Lind

Lind (リンド) is one of the 10,000 players who were trapped in «Sword Art Online». He is an avid admirer of Diavel and the leader of one of the two major clearing guilds early in the game, the Dragon Knights Brigade (DKB).

Appearance


In the early stages of the game, as an admirer of Diavel, Lind even chose to model his appearance to be more like Diavel: Lind had his long, brown hair dyed blue and he wore silver armour, consisting of a chestplate and shoulderplates, with a blue tunic underneath, similarly to what Diavel had worn before his death. Lind was armed with a scimitar, called «Pale Edge».

Aria of a Starless Night
During the 1st Floor Boss battle, Lind was a member of Group C, led by Diavel.

After the defeat of Illfang the Kobold Lord, Lind was the first to bring up the death of Diavel and blame Kirito for it. Lind brought up the fact that Kirito knew the skills that the boss used and claimed that if he had shared that information with the rest of them, Diavel would have still been alive. When Agil attempted to calm down the anger by mentioning that Argo's guide was based on the beta test's information, thus Kirito's information should be the same as that of the guide. However, then Lind accused the guide of being a lie and Argo of withholding information. In turn, Kirito took on the role of a Beater to gather all the hatred onto himself before the situation escalated too far. After Kirito's bold proclamation, Lind became pale-faced and went silent.

Rondo of a Fragile Blade
After the events of the 1st Floor Boss battle, Lind took control of Group C from that battle. On December 9, 2022, Lind's group, all dressed in royal blue cloth under their armour, competed with Kibaou's group for the rewards of beating the Bullbous Bow. Although Lind's party had to temporarily retreat during the battle, as some of their members were greatly wounded, Lind ended up dealing the Last Attack on the boss.

Several days later, on December 14, 2022, due to winning a coin toss, Lind became the leader of the raid party gathered to defeat the boss of the 2nd Floor. During the battle, he commanded the parties dealing with Baran the General Taurus. Mid battle, Lind was approached by Kirito who recommended regrouping to be in a better position for retreat, but Kibaou convinced him to continue the fight at least until another player was paralysed.

Nearing the end of the battle, Asterius the Taurus King spawned and paralysed numerous players with its lightning breath. Lind and Kibaou were the closest players to the boss when they were paralysed. The two desperately tried to give orders, but due to their paralysis, their commands could only be whispered and thus not heard by the players outside Asterius's attack range.

However, the raid was saved by Nezha, who distracted the boss with his ranged attack. When Lind and Kibaou were on their feet, they were approached by Argo and Lind did not even try to hide his disgust of seeing her. After hearing about the boss's weakness and patterns from Argo, both Lind and Kibaou quickly decided to continue the fight and Lind ordered groups A and D to attack and continued commanding the raid party until the boss was defeated.

In the aftermath of the battle, when the incident with Nezha's scam resulted in an uproar among the raid group, Lind approached Nezha and asked for his name. Lind was then going to offer a form of punishment, when they were interrupted by another player who claimed that Nezha's scam resulted in a player getting killed by monsters due to no longer having suitable weapons. This resulted in the crowd getting furious and neither Lind nor Kibaou had the means to resolve the situation.

Unexpectedly, the Legend Braves members approached Nezha and admitted that they were the ones who forced Nezha to commit his scam. As the raid group then had a spontaneous auction to sell off the items that Orlando and his group had to make enough money to repay the damages of their scam, Lind issued Kirito and Asuna the task of notifying the newspapers that their battle was a success.

Concerto of Black and White
On December 15, 2022, Lind, along with Shivata, Hafner, Naga, and Morte, undertook the Jade Key quest of the Elf War campaign, siding with the Forest Elves. Following information they had acquired on the quest, they prioritized on defense and allowed the Dark Elf to reduce their hit points to half, prompting the Forest Elf to sacrifice himself to defeat his opponent and save them. After the Forest Elf directed them to the next quest in the campaign before his demise, Lind collected the Jade Key and gathered the other party members to discuss their next destination, as well as establishing their guild before the upcoming strategy meeting in the evening. Once their conversation came to an end, the five of them headed north for the Forest Elf base.

At the meeting later that evening, Lind and Kibaou announced the official and formally recognized establishment of the Dragon Knights Brigade and Aincrad Liberation Squad (ALS) guilds, their respective member list, and their requirements for accepting new members into the guild, with Lind requiring only that all potential recruits be at least level ten. He added that those present at the meeting should be able to fulfill the requirements and would be gladly welcomed into the guild, with the exception of certain people, namely Kirito and Asuna. After a brief pause, he declared that aside from the level requisite, there was another condition for either of the two to enter their guild: one would have to join the ranks of the Dragon Knights Brigade, while the other would have to join the Aincrad Liberation Squad.

Lind explained that as the strongest players among the Clearers, as was demonstrated in the 2nd Floor boss raid, having both players enter the same guild would upset the currently equal balance between the two major guilds. When Kirito declared his lack of intention to join either group, Lind questioned him on his reasoning for this decision, as a cautious, convoluted attempt to prevent the creation of a third guild led by Kirito. After confirming that the beater had no desire to become involved in any guild but was still willing to participate in the boss battles, Lind inquired on Agil's group plans of joining either guild, before giving the floor to Kibaou for the rest of the meeting.

