Trivia

• He is currently taking cursive lessons with one of his fellow jadebloods.
• Laydem "ENnuNnciates his words aNnd tries Nnot to souNnd aNNnnoyiNng."
• Despite being an absolute neat freak, Laydem's handwriting is usually quite atrocious.
• Laydem likes listening to upbeat pop songs while sharpening his scythe every other night.
• Having sampled most kinds of blood, he's deems bronze to be the best and jade the worst.

Early Life

Laydem grew up in a small circle of hives with the rest of his jade blood cloister down in the brooding caverns. While he rarely got to see his lusus since he would work for long hours in the caverns, he would be happy to come home and reunite with them. Laydem was fairly tight with the jades in his cloister- one male jade who lead the cloister and four other female jades-but he was closest with the male jade leader. When he was younger, Laydem wasn't aware of how rare male jades were until he heard the other girls mention it offhand. However, he didn't fully realize how unique he was until he was a little older. When Laydem was about 5 sweeps old, he had been following a rogue group of lusi that had been frightened by some drones until he was lead down a dead-end tunnel. Laydem recklessly didn't get any of the other jades of his cloister to help since they were all taking care of the rest of the rogue lusi elsewhere. When he cornered them, he tried to help, but instead of taming them, one rhinophant lusus charged into him, impaling him with its horns before throwing him into a wall to bleed to death. However, instead of passing away, his skin began to glow brightly, illuminating the tunnel and scaring off the lusi. He stood up and noted that the wounds in his chest were healing, then freaked out when he saw his hands were glowing. While trashy romance novels about rainbow drinkers were relatively uncommon, Laydem had seen them referenced a few times online and recognized what had happened to him.

Dissapearnce

Figuring he would be culled because of this new condition, Laydem covered his head with his cloak like a hood and ran out of the tunnel. Unfortunatley, because he was running abnormally fast and wasn't paying attention to where he was going, he didn't notice the trail of wiggler bloodshed he had left in his wake until he had reached the exit and turned around to see what he had done. Revolted with himself, he hid away in his hive, knowing he had to get to the surface to escape the other jades and the drones as soon as possible. After some investigation while the others were still at work, he secured a route out of the caverns and fled to the surface with his lusus. Laydem made his way to the nearby woods to set up a make-shift cave hive where he foraged for fruits and vegetation, rejecting his newfound cravings. Unfortunatley, his isolation was disturbed by a few traveling troll and, assuming the highblood snitches would rat him out to the drones, he reluctantly killed them to ensure his own safety. Laydem was driven into deeper guilt and shame, but took this pain and used it to motivate himself to find ways to tame his own new abilities. It took awhile, but he eventually figured out how to turn off the glow in his skin and got used to his faster running speed. With a better grasp on these perks, he returned to the brooding caverns unannounced a half sweep later to resume work. The other jades of his cloister welcomed him back with tears of relief, thinking he had been dead the whole time. He told them that he had come down with a serious illness that required him to quarrantine, refusing to dilvuge his secret to anyone else.

Land of Marble and Candles

Laydem’s land is the Land of Marble and Candles (LoMaC). While most of the land is mostly comprised of vast stretches of peachy-colored field grass, marble mountains, and monlithic candle pillars that have stood unlit for millenia, there are also a few marble cities scattered across the land. Dark green crocodile consorts inhabit these towns day and night with many different acitvites occuring in both times of day from parades to street fairs to holiday celebrations. Many of the older crocodiles have been noticing a growing apathy amongst their populations, people slowly losing their ability to feel and emote across the land. They hold so many celebrations and parties in an effort to maintain as much emotion and energy as they can, but their efforts are ultimately in vein with the problem continuing to worsen. Some wonder if the denizen, Agape, is experiencing some kind of problem up in their tower, and if the candles that have remained unlit for so long have something to do with it. As the knight of heart in his Sgrub session, it is up to Laydem to help Agape and figure out a way relight the candles to return the light to the darkened land of LoMaC.