Editing Kyuad (section)

==Background==

He has known ever since he was a boy that he was not of this world.  He was still-born and mysteriously light and translucent.  The young woman who performed the duties of undertaker for the village visited the house to ensure the passage of the newborn, and once there declared him alive.

She saw something unique in him, and stayed in the village for many years, overseeing his growth and training.  She did what she could to teach him about the differences between the world of spirit and the material world.  Life exists in both, and sometimes life from each realm bleeds over into the other.  That is the source of undeath.  He is an example of both life bleeding into the realm of spirit, and of spirit invading the physical world.  Somehow he is unique, born dead and yet still alive, with a spirit lost and a spirit gained.  Not quite fully alive, and not undead either.  The mystery of his life is something both of them together have devoted their lives to studying.

She still serves as his benevolent mentor.  Her unique abilities grant her foreknowledge of events that have not yet come to pass.  Because of this, she has seen a great opportunity for him to avoid his own death by opposing the forces of the Shadow.  How much of her knowledge she shares with him is still unknown, but he trusts her with his life, such as it is.

Kyuad's personality is that of a scientist.  He is constantly studying the world and the nature of magic, in an attempt to understand himself, and the world of Aryth.  A huge part of this is the study of positive and negative energies, how and why they still affect the world after the Sundering, and how undead creatures factor into the overall balance of nature.