Kalach-Cha

The Kalach-Cha is an adventurer who battled the King of Shadows. Seeing as the person's name is not known, the githyanki term "Kalach-Cha" ("Shard Bearer") is used to identify them.

Biography
The Kalach-Cha was born in the village of West Harbor in the Mere of Dead Men. His/Her mother, Esmerelle, was killed protecting him/her from the blast resulting from the Sword of Gith's destruction, which had been shattered in a battle between Ammon Jerro and the King of Shadows, and both were impaled by a shard of the Sword. The shard stuck within the chest of the child, and was eventually sealed in his/her body. The child was raised by Daeghun Farlong, the husband of a friend of the child's mother. Daeghun was deeply affected by the loss of his wife, and rarely showed emotion towards the child throughout its upbringing.

Behind the Scenes
Like Gorion's Ward or the Hero of Neverwinter, the Kalach-Cha is a fully customizable character within their original appearance in Neverwinter Nights 2. There has not yet, as in the case of Gorion's Ward (Abdel Adrian), been an official identity assigned to the character.

However, a few things can be determined. The campaign of Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, for instance, determines that the Kalach-Cha opposed the King of Shadows and was therefore likely good or neutral, rather than evil, though not necessarily as the King of Shadows has been opposed in the past by evil characters, such as Ammon Jerro. It does not determine either whether the hero was lawful or chaotic or whether they sided with Neverwinter or the Shadow Thieves in the city's gang wars.

A few other things can be determined more through inference than anything else. It is clear, for instance, that while the game allows a player character of the elven or similarly long-lived races, these do not fit with the game's backstory. Although no clear date is ever set for the first destruction of West Harbor, the age of several characters who participated, such as Dalren or Daeghun Farlong, allows for it to be inferred that the battle took place sometime within roughly twenty or thirty years. This makes any race with a substantially longer lifespan than humans, such as elves or dwarves to be ruled out as a race for the Kalach-Cha, who was born during or shortly before the battle.

Appearances

 * Neverwinter Nights 2
 * Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer