kai, on the other hand, fit half a dozen. desire, shapeshifting, dance, even journeying....
we settled on artificial intelligence, faerie queen, luck, music, and passion. kind of a lot for one person to bind, but any less feels like something is missing
we could probably drop music and be fine, though. kai is more of the musician than kai is

nima was pretty obvious. sorcery and time, of course, and given cer more futuristic associations network made sense as well

knives—cities, protection, and, since we're not sure exactly what's what of these three, one of either murder, sword, or vengeance

alkali, probably artifice, health, and journeying, if we had to pick three. artifice is a bit clunky for what we're trying for here, but intoxication is the only other close option and that's definitely not right

medea? bow, desire, and vengeance

crows: birds, engineering, luck, theft. exactly what you'd expect

our dear little cain is....predictable enough. deception, fire, and peak human are the most fitting

mel, mel, mel
mel is probably either artificial intelligence, endurance, fear, shapeshifting, or endurance, fertility, journeying, sun. we might be able to narrow this one down more, but we don't really want to

updated list for Kai:

we didn't change Kai much; still artificial intelligence, faerie queen, luck, and passion.
Kai is artificial intelligence, knowledge, music, and shapeshifting.
and Kai, of course, has the words of dance, faerie queen, madness, and theft.

if we're not using concept words here, the layout ends up as:

kai—journeying, luck, passion
kai—knowledge, music, shapeshifting
& kai—dance, madness, theft