Kaling

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Kaling
Title	Apostle of Gerand Darmoor
Hometown	Odium
Gender	Female
Race	Sage (Fox Anima)
Affiliations	Gerand Darmoor Gerand Darmoor Apostles Elders of Grandis (formerly)
Minions	The Four Perils
Enemies	Sages of Grandis Adversary Maple Alliance Hoyoung Lara
Status	Deceased (Lore) Fightable (gameplay)
Name (Other Servers)
KoreaMS	카링 (Karing)
JapanMS	カリーン (Karīn)
ChinaMS	卡琳 (Kǎlín)
TaiwanMS	咖凌 (Kālíng)
MapleSEA	Carling
Voice Actors
GlobalMS	Michelle Marie
KoreaMS	Yeon-woo Kim
ChinaMS	Zhang Wei

“Once I've got my eye on something, I never let it out of my sight... No matter where it may go.”

― Kaling

Kaling is an Apostle of Gerand Darmoor and a former researcher of Odium, as well as a defective Vessel. She is also a collector of monsters and magical artifacts.

History

Past

Kaling was a fox Anima who was chosen by the will of the world to aid the elders of Grandis. Imbued with the divine blessings of the Overseers, Kaling ascended to sagehood and received a nearly infinite lifespan. Kaling became a researcher in Odium and aided the elders of Grandis with their experiments to fuse Vessels with Godspheres in order to turn them into Adversaries, who would then fight against the Ancient Gods. Kaling's talents were recognized by the elders, with Zigang - the leader of the elders - taking her on as his protégé. By the end of the war, the elders began seeking a Vessel to turn into an Adversary and defeat the last god standing. Though some Vessels appeared amongst the researchers, many believed that Kaling, despite her talents, would become a defective Vessel. A researcher named Aroa, who was close friends with Kaling, warned her that the experiments to become an Adversary were brutal, and that she may feel unending pain or even experience death as a side effect. Aroa also warned her that the fatal flaw of Adversaries created in Odium was that they would lose their humanity and forget their memories and their feelings for loved ones, reduced to only caring about becoming an Adversary and fulfilling their assigned destiny. Despite knowing the risks, Kaling gladly agreed to undergo the experiments, as she had a strong desire for peace and had full faith that the experiments would bring about that peace. However, though Kaling underwent the brutal experiments, she was ultimately deemed a defective Vessel.

Over time, Kaling slowly began losing herself as a consequence of the experiments. Aroa soon discovered that Kaling had created four mechanical monsters imbibed with energy. Kaling explained that while the researchers had Vessels and Godspheres, they lacked the power to fill the Vessels in order to make them stronger. She revealed that while her four machines were small, they could amass great power by consuming other small monsters, which could then give rise to an extremely powerful Adversary. Despite Aroa and the other researchers recognizing the signs of contamination in Kaling, they turned a blind eye to her experiments, refusing to believe that the contamination could affect even the best of them. Towards the end of the war, the contamination deepened inside Kaling, erasing her morality and causing her to fall completely to evil. After she released her four monsters - Hundun, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Taotie - into the world, her creations began consuming fiends and terrorizing the entirety of Grandis with their impunity. Aroa soon confronted Kaling and ordered her to terminate her research immediately, claiming that it was a complete failure. Aroa explained to Kaling that her monsters had become known as the Four Perils, and that they were causing great harm upon the people of Grandis. However, Kaling retorted that Grandis was already embroiled in war and chaos, even without her creations. She then claimed that once the Four Perils consumed enough monsters, she would combine them and create an extremely powerful Adversary who could defeat all the Ancient Gods and win the war.

