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Kale is tall, lanky, and pale, with short, ruffled blond hair and striking blue eyes. His Ulfen traits show in his height and hair color, though that's about all he got from his father. The Varisian side of his blood gives him a soft, hairless face. He's fairly attractive, if you're into that sort of thing. His default expression is somewhat irritated, and he wears simple clothing.

Kale grew up and was born in Sandpoint. He grew up in a fairly religious family devoted to Abadar. His mother was a kind and loving priest, though his father, Osten Porter, was a fairly temperamental and stern man of Ulfen blood. His childhood was simple and easy, mostly due to his father's work as a merchant, which kept more than enough food on the table. Things didn't get difficult until Kale's sister, Lydia, was born when he was about 3. There were complications with his mother's pregnancy, and she died in childbirth.

Without a mother around, Kale had to learn responsibility at a young age, and found himself having to help take care of his sister as he grew older. However, instead of resenting Lydia, he saw her as the last remaining link to his mother. His relationship with Lydia became more and more important to him as he grew older, and his father grew more and more difficult to live with. While he never beat Kale, he would scream and yell at him if he didn't follow his directions to the letter. While Kale clung to his sister after his mother's death, his father clung to his late wife's religion. He'd have his two children perform services every day, and began to raise Kale with the intention of having him go into the priesthood, though this didn't become apparent to Kale until he was in his teens.

Kale didn't want to be a priest. In fact, he'd rather do anything but be a priest, even if it meant being a fisherman for the rest of his life. Despite his late mother's profession, Kale associated religion with his dad and long, boring ceremony. Furthermore, the sea seemed to call to Kale, and he'd spend long hours simply staring at the ocean, watching the fishermen work.

Eventually, Kale made his thoughts known to his father. It didn't end well. They argued for hours, until Kale got mad and lost control of himself. He made a furious gesture with his hand and from it came a ray of ice cold water, which shot through one of the windows and shattered it. His father, shocked, grabbed Kale by the arm and screamed at him to never do that in his sight again. Kale, who was just as shocked as his father, just nodded.

The days after were filled with awkward silences and stern looks from his father. Though the incident had caused Osten to drop the whole 'priest' thing, it was little comfort to Kale, who was now both amazed and frightened at what he could do. He kept to himself for a few weeks after that, coming outside only to get away from his dad. It was during one of his walks through town that the goblins attacked.

Kale was able to hide with one of his friends at their family's house, but he learned after the attack ended that Lydia hadn't been so lucky. His father hadn't been able to protect her, and she was stabbed to death by one of the goblins. This only fueled Kale's dislike for his father, and in the years that followed, he began to experiment with his powers, to spite Osten if nothing else. He began working in the bookstore so that he could have access to basic arcane texts. While the heroes of Sandpoint were saving the town, Kale was wallowing in his sorrow.

It's been only recently that Kale has decided that he wants more out of life than grief and anger. He's made friends with a local girl named Mara, who he wishes was more than a friend. Where he once hid his talents, he now flaunts them in front of his dad. He misses his sister deeply, but the pain has lessened. Osten has come to value Kale more, now that his daughter is dead. He no longer yells at him, but that hasn't stopped Kale's resentment. He's been slowly saving up gold over the past few months, and hopes to move out into a house of his own, away from his dad. Maybe then he can figure out what he wants to do with his life.

Kale is a 'nice guy'. He helps people out because he feels that's what's expected of him, and then later whines about how everyone has it so much better than him. He often does truly want to help people, but his belief that he 'has' to makes it easier for him to become bitter. Everyone else seems to have direction in life. Everyone else is happy. Everyone else belongs. In reality, he's your average, slightly depressive teenager.

Kale likes helping people. He was always the one sticking up for the kid getting picked on, so much so that he'd end up a target as well. He can't stand to see someone in pain. The fact that he really, really wants people to like him only makes this part of his personality shine through more.

However, Kale feels that most other people actually have it better than him. He may not like to see people in pain, but he believes that his good nature automatically sets him below other people. Good guys finish last, right? He struggles with these two sides of himself; the side that wants to give, and the side that wants to keep everything to himself so that he might be able to cling to some bit of happiness. He has issues with guilt; guilt that he has the powers he has, guilt that he's somehow let his sister down, and guilt that he's not doing all he can to be a better person.

Intellectually, Kale is fairly smart. He loves to learn, and tends to look at things from a logical standpoint. When he interacts with people, he's the type to think about the psychology behind everyone's actions. He's fairly creative, but only to the point of thinking up elaborate stories with a character that might as well be himself as the main focus. He longs for something 'more', but he doesn't have the faintest idea of what it could be.