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Cayde'6 is a character in Bungies Destiny franchise. He was first seen in Destiny and was last mentioned in Destiny 2: Season of the Lost Joining the Exo program in his younger days he became the Hunter Vanguard after his friend and partner Andel Brask was killed by Taniks, the Scared, someone who Cayde thought to have killed.

In-Game Description
From Destiny to Destiny: Rise of Iron Cayde acted as the vendor to all Hunter Guardians, selling armour and cloaks to hunter players whilst also giving off quick remarks to players of the opposite class if you happen to approach him as a class other than Hunter. It wasn't until 2015s Destiny: The Taken King that Cayde got his backstory more fleshed out whilst also becoming more pivotal to the story. In the same expansion and year, Caydes signature weapon the Ace of Spades an exotic kinetic hand cannon was first introduced being exclusive only to players who were hunters. 2017 marked a turning point as well as a complete shakeup for the franchise as Destiny 2 was released. Not only being a completely new game, characters and their roles in the game had a makeover. Whilst in the lore he still advises hunters, in-game his role is vastly different, whilst he no longer sells hunter specific gear he would sell treasure maps that lead to old caches of his that he hid. Caches could contain items such as:


 * Rare Gear
 * Legendary Gear
 * Resource Materials
 * Planetary Materials
 * Caydes Oddatiues
 * Pages from Caydes Journal

Whilst players could keep items such as the pages or any of the oddities the purpose of these items were specifically used for selling them back to Cayde for a large sum of glimmer. Cayde also had the opportunity to sell to the player, scanners for specific planets. These would allow the player to find chests and planet materials for their in-game map. Whilst his inventory was substantially lower from the previous title, Cayde was the main vendor for Flashpoints an activity that reset every week that would take the player to different planets where'll they encounter a variety of powerful enemies and a subject of new rewards and activities.

In June 2018 during the E3 live event, Bungie released the cinematic trailer for Destiny 2: Forsaken which depicted and confirmed the demise of Cayde at the hands of Uldren Sov. Whilst at the time players wouldn't know what would happen to both Caydes inventory and the items associated with it. It would be confirmed later on that his inventory would be removed and the items whilst you can keep them, there would be no way to acquire them again making them rather rare unique items in a players inventory if they chose to keep them. As of November 2020, these items were eventually removed from players inventory and put into the content vault

The game was updated the week before Forsaken launched on September 4th, this update whilst adding the fundamentals to the game to prepare the servers for the launch, it also removed Cayde from the game saying Cayde has been removed from the tower to investigate a disturbance within the Reef

Whilst he was removed from the game at this point and played a key pivotal role in Forsaken he has been referenced in some way in every expansion up to this point.

Biography
The lore book The Man they Called Cayde gives a brief account of who Cayde actually was. Since he is an Exo his memories and past are a mystery. The six in Cayde_6 refers to the number of times he's been rebooted, his five other-selves are a mystery to himself and will make constant remarks about wanting to know who he actually was. Before Forsaken he would often make remarks and small quips about his past, specifically those about his wife and son in his life before he was an Exo and a guardian however, he has since confirmed all this in his final lore book entry that all of it was, in fact, a complete lie. He states that they were all a fabricated memory and he remembers nothing about them, whilst he does know that he loved them, he has since ultimately chalked it up to it not being his memory and in fact their memory. This was a pretence that he used to try and be the hero that people thought of him and a reason to stay on the side of a good man.

Sometime before the events of Destiny and after the great catastrophe on the moon at the hand of Crota, Cayde found himself on Lunar facing off against the Hive. It was then whilst taking cover behind a crashed jump ship he found himself face to face with a Fallen Baroness who was also seeking shelter from the Hive. As the two opted to not kill each other they formed a pact to work together to fend off the onslaught of Hive. Both wounded and with only one weapon The Baroness rolled over to grab the weapon only for Cayde to kill her in self-defence. Cayde makes it clear in the lore entry that to this day he is unsure whether she was out to kill him or wanted him to kill her in self-defence, Cayde would later go on to think that she wanted death but was too scared to pull the trigger herself.

Cayde became Hunter Vanguard after the death of his close friend Andal Brask at the hands of Taniks. Himself, Shiro_4 and Andal Brask were scouting around picking off Fallen brigades and smuggling loot into the city when Taniks a Fallen bounty hunter, were given the task to annihilate them found them and attacked. Whilst all three managed to escape, Cayde and Andal whilst drinking heavily agreed to the Hunters Dare. A dare in which if one would lose would be chained in the last city and serve as leader of the hunters. For a Hunter, this was the worst punishment one could have as it would mean you'll spend the rest of your life serving the Vanguard and not being in the wilderness and free. Osiris and The Speaker at the time would send Saint_14 to go and hunt down Tankis, whilst hearing of this Cayde would rush things and go after him then and there. Cayde would go on to feel solely responsible for the inevitable fate of Andel Brask as it was Taniks's first death that caused Andel to lose the bet and go on to become Hunter Vanguard. Cayde would try and talk him out of it as they were both intoxicated when forming the dare and in grief over the loss of Lung, Andel would explain that if he was to back down it would be deemed as an act of cowardice. Seeing this as an opportunity to help get things into the city Andel used his intelligence to tip-off Fallen cache locations to Cayde and Shiro, although it wasn't long before Andel saw things The Vanguard Way as Cayde puts it. Andel would inevitable perish at the hands of Tankis, who somehow survived Caydes attempt on his life. Looking at it as an act of failure Cayde took Andel's position as Hunter Vanguard and acquired Andel's cloak as a symbol of a fallen friend.

During both games Cayde would often make remarks about The Deep Stone Crypt this is a location that has been hinted at for years but up into 2020s Destiny 2: Beyond Light its actual location was a mystery. As an Exo and many more like him, Cayde was often subject to many unfortunate nightmares about the Deep Stone Crypt For all intense and purpose Cayde would have his memory about the crypt wiped, that wouldn't stop him from hating the minds behind it and vow to fund and stop them. Going as far as to call them out in his death messages in Forsaken

Cayde played a key role in The Taken King defying the Vanguard and sending the Guardian to Old Russia for a warp drive to attach it onto Eris Morns ship in order to sneak onto Oryx's Dreadnaught after he invaded the system and resided himself on the rings of Saturn. When snuck onto the Dreadnaught Cayde would get found out by Zavalla and after a swift telling off, Zavalla advises the Guardian to keep with Caydes mission and after a successful invasion on board to place, a transmit beacon he commemorates both you and Cayde for an unrealistic mission.

The same expansion bought along a new quest for each class to introduce some new powers for each one. Cayde would tell the Guardian of a hunter class that his friend Tevis was missing near the Ishtar Sink on Venus. Asking the Guardian for help on the matter he elaborated by stating Tevis owes him money, although the fear in his voice is enough to tell the player that he is worried for his friend. It's revealed in the mission that Tevis is in fact one of the last nightstalkers. When the Guardian makes their way through Venus, remains of Vex are littered around with the essence of a nightstalkers bow. The Guardian would find the remains of Tevis near a ridge with his void light slowly depleting, Cayde would tell you that Tevis would want you to take it and subsequently teach other Hunters the way of the Nightstalker. I don't have time to explain, what I don't have time to understand ''I'm coming home... Ace''