Edden: the Hollowborn armor trail and rescued memories
The whispering helmet
A helmet without a body locks its eyes on the Hero and mutters a phrase, repeating it until the words can be written down. It seems to be offering a clue to the rest of its missing armor. The search leads along the footsteps of its charge, Edden, who had been hunting for a fellow Hollowborn. As the Hero collects the pieces, the armor recounts the earlier journey that left them scattered.
The first clue looks toward a castle of bones, where the Hollowborn Edden sought might have been forced to serve among its guards. A remembered conversation supplies the armor’s purpose. Lae had warned Edden that the Hollowborn were not invincible and that Kasebel had used a favor on his behalf. Lae wanted him to wear the armor, but Edden had already rushed away. The Hero’s present search follows the fragments left by that earlier hunt.
A skull passed between thieves
The trail turns from bones toward vampires. One had used the missing Hollowborn’s skull as a drinking cup, apparently hoping it might help vampires become human again. Shadowslayer D told Edden that the skull had already been stolen. Another vampire became the next lead, with Sanguine joking that the thief was trying to restore their hair. By the time Edden reached that trail’s next stop, a necromancer had taken the skull and fled toward BattleOn.
A conglomeration of bones beneath BattleOn seemed another possible resting place for the stolen remains. Dr. Neelo told Edden that the Hollowborn he sought was not part of that creation. He questioned the search among lesser threats: Hollowborn were rare and valuable, so anyone who coveted one might be powerful. The Hero retrieves another armor piece while learning how each failed lead redirected Edden’s original search.
Advice from the shadows
An infernal menace became the next suspect. Lae followed Edden into the dark and again found him without the armor. Although busy with the Hollowborn Oracle, Lae offered a new suggestion: look among the Legion. A clue involving the Legion and the sea led onward. The armor recalls an unnamed Legionnaire concealing their Hollowborn nature. The Legionnaire warned him about prying into Dage’s business and offered a hunch to follow.
The trail continued beneath the Dark Alliance, toward a fiend that had stolen armor pieces. The Legionnaire said this Underfiend had already been dealt with when Malgor tried to draw their leader to his side, yet its soulless ghost remained a nuisance. The memory ends with a question about how different the two searchers really were from that lingering ghost. It is another part of Edden’s earlier journey that the Hero uncovers through the armor.
The wrong dragon
The search next turned toward the inverted guardians of an ethereal tomb. Edden spoke to the armor directly, remembering that he had died in a place like it before becoming Hollowborn. The thought of rotting there was a nightmare and helped explain his search for his lost brother. He began to regard the missing Hollowborn as a rare treasure, asking who else might covet both treasure and immortality.
A dragon associated with death and rage near water proved a mistaken trail, but left the final armor fragment to recover. Edden theorized that repeated thefts had stripped the skull of its identity until its captors saw only treasure. With the armor completed, the Hero is directed to the lair of the dragon embodying selfish desire for meaningless wealth. The way behind its golden hoard leads to Edden himself.
The elf in the ice
The Hero finds Edden in Greed and thaws him out. Freed from the trap, the treasure hunter catches his breath and thanks the rescuer. He recognizes that his armor had been looking for someone to help him. He introduces himself as a Hollowborn elf whose memory is unreliable, and explains that artifact hunting stirs recollections of his past even as his excitement carries him into danger.
Edden says his first life ended on an expedition to Zisk’ur Hein, the Shadow Fiend’s realm. His fading memory came from age: time wore at his elven mind more readily than his body. Unwilling to die seeing himself as a stranger, he called the Shadow Fiend’s name and received an answer. Becoming Hollowborn did not restore his memories, but his new brothers and sisters gave him a home.
Armor meant to be worn
Kasebel the Gatekeeper finds refuge for Hollowborn who have lost their homes or been cast out. Edden does not know whether he still has a home to return to. Kasebel asked Lae for a favor on his behalf, and Lae created enchanted armor to serve as a bodyguard on expeditions. Edden says it was supposed to teleport him to safety if he became trapped. Because he was not wearing it, the suit had to use its own pieces as a trail for someone else to follow.
With Edden and his treasure found, the completed armor prepares itself for another hunt. In the meantime, it offers to protect the Hero on future journeys. Its account ends with a wish for someone who will actually wear it into dangerous fights instead of obvious traps, and a joke about Lae being the father of a suit of metal. The armor has found help for its charge and now offers that help in return.
Lazure’s honor
Edden names the Hollowborn whose skull he sought: Lazure. People hoping to replicate Hollowborn resurrection killed him before he could fulfill the drive that had given him a second life. His fellow Hollowborn cursed the skull to protect it from further defilement, but its value carried it into a dragon’s hoard. Edden wanted to retrieve it to preserve Lazure’s honor. The protective curses instead caught Edden, leaving him frozen until the Hero’s rescue.
Afterward, Edden offers rewards for more treasure from the cave: rings among the cursed hoard, and diamonds trapped within Ice Crystals. He questions why dragons hoard things that could be shared. The gems also give him a way to repay the Hollowborn who helped him find Lazure’s skull. Travel and treasure hunting suit him better than fighting, so paying his companions’ bills is one way he can help.
Five runes for a locked chest
Edden also remembers a chest he found before being frozen. Five runes are needed to open it, but he has misplaced his list of their locations. The first lead points to a demon in the Yokai Isles who once fought for Jaaku. His request sends the Hero after the runes, with instructions to check each collected rune for the next clue. A July 2024 announcement describes the chest as vulnerable to destruction if opened without all five.
The completion text reveals a chest full of gold and a weapon that Edden offers the Hero as a fair share of the find. The sources name the prize differently: the July 2024 announcement advertises Artifact of Mystery weapons, while the captured quest record lists Krenos Spirit Katana. Their exact relationship remains unestablished. The supported outcome is the completed five-rune request and Edden’s offer of treasure, alongside the earlier rescue and the honor he sought for Lazure.