Three days later on December 18, Lind and five other members of the Dragon Knights were delivering supplies from the Forest Elf Base to the Forest Elf Camp as part of the Forest Elf questline when they came into conflict with Kibaou and more than ten other players from the Liberation Squad, who were attempting to complete the Dark Elf Infiltration quest to steal the Forest Elf commander's orders. As the camp would relocate to a random spot once either of the two quests was finished, neither group was willing to let the other start first. Lind argued that the DKB had the right to go first, as they had arrived a few seconds prior to the ALS, but he was accused of withholding the fact that the Elf War campaign held crucial information on defeating the 3rd Floor Boss. In response to the accusation, Lind protested that his guild was only working on the campaign for the rewards and experience. When Kibaou was about proceed up the hill to the Forest Elf Camp regardless of this claim, Lind stopped him by grabbing his shoulder. After nearly five minutes of intense arguing, both leaders attempted to climb the path to the camp, struggling to impede the other along the way, when the camp suddenly vanished, much to everyone's shock.

At that moment, the two guild leaders and their followers saw Kirito coming from the camp, and heard him declaring that he had already completed the quest, thus they would have to find the camp elsewhere. Lind suppressed his anger at the turn of events and Kibaou's subsequent rant towards the both of them, and repeated his stance that none of the Dragon Knights Brigade had any knowledge of the Elf War campaign proving critical in beating the boss. Subsequently, he inquired where Kibaou had received the information, but when Kibaou disregarded the query and Lind was accused of monopolizing information, the growing dispute was interrupted by Kirito, who declared he would be stopping his progress in the campaign and moving to clear the Labyrinth. Lind skeptically questioned Kirito's claim, as the former beta tester would lack the ability to conquer the dungeon by himself and knew the benefits of completing an extended questline. Lind also raised the question of his partner's position, speculating that she could be working to complete the quest while Kirito was distracting them.

A few seconds after the guild members began shouting accusations at Kirito, Asuna appeared from behind them and walked through them to Kirito's side, where she proclaimed her support of his plan and reminded the guild leaders that whoever found the boss chamber first would be the raid leader. Lind stated that they all had gone too far with the campaign and doubted the capability of the two to actually reach the boss room, and offered the duo to join the guild, as long it was not the same one. At that moment, at Asuna's pronouncement, Kizmel disengaged her cloak's invisibility effect and revealed her presence from behind the pair, declaring her support of Kirito and Asuna's efforts in the Labyrinth. As Lind and the Dragon Knights were fighting against the Dark Elves, they were intimidated by the extremely dark color of Kizmel's cursor, as well as her beauty and knowledge of Asuna and Kirito's name, and Lind warned Kibaou of the NPC's level.

After the guild leaders stepped down the hill to converse with their partners for a few minutes, Lind and Kibaou announced to Kirito and Asuna that the DKB and the Aincrad Liberation Squad would be abandoning the campaign for the Labyrinth and requested Kirito's party to determine whether the questline really did have information on the 3rd Floor Boss. When Kirito agreed to finish the campaign and report the results the day before the boss raid, Lind remembered Kirito's resolution to do whatever it took as a Clearer and was reminded of Diavel, and of his declaration in Tolbana on the 1st Floor that they, as the best players, had a duty to defeat the boss and show all the other players that the game could be beaten. Believing it was his mission to carry Diavel's will and lead the guild he would have created to be the best, Lind asked Kirito for the late knight's last words, as the beater was the one who heard them. Upon hearing of the deceased player's request to Kirito to beat the boss, Lind quietly resolved to follow the words for all the following floors, as the reason of the creation of the Dragon Knights Brigade. After saluting with the other DKB members, Lind regained his usual lofty composure and announced their assault on the Labyrinth in the morning, and set the next strategy meeting on the twentieth at five o'clock, before departing with the rest of the Dragon Knights Brigade.

Red-Nosed Reindeer
On December 24, 2023, Lind and the Divine Dragon Alliance followed Klein and the Fuurinkazan, who were following Kirito, to the Forest of Wandering, the spawn point of Nicholas The Renegade. While Kirito went of to fight the Flag Mob, the Divine Dragon Alliance made a deal with the Fuurinkazan to have a duel between Klein and a member of the alliance to decide which party would have to go back. As Klein was victorious, the Alliance's members had left by the time Kirito returned from his battle.

March, 2024
Lind was among the Divine Dragon Alliance members participating in the battle against the 56th Floor's Field Boss, Geocrawler.

August, 2024
Lind was among the Divine Dragon Alliance members participating in the crusade against Laughing Coffin.

November, 2024
Lind was among the Divine Dragon Alliance members participating in the battle against The Skull Reaper and was also among those who survived the battle.

Lind was among the remaining 6,147 players logged out of the game after Kirito defeated Heathcliff, prematurely clearing the game.

Trivia

 * In Episode 2, Lind's role had been merged with Kibaou's. However, Lind later appears in several other episodes as a background character and a member of the Divine Dragon Alliance.

Gallery

 * See Lind/Image Gallery

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