Before Kaling's experiment could finish, however, the Adversaries defeated the last Ancient God at the site where the holy city of Cernium would one day be founded. At the end of the war, the elders and the researchers realized that they could no longer turn a blind eye to Kaling's madness, and so they had her seized from Odium. As she furiously demanded to be let go of, Zigang stepped in and ordered for her to released. Upon seeing Zigang, Kaling addressed him as her master and asked him to tell them what he had always told her – how he had always known just how much of an outstanding researcher she was. When Zigang said nothing, Kaling asked him why he was looking at her like that, reminding him how he had always, without any doubt, believed that the world needed her research. However, Zigang then asked her what she planned to do after finishing her research. When Kaling remained silent, he sharply asked her what she was planning to do with her beasts in a world that had barely just ended one war. When Kaling was still unable to reply, Zigang declared that she had created monsters, adding that the blame lay with him, not with her. Kaling appealed to Zigang, calling him her master, but Zigang merely declared that he was disavowing her, and that she was no longer his disciple. With that, Zigang turned his back on her and walked away. Refusing to give up, Kaling continued calling after him, reaching out with all her might towards the back of the man who she realized was no longer her master, but none of her cries were answered. Kaling was then sealed away by Tai Yu, another defective Vessel, trapped under the hardest and heaviest rock in Odium, which Tai Yu bound in place with golden chains and countless sealing talismans. Tai Yu also sealed most of the Four Perils, though the elders took Hundun, the strongest of the four, and secretly fused him with the World Heart before imprisoning him in the laboratory, where he served as the power source for the floating citadel. The researchers also used some of Kaling's old research to create the Constables - mechanical dolls made in the researchers' image from before the contamination had touched them, which they left behind to maintain the laboratory in their absence.

Meeting the Investigators

Over the eons, Kaling's seal gradually began weakening until she was found by the private investigators of Cheong-woon, who had been tasked with resealing what they had believed to be a beast sealed within. To their surprise, however, they found not a beast, but what they believed to be a little girl. Kaling, whose right eye had turned black and orange from the contamination, weakly crawled out from beneath the rock. One of the investigators wondered why there was a child sealed inside, to which another investigator supposed that she might have been a sacrifice to the beast sealed within. Unable to sense any power inside Kaling, the investigators decided to rescue her from the seal, introducing themselves as the ones who had been tasked with resealing the scourge of Grandis. Upon hearing that the investigators were working to reseal the scourge of Grandis, Kaling immediately realized that they were tracking down her robots, the Four Perils. She realized that if she were to stay with the investigators, they would be able to lead her straight to her creations. In her mind, she addressed Zigang and told him that her experiment was not yet over, and that she would prove to him one day that it wasn't a failure. Upon seeing her expression, one of the investigators pointed out that she was making a strange face again and called her a little kid. Kaling immediately replied that she wasn't a kid, though the investigator merely teased her, claiming that despite pretending to be an adult, she only ever responded when they called her a kid.

One of the other investigators scolded them for teasing her and calling her ‘kid' when she had already told them her name. They also added that if they planned to make fun of Kaling for her height, then they ought to pay her for it. The investigator who called her ‘kid' apologized and told her that they would give her something better than money. They then gave her new clothes, including a black bowler hat, noting that it seemed to be a good fit. They explained that though she would normally need to make a name for herself in the village or pay a fee, they would nevertheless accept her as a new private investigator because she had already suffered enough. One of the investigators then noted that the sleeves on Kaling's new clothes were too long, covering almost the full length of her arms and hands. However, the investigator who had given her the clothes explained that children naturally grew, and that she would need longer clothes if she wanted to wear them for a long time. Though Kaling was irritated by the exchange, she nevertheless chose to remain silent, realizing that she needed to use them in order to find the Four Perils and finish her experiment.

Lost Feelings

Over the next few months, Kaling continued staying with the investigators and accompanying them on their jobs. Soon enough, the investigators realized that her one-year anniversary with them was coming up. Hoping to introduce her to the other investigators in Cheong-woon later on, the investigators planned to finish their job to seal the scourge of Grandis by following a new lead that they had just discovered. One of the investigators then gave Kaling a flower and explained that it was a small gift in advance for their one-year anniversary together. As Kaling smiled softly at the flower, they explained that once they finished the job, they would give her the real gift that they had prepared. One investigator explained that it was a gift that she sorely needed, laughing that they hadn't expected that she wouldn't grow at all, even after a whole year. They added that they had worked hard to find something that would complement her outfit, though another investigator told them to stop talking before they ruined the surprise.

