Arniel Kane

Arniel Kane, harbinger and main antagonist of The Silence, was a crafty individual who was well trained in the arts of illusion, manipulation, and politics. Born of the long exiled Thanids, Kane had to pull strings from the shadows in order to avoid drawing attention to himself, as he had several renowned scholars, cultists, and noblemen taking action to see that he could achieve his goal of wielding the gifts of the Quai for him and his own, though his history reaches long before these events.

Before the Silence

Morgunn

Arniel Kane, according to his own claims, was born in the era of Morgunn. He both saw the arrival of humanity, lived to see the enslavement of the Kaban, and saw his people forced into exile. He had been part of the group of Thanids that turned their backs upon the Kaban in exchange for freedom and peace. When his group of nomads decided to put their sins behind them, they would travel north to the yet untamed regions of Trinen. While the fate of the group is unknown, Kane lightly touched on their fate in several pieces of writing. If his claims are true, the majority of them would fall to dehydration outside of the marsh, while he pushed on. When Kane was eventually that last in the group, he was presented a vision from Chal Churdour, devil of hysteria and disease. The creature offered to grant him eternal life and prosperity, should he return from the land he came to pass judgment on his tormenters. When Kane agreed, this judgement came through the incubation of a great plague within his own body, though he would not realize this for years. The symptoms would begin disfiguring his body and driving him to madness over centuries. Kane, realizing he had been manipulated, would begin his long term plan to achieve the trust of Chal Churdour. The thanid would pretend to be supportive of the plan, indulging Chal in his fascination in disease. Through unknown means, he would come to understand the inner workings of pathogens in a way the rest of the world still has yet to grasp, as he would destroy all of his work near the end of the end of The Silence .

Note: Visions in Madness

In his slow decline into madness as the disease thrust upon him took hold, Kane would begin to see prophetic visions. Many question the validity of the visions, as there are no historical records, while his defenders claim that is to be expected, as the elves were the only individuals with reliable records during the era. Regardless of their validity, Kane claimed to have seen visions of the Mountainfold, the War of Eyiliv, the STarfall Rupture, and the fall of the Saltkrigere Empire.

Dagur

in the era of Dagur, Kane claimed to have learned every secret he could of disease and separated himself from Chal Churdour in a great betrayal of trust and destruction of several ancient artifacts. It was with His new information that he would spread his teachings to the Astanians, who he viewed as another disgraced people.

Hadegi

During Hadegi, Kane would make his best efforts to reach out to Eldurgrund regarding the information that was lost when Astania fell. Unfortunately, they were dismissive of Kane, for his skin had begun to shrivel with warts that had burst. His eyes were bloodshot and he claimed that an infernal stench followed his decaying body wherever he went. His shunning by the Elduri people bred a hatred within him for humanity. While he had intended to use his visions to prevent the War of Eyiliv in the past, he claims that he shunned the plan after this point, hoping the war would wipe them out.

Huomen

Kane said that by the end of Huomen, he had lost self autonomy entirely. He had few memories from the era, aside from the refusal of the Saltkrigere Empire to heed his visions regarding its downfall. Records of this particular meeting were never uncovered, as most documents under the empire were destroyed when the Augury took power.

Middagstid

Middagstid was the era of The Silence , when Kane concocted his plan to take the Quai for himself. The exact manner of how he recovered from his stupor of madness is unknown, but he claims it was not powers of divination.

The Dissention of the Quai

Arniel Kane, after his recovery from madness, would use the information he had learned and stolen from Chal Churdour to spread a brutal disease within Mot D'nir. His many stages of development of his pathogen would bring short term chaos to the marsh, but it was the eventual bargain with the Quai that would help him attain his goal of subjugating the marsh. With the help of several individuals, including Remr Taft and "Krill," Kane would come into contact with the Quai, manipulate politics, and secure funding for his plans of bioterrorism. Upon his bargain with the Quai, Kane would utilize its extradimensional spaces to corrupt individuals, turning them into loyal aberrations. These creatures, which he called "Quai born," would ravage the land in his name, as he held the Quai's perceived promises of afterlife and security over the heads of those he stole it from. Upon his spread of the Quai territory to appease its desires, he would summon a foreign machination known as the "composer," which he would use to rapidly spread his territory and the domain of the Quai. This plan was thwarted when the foreign object was hijacked and crashed within Taopin's Well, South of Saint's Maar. Kane would be slain on the same day.

Plans for After?

While no one can confirm what his plans would have been upon destroying Saint's Maar, the notes uncovered from his cabin reveal a separate machination known as the "decomposer."