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DaeJin Moon (Sarah Robinson)
Female Half-Elf Ranger
You’ve lived your whole life in the Bronzewood Lodge, a small community of woodsfolk, druids, and rangers about two hours from the village of Diamond Lake. You’re 32 years old, but half-elves are longer lived than humans, so in relative terms you’re still in your early 20s. Life in the lodge was great until about a year ago, when your human mother (also a ranger) died while hunting in the forest. The other rangers who were with her claim that she died when a tree fell on her out of nowhere, but they’re very quiet about the whole incident, leading you to believe that there’s something more to the story that they aren’t telling you.
You’ve never really had a relationship with your father, a civilized elf named Kaleceth Evelion who lives in Diamond Lake. Your father works as an assistant to Ellival Moonmeadow, one of the few elves in the muddy village and the only nonhuman among the clutch of a half-dozen mine managers who control the commerce in Diamond Lake. Moonmeadow is known around town as “The Prince,” since he is a minor noble from the distant elven realm of Celene, which is so fabled it might as well be imaginary as far as you’re concerned. According to your mother, your father never wanted anything to do with you, and you’ve never met him.
When she died, a friend of hers and a fellow ranger, a human man named Merris Sandovar, took you under his wing. A few years ago, he left the Bronzewood Lodge to work for an old friend in Diamond Lake’s garrison, but he still visits about twice a month, and he’s invited you to visit him in the garrison on a handful of occasions.
Last time you were there, you met a young human man named Dram Cicaeda. Dram is training to be a scout for the soldiers at the garrison, and the two of you became fast friends thanks to your common interests. Since then you’ve ventured into Diamond Lake a few times to have drinks with Dram at a dragonchess parlor known as Lazare’s, where you’ve also come to know a friendly dwarf merchant called Gar Blitzhame.
A few days ago, Dram invited you to join him, Gar, and several people you have not yet met to explore an abandoned tomb a few miles from Diamond Lake. Dram says that the place should be loaded with treasure, but that it’s in wild country where your skills could definitely come in handy. The group plans to meet at an abandoned building on the grounds of a tapped mine a few miles from the tomb, and from there they plan to investigate this “whispering cairn.” You were pleased to be invited, and are eager to see what the day will hold in store.
--Erik Mona