Soon after, the investigators arrived at the site where Qiongqi was sealed. To their shock, however, the seal on Qiongqi had degraded so severely that he had managed to break free. As the Peril killed them all, the investigators urged Kaling to run away and save herself. In the chaos, Kaling accidentally crushed the flower that they had given her. She then found a small, wrapped present that had fallen out of one of the investigators' hands. Kaling opened the present and found that it was a small, blue button meant to fasten the long clothes that the investigators had given her down to her proper size. She realized that they had been right about everything – that it was something that she needed, that it would suit her perfectly, and even that she had wanted to open it without any hints as to what was inside. Amidst the bodies of the investigators, Kaling fell to her knees in guilt over the fact that she had merely seen them as tools to get what she wanted. As she stared sadly at the button in her hands, emotions from deep inside her that had long since been erased by the contamination slowly emerged to the surface.

Joining Darmoor

At that very moment, however, Gerand Darmoor found Kaling and approached her, explaining that her research was needed to create a new Adversary. In the wake of her grief, hearing that she and her research were necessary to someone was exactly what Kaling had needed to hear the most, and so she had readily agreed to become his Apostle without hesitation. Because of Darmoor deliberately enabling her hardwired obsession with fulfilling her purpose, Kaling's contamination remained. In the back of her mind, Kaling would later note to herself that there was a chance that she might have been reunited with those feelings again if Darmoor hadn't appeared before her. After becoming an Apostle, Kaling was given a portion of Darmoor's own Transcendent powers in order to help her create a Godsphere. She then traveled to the Information Broker Bureau and told the investigators about what had happened. Despite not knowing who she was, the investigators believed her story upon seeing the sadness on her face while delivering the news about her colleagues' deaths. Upon seeing how trusting they were, Kaling thought to herself that the people of the Bureau were just as foolish as the investigators who had taken her in. With the Bureau's resources, Kaling was able to find Taowu, the second Peril. With only Taotie and Hundun left to find, Kaling continued using the Bureau in order to complete her experiment. Because of the brutal experiments that the elders had subjected her to, as well as sealing her away, Kaling developed a deep hatred for the sages of Grandis.

The Sage's Apprentice

Kaling soon encountered Hoyoung when he came to look for information on the fiends that had escaped upon unsealing Taotie. He greeted her by calling her a kid, which annoyed Kaling, who snapped that she was simply short. After interviewing Hoyoung, Kaling concluded that he was a rookie and told him that she was only looking for qualified candidates. Hoyoung protested that he was capable of handling a case, to which Kaling replied that he could pay a fee of 100 million Mesos in order to expedite his application. Hoyoung attempted to negotiate by asking her to assign him cases, with the commission being put towards the expedite fee, but Kaling denied him, explaining that it would be against the rules. Hoyoung then decided to trick her by telling her that he would need to turn her down and hoped that another legendary sage would help her. This intrigued Kaling, and Hoyoung followed up by taking out his Master's fan. Kaling immediately recognized the fan as authentic and agreed to hire Hoyoung. When he asked why she had a sudden change of heart, Kaling explained that no ordinary sage could have gotten their hands on such a fan. However, she told him that she would still charge him the expedite fee and told him that he could pay it down on his own time.

Over the next several months, Kaling assigned Hoyoung cases to investigate as the boy began to make a name for himself. Eventually, Hoyoung encountered a Monster Rat, which sought to use his rat army and conquer all of Grandis. Hoyoung spent all his savings in order to have all the private investigators defend the town, unaware that the investigator code required them to help the town anyways. After resolving the incident, Hoyoung decided to leave and spent the last of his money on buying information about Grandis and Maple World. Though Hoyoung left Grandis, Kaling continued keeping an eye on him, as she had sensed Taotie sealed within him and wanted to add the fiend to her collection. Eventually, Hoyoung finished capturing all the fiends at the Temple of Time, allowing Taotie to regain his full power. As Hoyoung cautiously asked what came next, the ground began rumbling and Taotie told Hoyoung that they weren't alone. Hoyoung asked if it was another fiend, which Taotie confirmed, though he admitted that it wasn't one that he had consumed, and that it felt strangely familiar. Unexpectedly, Kaling appeared before them and told them that she was a collector of monsters, and that she had her sights set on a particular monster in the possession of someone else. Hoyoung realized that she was referring to him and told her that Taotie had already swallowed the monster that she wanted. Kaling grew irritated and told him that it was Taotie himself who she was after, claiming that he deserved someone who wouldn't hesitate to unleash his destructive powers. However, Hoyoung refused to hand Taotie over, claiming that despite Taotie's destructive powers, he was Hoyoung's friend, which surprised Taotie.

