Laken

Laken is a Future Legion commander and Seraphic Grand Master whose care for his daughter Ada coexists with ambition and deception. He rescued her from her father’s experiments, raised her and gave her cybernetic implants that she credits with saving her life. Unwilling to leave his only family behind, he took her into the past despite a warning.

His leadership of the Seraphic Order conceals service to a different purpose. He pretends to oppose Dage while using the Order to free Dage’s cursed soul shard, expecting him to conquer Lore. When Dage refuses, Laken seeks that power himself. Dage attributes the destabilization of the two souls sharing Laken’s body to the resulting stress.

His relationship with Ada determines the cost of the conflict in different endings. In the main ending he asks her to strike him rather than attempt to heal him. A hypothetical ending instead has her sacrifice her soul to save him. A separate future Laken, who never traveled into the past, offers to lead the freed Future Legion.

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Sources

AQW Wiki: Laken NPC · AQW Wiki: Ada NPC · Laken’s deception and confrontation · Laken and Ada’s farewell · Laken’s two souls remembered