There is a story I need to tell you. Itās a story that involves not only me, but many others. Over the past couple weeks I have spent a great deal of time listening, watching, and at times speaking. And now, after witnessing the whole of what Iāve seen, I have come to the conclusion that this post must be written. For it is through the enforcement of silence that the bad actors in this situation control their victims, and I cannot remain silent anymore.
Kale Aideron is a serial sexual harasser, and not only have the moderators of Gold & Glory <G&G> willingly enabled his behavior, but they also have used manipulative abusive tactics to silence and control their membership when they try to speak up or get out.
In this post, you will see a great deal of screenshots and testimony. These have been shared with permission.
To begin, I am going to walk you through Kaleās behavior and break down his pattern. And as this post continues, I will discuss how the G&G moderators enabled him, then break down the behavior of the G&G moderators themselves.
[As a note this post contains descriptions of sexual abuse and harassment]
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If y'all werenāt already aware of why Kale Aideron has the rep he does, and admits he does, or why he is disliked in general, this is a complete post with EXTENSIVE evidence and explanations about his sexual harassment and manipulative behavior. This post also includes evidence and explanation on the leadership of the FC G&G and how they facilitated his behavior and acted on their own as a heinous environment
I just want to say, please believe these ladies, because they are telling the truth. I have had near identical experiences with Kale as Sylb has described. With Kale and I both being very active RPers since the beginning 2.0 and both running events and FCās, Iāve bumped into him a lot, worked with him on an event, and known him for a very long time. While weāve never been particularly close, when we got to talking, it was immediately a discomfort to me. He would ask about my thoughts on ERP and my approach to itāseemingly fishing for me to tell him I wanted to ERP with him. He was always dissatisfied with my answers and pressed for more details and more explanations. He also began to randomly ask me really specific questions regarding how I would feel on certain situations with my expertiseĀ āas a woman.ā It always seemed like he was trying to get me to agree to a certain viewpoint to help him justify something. And rarely would I express to him the opinion he wanted to hear. As Sylb says, heād seem a little disgruntled and abruptly change the subject. It always felt like he was poking at my boundaries, but I didnāt budge on them, and even got a bit snippy at times when I was frustrated with his questions that always felt like they had some ulterior motives. This pattern continued for months. I donāt know if this turned him off or if it was just coincidence, but he began speaking to me less and less, and I was A-okay with that. Meanwhile, I heard of how he treated a couple other women in the community, and I heard him vaguely mention his bad reputation once or twice (a reputation I figured heād probably earned) in the context of him claiming to have improved. I see that improvement obviously didnāt happen. Iām disappointed to hear there were even more women heās creeped on, disappointed to find out this behavior has gone on since back in WoW, but most of all disappointed to find out trusted and respected people in the community enabled this. I have done events with Gold and Glory (as recently as last week) and know a lot of great people there. I had no idea this was happening and itās really disheartening Ultimately, I never cut ties with Kale (though maybe I should have to spare @its-the-val-pal all my bitching whenever Kale pressed his luck with me lol), because Iām very fortunate it didnāt escalate quite to the levels of these other stories. To me, he was just a creep barking up the wrong tree; something Iāve sadly dealt with enough times before and was confident I could handle. The more I brushed him off, the less he messaged me, so I didnāt see the need for further action. But I fully understand and support anyone else who suffered his behavior to do more than that, to block him, to avoid him, to report him to whoever can hold him accountable. To me, the most unsettling part of this story is how someone who was understandably trying to do just that was treated because of it, especially by people who acted to her face as if there were no concerns on their end.
With all these other updates of creeps returning to the game, itās worth noting Kale is still playing and has namechanged to Khaleed Quartzwall.
Iām resurrecting this post from the grave because this player is still around and still doing this shit as Khaleed Quartzwall. Ask me how I know! Just kidding, I bet you can guess.
Hi Theo (astralera),
This is you right?
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Youāve got a lot of nerve trying to weaponize this post against me when you yourself donāt even agree with any of it. I was upfront and honest with you about everything when we started to RP. You were accepting and for you to throw it back in my face is disgusting. It is is absolutely abhorrent you would try to use the experiences of others (who you laughed and jeered at) to attack me.