Frustrated, Kaling used a mysterious power to create a demonic hand that engulfed Hoyoung and began draining his life force. Taotie asked Hoyoung why he didn't just let her take him, to which Hoyoung replied that he couldn't afford to let Kaling seize control over his destructive power. He asked Taotie to help him, but Taotie explained that he was still bound inside Hoyoung, and so he couldn't use his powers against her. However, he recognized that Kaling was using another one of the Four Perils against them and told Hoyoung that he could cancel out its power, though he couldn't guarantee that Hoyoung would survive the process. Hoyoung told him to do it and Taotie used his powers to free them from Kaling's grasp. However, Kaling recognized that Hoyoung was barely able to stand after Taotie had used his powers, and so she decided to press her advantage and moved to attack. To everyone's surprise, however, Hoyoung's Master appeared as an astral projection and blocked Kaling's attack. Kaling was shocked and angered that a true sage had appeared. She declared that she could easily defeat his astral projection, to which the Master then used his powers to teleport Hoyoung to the Hermitage.

The Bell Mysticant

Shortly after Lara left Narin Village, Kaling arrived in order to follow leads of a mysticant in the village. After she learned that the brush mysticant had been destroyed, she began to investigate and learned about the existence of the bell mysticant. Some time later, Lara and Gri decided to meet at Dalbourde Studio in order to look for clues about the bell. Lara arrived early and encountered Kaling. As they began talking, Gri arrived and warned Lara to stay back. He confronted Kaling, explaining that the villagers had described how she had been snooping around the studio for days. Kaling replied by asking what the two of them had done, as it was something to take note of when a mysticant was destroyed. She asked to see the bell, but Gri told Lara not to give it to her. Lara asked Gri why he was so worried, as Kaling was a fellow Anima. However, Gri told her that Kaling wasn't an Anima, as he couldn't detect an Anima scent from her. Kaling then unleashed one of the Four Perils and had it close its fist around Lara, completely smothering her. In its grasp, Lara sensed an inauspicious power that sought to swallow the entire world. She called upon the spirits to help free herself from Kaling, who recognized that Lara's bell had been created by the sages of Grandis. After cursing the sages for their continued interference, Kaling decided to leave, though she warned Lara that she always took what she wanted in the end.

Yum Yum Island Experiments

After the Black Mage created the Arcane River, Kaling used the plethora of Erdas as an opportunity to create a Vessel and a Godsphere. On Yum Yum Island, Kaling hoped to fuse the Erdas of the most powerful heroes and villains of Maple World in order to create a Vessel. Some of her creations were Caster, a fusion of Von Bon and a chameleon (implied to be one of the chameleons in Von Bon's garden), Muppy and Bappy, fusions of Pierre and parrots, and Puptail, a fusion of Horntail and a dog. While wondering what she should place the power of the Godsphere into, she looked down at the button that the investigators had given her. Believing that it had no other meaning, she decided to use it for her experiment, telling herself that she was only doing so because it was something that she could handle the best. She mass-produced her button Godspheres and attached them to her makeshift Vessels, leaving all the residents of Yum Yum Island with blue buttons. However, all her efforts were met with an endless string of failures, even with the most powerful beings in Maple World. Soon after, the Adversary arrived in Yum Yum Island while traveling through the Arcane River and helped the residents of the island investigate the source of the experiments. Their investigations led them to realize that people of Yum Yum Island emerged from flowers, and that they had been created for a greater scheme. They eventually encountered a massive creature created from the Erdas of Afrien. After defeating him, the Adversary also encountered an even larger flower than the one containing Afrien, revealing that an even more dangerous creature had already hatched. Later on, Kaling arrived and found that the flower containing the Afrien-like monster had already bloomed, and that the creature had been defeated. She then decided to move on to her other schemes, as she believed that all the experiments - even the one who had gotten closer to the Godsphere than anyone else - were ultimately failures.

