire stories, you can choose to talk about the time you and Kade attempted to steal a pie. You mention that you both were ten and twelve years old, and you had dared Kade to steal the pie because you both were hungry. Unfortunately, it was an eel pie not an apple pie, and you were chased by an angry goose to the point that Kade tripped and fell and landed in the pie.

In Chapter 15, you find Kade injured but alive in the Shadow Realm. He had been captured in the wilds of the Shadow Realm and brought to the dungeons. First they tortured him for information and then later just for fun. Your friends help make a splint for his leg, and he follows your group in search of Nia. If you are a terrible fighter, he defends you despite his own injuries and becomes gravely injured himself. If you decide to capture Aerin, Kade helps you and punches the prince.

Nia Ellarious
Kade thinks Nia is a sweet, naive, ethereal Sugar cookie.

Trivia

 * In Book 1, Chapter 1, if you tell him you think Nia is beautiful, Kade teases you calling you his "elder". This makes you the older sibling, two years older (as noted in Chapter 7).