It has been almost 3 years, and I wanted to say that I acted on what the community called me out on by not having a single negative testimony to my name. Indeed, the only other thing on this tumblr blog is the original apology from January 2019. Every new prospective long-term friend I make in FFXIV, I encourage them to Google my in-game name to have a read of Ojeneās original post and decide for themselves whether they want to associate with me. This is how you (Theodora) discovered this OP in the first place. The fact I am reblogging the original post that called me out should hopefully be a clear indication of my transparency on this topic.
I am sorry that our friendship didnāt work out and things just seemed to go sour because of differing personalities or expectations. However, this is unacceptable, so I will let others see what you originally thought of the OP way back in June 2021. If you didnāt want to RP or PvE with me anymore, you just had to say so, not resort to this.
Later,
@kommanderkale I know you thought this was a cute response, but the truth was that I didnāt get the full truth until recently. Certain things have come to light that made the original post much more understandable to me.
You really should include the parts of your screenshots where you āexplainedā things to me to make the OP seem unreasonable which prompted some of my doubt. I trusted your information which I have come to find out was untrue. I am pretty sure that anyone who has ever extensively dealt with you knows what it is like to be lied to and manipulated.
Addendum: The termination of our contact was clear prior to this, so please do not act as if you were unaware of me no longer being interested in RP or PvE any longer. You were already blocked on Discord following our final conversation.
To anyone I doubted, I am sorry that I did and I will own that mistake (no matter how misled I was by the guilty party), but I am pretty sure all of you with experience understand what it is like to deal with him and his endless attempts to violate boundaries. If anyoneās curious, you can hit me up. Weāll chat.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
You know, when I saw these additions cross my notes I didnāt feel a need to comment. I donāt actively post on Tumblr much these days, and by the time I saw the conversation it had run its course. But then on 12/1, I received this:
The post Kale (Khaleed) linked to me is from 11/13/2021 (just a few days after the above conversation), but Iām not going to dignify it by responding directly to it. Instead you can find it in screenshots below the āread moreā link.
Whatās truly remarkable about this to me is that three years later, in everything Kale (Khaleed) has just said and done heās repeating the exact patterns we identified in the original call-out post. Iām not surprised to learn that heās still up to his old tricks, given the fact that heās been doing this over and over for years, but I do think itās important to point out how his actions today repeat the same cycles, which I will do past the jump.
The fact that this man continues to accuse me of āopportunismā is absolutely revolting. I have already made my apology to those I disbelieved; what āopportunityā does this man think I am seizing by speaking up?
Oh, itās the famous āwomen who claim to be victims just want attentionā. Of course it could never be that I spoke up at great personal risk of this kind of continued harassment and smear campaigning from someone who has proven himself for years to do exactly that to anyone who has cause to feel badly treated.
I put my trust in someone who did not deserve it, who then went on to exploit that trust by constantly and repeatedly battering at my boundaries. The fact that I received this vitriol from this man for merely reblogging a post and adding that he was still up to his same old tricks (if it is not obvious to everyone reading at this point) should be more than enough to prove that he was scared and worried and absolutely rushed to smear my name and throw doubt on me.
What he doesnāt understand is that I donāt fucking care. Itās not about me. Itās about those I didnāt believe who deserve to have their stories shared and to have support in that regard. @diskwrite-ffxiv has done a great service in taking the time to put all this together. I am personally grateful for what they have done and I encourage anyone to read their thoughtful assessments of the matter.
It doesnāt matter what you think of me. If merely agreeing with someone elseās opinion after seeing the behavior firsthand was enough to cause this man to do this to me, I can only imagine what else he is capable of.
Pretty sure making the premeditated choice to take screenshots of a conversation rp partner taking your side so that you can use it to discredit her later when she leaves you is called entrapment, Kale. Cropping your side of the conversation doesnāt make it less obvious.
Glad to know you havenāt changed one bit.
Sorry you had to put up with him, astralera.
No, dude. She didnātĀ āleaveā me. Iām the one that cut things off with her and put her on block after saying I couldnāt foresee anything improving. Youād know this, if @astraleraĀ posted any actual evidence of sexual harassment rather than just write a whole lot of nothing 3 times.
Every time I engage with this, I draw attention to the original post. Itās the only thing on this blog. Iām not even denying anything in the 3-year-old OP. Iām specifically highlighting that @astraleraā had absolutely nothing to do with it. If she did, sheād post receipts already.
Thereās a difference between someone who engages in sexual harassment because they are sinister, plotting, and conniving versus someone who engages in it because they canāt read the room, pick up on social cues, and respect boundaries. Frankly, Iām not intelligent enough to be sinister anything.