Karote

During a debriefing, Oz reported that the Blaze Wizards had expanded their search for the perpetrator of the Erda experiments. Their investigations in Grandis had led them to conclude that it was the work of Kaling, and that they had no knowledge of whether she was affiliated with Gerand Darmoor or not.

Odium Invasion

After Nicky Angler successfully manipulated the Adversary into destroying Guardian Kalos and opening the door to Odium, Senya and Laha Angler led the Angler Company fleet to invade the laboratory. Soon after, Darmoor told her that the door to Odium had been opened. He then ordered her to bring both the Vessel and the Godsphere before him, if they could stand up to the Adversary. Kaling successfully managed to enter Odium and opened the door to the laboratory, where she was furious to discover that the reason why she hadn't been able to find Hundun was because the elders had forcibly fused him with a Godsphere and enslaved him into becoming the power source of Odium. Kaling was then confronted by Laha, who claimed that the Angler Company had been promised anything related to the Adversary experiments, including Hundun. However, Kaling grew annoyed and replied that she had already claimed anything to do with the Four Perils. As they had come to an impasse, Kaling and Laha began fighting over Hundun. However, both of them were furious to discover that the Adversary had taken the Godsphere from Hundun while they had been fighting. Kaling attempted to stop the Adversary, but Tai Yu, who was helping them, took them to Shangri-La, the realm of the sages. Soon after, Senya arrived with her father, who apologized to Kaling for Laha's behavior. In order to appease her and maintain his relationship with Darmoor, the Angler Father ripped out Laha's mechanical heart and crushed it before allowing Kaling to take possession of Hundun. Having given up on Taotie because of his affiliation with Hoyoung, Kaling seized the last of the Four Perils before vowing to take back the Godsphere in order to complete her experiment.

Shangri-La and the Three Perils

Following the invasion of Odium, Kaling met with Gerand Darmoor and explained everything that had happened at the laboratory. Darmoor summarized her report and noted that the Godsphere had fallen in the hands of the incomplete Adversary, and that all that was left was the empty shell of a Peril. He added that with the Godsphere missing and the Peril incomplete, it didn't seem possible to complete a Vessel. He explained that if it were simply a matter of power, there would be no issue, as it wasn't difficult to address that deficiency. However, he told Kaling that if the Godsphere was missing, then she would fail no matter what she did. He noted that Kaling had reported that the Adversary was headed for Shangri-La, adding that it was quite convenient, as he had a debt to repay the elders. He told Kaling that as she had a long history with the elders, he would give her a chance to settle her grudge with them. He added that she wouldn't need to worry about getting into Shangri-La, as the barriers around it would open from the inside. He then turned to Hundun's corpse, which Kaling had brought from Odium, and noted that as Hundun hadn't been born with life, there would be no rest for him in his end, which he added was quite pitiful. Darmoor then used his powers to resurrect Hundun for Kaling, who then thought to herself that no one would be able to stand in her way anymore. She vowed to complete her experiment and, recalling her meeting with the Adversary, reaffirmed what she had once told them - that once she had something in her sights, she would never let it go.

Soon after, several elders who had chosen to side with Darmoor attacked the Four Symbols defending Shangri-La in order to destroy the barriers around Shangri-La and allow Kaling and her invasion army to break in. To weaken the barriers, Kaling decided to give her contaminated Godsphere buttons to the elders. After being invited into Shangri-La, Kaling met with Shensung and gave him a button. Shensung examined it and mockingly noted that Zigang's disciple had made something quite interesting. He then asked Kaling whether she had benefited from being an Apostle of Darmoor, though he then snidely asked why Darmoor had reached out to them again when he already had such a ‘talented' researcher at his side. At Kaling's silence, Shensung laughed that it was a shame that her skills had been so underappreciated by both Darmoor and Zigang. Kaling angrily told him to watch his mouth, reminding him that he wouldn't be able to get what he wanted without Darmoor's help. She told Shensung that Darmoor had already told her about his goal – to escape the will of the world – and added that it would be a waste to blow away his chance to make a deal with Darmoor with his bad attitude. Shensung replied by telling Kaling that she had no idea what he was carrying inside him, explaining that he would do anything to know the feeling of liberation from being freed from his sense of duty imposed by the will of the world. He noted that Darmoor was quite clever, and upon recalling that he was also a Transcendent, he laughed that he must be a friend to them as well. After Shensung disappeared, Kaling cursed him and noted that he wasn't the one who had been recognized by Darmoor. She spoke to herself that Darmoor was the only one who had recognized her research and cursed the Adversary, claiming that if it hadn't been for them, she could have been reborn as the Adversary that Darmoor wanted.

