From DreyNet

This is the Gedan capital city. It is situated near two long plateaus which flank it to the north and east. This is where the Regents have their seat of power. The Regents are a board of several Geden, most of which have survived the Change. They oversee all other Geden cities from here. Currently their main task seems to be rooting out elements of the Shun-Gede from within their ranks. The Shun-Gede are Geden who have been swayed by Lakruul or human ways to pursue a lifestyle contrary to the age-old Geden ways.

I wanted Caiden to be a sort of culminating point of the story. I wasn't sure what I wanted to happen there. I imagined the humans rallying together and storming the city, but I didn't know to what purpose. Instead, I made it the goal of a holy quest. In the city is a temple dedicated to Gesta. In one of the courtyards is a rope which hangs in midair by some mysterious force. Legend has it that some day, one would come who could climb the rope and one they reached the top, let go and fall up into the heavens. This individual would be the one who could right the wrongs of the day. Many had tried and failed, so the rope became more and more of a novelty rather and the legend became less spoken of.