Cayde-6

Lightbearer, guardian, gunslinger, hunter, vanguard. Centuries old, tasked with searching for undiscovered weapons and technology caches, as well as retrieval of stranded human survivors of alien incursions. As a Vanguard, he oversees scouts that perform these duties, and has not often taken to the frontline in recent times. He is apparently well known as a Hunter on his home Earth.

A digitized human consciousness "reborn" into an Exo droid body from the "Golden Age". Possibly the result of his Ghost, Sundance, but that is uncertain. His memory of his human life (and "fleshbody") has been wiped. Has been rebooted six times, resulting in further partial memory wipes and possible memory formation problems.

Hides collected weapons in trapped caches. Hesitancy around responsibility for children. Has lost multiple loved ones. Partial to stories.

Guardians use a "paracausal" energy source known as the Light for "spells", including feats of agility and destruction. Channeling the Light can produce Arc, which is weaponizable. Arc is not available on Earth at this time.

Light is opposed by Darkness. There is a third power referred to as Void.

Ghosts are directly given to Guardians by a dead or dormant being known as the Traveler, which may have triggered the "Golden Age", and was a target in "the Collapse" by a being known as The Darkness. Destroying a Ghost is a prerequisite to permanently killing a Guardian, but to achieve both requires a sustained assault, or the Ghost will regenerate.

Cayde desires to return to his Earth, as the relative peace and security of this planet is seen as a goal to attain for his own people.

Only four known alien species besides the Traveler and the Darkness, each of them hostile. Fallen ("Eliksni") follow the Traveler and attack human survivors, Hive serve the Darkness, Vex seek to rewrite reality, Cabal are a militaristic empire.

imPort point: "Tell me about it. I was on my way to a prison riot out in the Reef. Sounded like a good time. Then poof! I find myself here."