After the elders used the buttons to contaminate the Munbangsawoo, the four calligraphic tools that the elders had used to paint Shangri-La, Kaling began sending her invasion army into the realm. Meanwhile, the elders began attacking the Four Seasons in order to further weaken Shangri-La's barriers, allowing Kaling to unleash Qiongqi, Taowu, and Hundun, who proceeded to devastate the realm. Meanwhile, the Adversary, the Glory Guard, and Gaon - the Symbol of Winter - attempted to defend Shangri-La and returned back to Shangri-La's Winter, which was the only barrier that hadn't yet fallen. There, they discovered Kaling, who noticed the Adversary and told them that between the impudent Angler child and a rebellious Hundun, she had been kept quite busy since the invasion of Odium, with even the elders, whose faces she had never thought she'd see again, standing in her way. However, even in spite of them all, Kaling angrily told the Adversary that they were the one who had impeded her the most. She reminded them that she had warned them not to get in her way and asked whether they even realized what they had done. Growing increasingly angry and desperate, Kaling explained that she had only barely managed to gain Darmoor's trust, and that the Adversary had single-handedly managed to make her lose it all. Furiously, she yelled at the Adversary and demanded to know what they had done with the Godsphere, ordering them to hand it over to her immediately.

However, the Adversary plainly refused and explained that they didn't care about the demands of an Apostle of Darmoor, nor did they care about what Darmoor had intended when he had broken their Seal Stone, or even that he had been the one to change their destiny, as they refused to falter. They explained that all that they cared about was protecting the world that they and their friends lived in, and so they refused to allow her to take it. However, Kaling laughed scornfully and asked if they were really trying to compare their Seal Stone, which she called a human-made imitation, to the World Heart that they carried. However, she noted that despite the Seal Stone being a counterfeit, it had still been infused with the Overseers' power and asked if they had felt like a hero while carrying something containing the power of a god. She then angrily told them to get off their high horse, revealing that they weren't the Adversary that Darmoor was looking for. Though the Adversary was shocked by her words, Gaon urged the Adversary not to listen, as they were merely the words of a contaminated researcher.

Just then, Kaling fused with Hundun, Taowu, and Qiongqi and unleashed the full extent of her power. The Adversary faced Kaling in combat and, after a fierce struggle, they managed to defeat her. A wounded Kaling collapsed before the Adversary, shocked that someone like her – an Apostle hand-picked by Darmoor to serve him, and one who had performed the most perfect research – could have lost. Suddenly, the Adversary's Godsphere began glowing with a divine light, having sensed Darmoor's Transcendent powers inside Kaling. Kaling immediately recognized the light coming from the World Heart as it began draining her and her monsters of all their strength. Kaling, broken and defeated, collapsed in despair at having lost all her power and effort in a mere instant. Severely drained, Kaling weakly looked up at the Adversary and asked how it was that they got to keep their humanity and shine so brightly without having had to give up anything at all. She then outstretched a hand towards the Adversary before collapsing in pain and scattering into ashes.

