If nothing else, something analogous to St. Dismas, some poor bstard caught up in Old Man Malkion's or Hrestol's deaths/executions. The *real* Node founder would have hidden his mundane identity behind the more famous thief's name.
Alternately, there could be a scout character (Viymorni "tribe", probably) who went bad, but not as bad as Vadel, and eventually tried to steal back what the Vadeli took, first, to undo his harm.
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