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.

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.

Later that evening at the meeting, Lind and Kibaou announced the official and formally recognized establishment of the Dragon Knights Brigade and Aincrad Liberation Squad guilds and their respective members, 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, unexpectedly, Asuna. After a brief pause, he declared that aside from the level requisite, there was another condition before either player could join their guild: one would have to register with the Dragon Knights Brigade, and the other the Aincrad Liberation Squad. He 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. When Kirito announced his lack of intentions to join either group, Lind questioned him on his reasoning for why, which Kirito recognized 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 questioned Agil and his friends on their plans of joining either guild, before giving the floor to Kibaou for the rest of the meeting.

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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