A lot of big organizations had their secrets. This Shinra thing. Clovis Bray. Maybe that's why Cayde doesn't seem terribly surprised.

"Oh, I do. I mean, glowing eyes aren't that unusual," he says, gesturing vaguely towards his own with a wink, "-but if you're not Awoken or Exo or, yeck, Hive, then there is probably a Story behind it."

He shrugs. "Of course, that's only going by things I know. May very well be something common where you're from, but with what you've said, maybe not."