Kaling's Last Thoughts

After Kaling's death, her contaminated buttons continued worsening the contamination inside the elders and the researchers. The Adversary and Gaon began destroying the buttons, thus allowing them to see Kaling's memories of her past. After finding the last button, they witnessed the memory of Kaling meeting with Shensung, who had told her about wanting to escape the will of the world. Suddenly, the memory changed itself and caused the sky to turn dark, just as it had been when Kaling had invaded Shangri-La. The silhouette of Kaling suddenly reshaped itself into her fully-powered appearance from when she had combined with the three Perils. Just then, Zigang appeared and confronted the memory of Kaling, claiming that he had come to put an end to things. Kaling immediately recognized Zigang, who noted that from what he had just heard, the reason why the other elders had betrayed Shangri-La was because they had wanted to escape their sense of duty given by the will of the world. He added that he hadn't expected that a Transcendent like Darmoor would be capable of doing so, though he noted that just as the Adversary had said, a lot had changed in the outside world.

He then explained that he had come to realize that he had gotten too comfortable looking at the world the way that he had known it. He told Kaling that in order to keep the long-established line that the will of the world had created, he had turned a blind eye to many things, and that one of those neglected things now stood before him. He then approached Kaling and told her that it had been some time before admitting that he should have talked to her real self, rather than just the thoughts that she had left behind. The memory of Kaling recognized that he really was Zigang and noted that now, after so many years had passed, he was finally looking back at her, rather than turning his back on her. After a pause, she admitted that it hadn't been his fault, as everything that she had done had been her own choice, from sending her robots into the world, to unsealing the Perils, to using the investigators. Because of that, she told Zigang that she didn't need sympathy, as she didn't regret anything that she did. Suddenly, she noticed the button and noted that she wished that she hadn't seen it. She explained that if she had known that she would be confronted with it, she never would have left her thoughts behind. Suddenly, she felt the presence of a light and wondered whether it was the light that she had missed. Just then, a powerful light - just like the light from the World Heart – engulfed the area. When the light dissipated, the memory of Kaling had vanished and the contamination of the seasons had been lifted.

NPC

Cheong-woon Valley

Kaling
Quests involved	[Hoyoung] An Investigator's Life for Me!
Location	Information Broker Bureau

Yum Yum Island

Kaling
Location	Cutscene

Odium

Kaling
Location	The Wellspring

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  NPC Portrait of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  NPC Portrait of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  NPC Portrait of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Kaling Maple Guide icon
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  Kaling Boss UI artwork
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  Kaling Boss Entry UI artwork
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  Kaling's Soul Effect
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  Magnificent Kaling's Soul Effect
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  Kaling Soul Collector Artwork
  No one will disturb me anymore.
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  Kaling Soul Collector Artwork
  (all souls added)
  Research requires absolute dedication!

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  Boss Phase 2 Cutscene
  Hehe, no one's gonna stop me this time!

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  Boss Phase 3 Cutscene
  My experiment was not a failure!
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  Prototype Art of Kaling
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  Artwork of Kaling
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  Artwork of Kaling
• Artwork of Kaling (Kaling's Special Training event, Shangri-La)
• Artwork of Kaling (Kaling's Special Training event, Hotel Arcus)
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  Mob Sprite of Resolver Kaling Familiar
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)
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  Artwork of Kaling (Anniversary: Maple University; MapleSEA only)

Videos

메이플스토리 GLORY 티저영상 (2019)

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MapleStory Glory: Hoyoung Cutscene

【CMS V200】来《冒险岛》体验画卷世界桃源境里的春夏秋冬吧！

Trivia

• The first hint that Kaling was an Apostle of Gerand Darmoor was that the Apostles' leitmotif/theme plays during her appearance in Hoyoung's final quest at Level 200. This BGM is also used when Havoc, Darmoor's Apostle of Lightning, reveals his true form during the Cernium storyline, as well as when Dr. Y extracts Luska's death during Kain's storyline.
• Kaling shares a likeness with Neopolitan, a supporting character from RWBY, an American anime web series.
• Although Gri believes that Kaling is not an Anima, it was revealed in the Shangri-La storyline that the elders, the researchers, and the Four Guardians were all Anima before being chosen by the Overseers to conduct their research. It remains unknown why Gri believed that Kaling is not an Anima, although it is possible that the Anima chosen by the Overseers were infused with divine energy, given their long lifespans and their power, which Grendel claims is comparable to that of an ancient deity in Lara's class story, making the sages a higher form of being. Another explanation is that Gri sensed the contamination inside Kaling, which masked her nature as an Anima.