Pre-Made

Characters
you will find a printed character sheets in a separate file, complete with stats
and equipment, describing five pre-generated player characters. They are
designed as a group who share a common goal: to better understand the
darkness of Davokar. Aside from this, they have their own personal goals, and
it would be fair to assume that they will not always see eye-to-eye…

Their plan is to venture into the blight infested

parts of Davokar, searching for samples to study
and ancient knowledge buried in ruins from the
days of the Symbarian Empire. Their individual
NOTE: If you are fewer than five players, just pick
reasons for wanting to do this vary, but officially
one each, or roll dice to decide if you cannot agree
their main ambition is altruistic in nature: they
who gets which.
want to contribute to making Ambria safer and
more prosperous, to the benefit of all.

Elma/Elgai of House Ardagal,

Common Goal
As a collective, the pre-made player characters have
joined together hoping to learn more about, and
possibly even understand, the dark forces plaguing
the Davokar region – that which Ambrian scholars
call Corruption. This is not a new phenomenon to
the Ambrian player characters, but it seems to be
stronger and materializing in different ways, com-
pared to what they are used to from old Alberetor.
The Knight
You lost everything in the Great War – your family,
your estate; you even desecrated your House’s good
name by deserting from an already lost battle
near the city of Kandoria. Since arriving in the
Promised Land three months ago you are determi-
ned to redeem your honor. You also seek to better
understand the evil forces that destroyed your life.
You will never flee again, never back down in the

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 face of danger or horror. At least that is what you
tell yourself...
You are in Thistle Hold intent on launching a
series of expeditions into Davokar, with the primary
aim of searching out locations suffering from the
blight of corruption. To aid you in your ambition
to study the forces of the Eternal Night, you have
assembled a group of like-minded explorers. After
having known each other for a couple of weeks, you
are soon ready to embark on your first excursion.
Personal Goal: You want to restore your personal
honor and, in time, see the status of your House resto-
red. Before the end, you hope to have lands to govern
and children (your own or adopted) with whom you
can start rebuilding the name of Ardagal once more.
For this to be even remotely possible, you must
conduct yourself in accordance with both laws and
the highest moral ideals – you cannot afford being
associated with anything or anyone that does not
live up to this standard.
Hador/Halea, The Witch Hunter
Born after the end of the Great War you have
lived your whole life in the slowly dying land of
Alberetor, moving further and further north in
the hunt for fertile soil and fresh water. With your
father and older siblings dead, it was up to you to
feed yourself and your sickly mother – something
you managed by hunting prey on the estates of
already migrated nobles.
When your mother perished a couple years ago,
her confessor took you in. This was not purely an act
of kindness; the theurg was also after your hunting
skills to combat the growing threat from undead
and resurfacing cultists in the area. Finally, the
situation grew unmanageable and the two of you
decided to join the wave of refugees heading north.
Needless to say, learning that the powers of the
Eternal Night are also spreading in the Promised
Land was something of a blow. Both you and your
spiritual teacher immediately vowed to do whatever
you could to stop Ambria from meeting the same
fate as the realm you left behind.
Personal Goal: In truth, you don’t care about
“understanding darkness.” You already understand
it well enough: it is evil; it must be rooted out and
destroyed, or it may infect the bodies and souls of
everyone in this new land. You have seen it happen
again and again, down south. Your know-it-all com-
panion, the high and mighty theurg (another player
character, called Inder/Indra ) who regards you as
a mere servant, refuses to listen. But maybe some of
your new acquaintances are of a different mindset?
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Ulifos/Oulia,
The Treasure-hunter
You were born eight years ago, in Thistle Hold where
your mother worked as a servant in the house-
hold of Erok the Dark. From early on, the famous
treasure-hunter and his colleagues were fascina-
ted by your un-goblinlike smarts and your sharp
senses. Sure, they treated you like a beloved pet,
but you were there to observe them in action, quick
to pose questions, learning more and more every
day – about the making of drugs, about fighting
with agility and smartness.
A couple of months ago, Erok caught you sniffing
around in his cellar vault, fiddling with the many
mystical and other nice, shiny treasures stored in
there. He kicked you out, and maybe that’s for the
best. Using your sharp intellect, with a mixture of
truth and lies, you have managed to convince a noble
human that you are an experienced wilderness guide.
The knight (the player character Elma/Elgai) wants
to go out in the woods searching for knowledge; you
are joining the expedition for very different reasons…
Personal Goal: You want treasure – shiny, valuable,
amazing treasure! In time, you will build a vault just
like Erok’s, and you will have a nice house where
your mother can live, waited on by underpaid
human servants, except when she is baking you
her famous bark biscuits. Nothing and no one will
hold you back!
Inder/Indra, The Theurg
When someone asks you, you have a hard time expla-
ining why you chose to remain in the dying Alberetor
when most others emigrated north. Maybe it was
your love for the land, maybe your unwillingness to
admit defeat? Or maybe, it was curiosity – a desire
to study and gain a deeper understanding of the
enemy, the Hordes of the Eternal Night? Whatever
the truth may be, together with a young hunter you
took under your wing (the player character Hador/
Halea), your final years in the Dying Land were spent
combating and studying the spreading darkness.
About six months ago, you finally abandoned
your beloved sun temple – partly since a horde of
deadwalkers was drawing near, partly because of
rumors trickling down from the Promised Land:
the new home of the Sun God’s people is also expe-
riencing a spreading darkness; maybe you and your
hunter companion can use your knowledge and
skills to help stop the plague?
You are in Thistle Hold now, where you have
teamed up with a peculiar noble, called Elma/Elgai
of House Ardagal, hoping that Davokar’s fabled cor-
ruption will help you gain a better understanding
of the deep shadows that are stretching across the
land of Queen Korinthia.

Personal Goal: You cannot say that the years of

study and reflection have led to any revolutionary
insights regarding the forces of evil, but deep
down you are convinced that the teachings of the
Lawgiver are correct, expressed most clearly by
Father Abramar in the holy book, The Lightbringer:
“Darkness thrives in the wild and untamed; to root
out evil, humanity is tasked with taming, ordering
and cultivating nature.” This is what you intend
to prove, and then you are determined to lead all
loyal followers of Prios in battle against the wilds!

Friend, The Wizard

Some years ago, maybe five, possibly a dozen, you
came wandering out of Davokar. You were empty,
confused and very hungry, and there it was, in a
forest glade – the solitary cabin of what came to be
your Master. He took you in, gave you a hot meal and
called you Friend. Actually, you still don’t know who
he was, why he lived alone so close to Davokar and
what (if anything) he was hiding from. But he gave
you a language, a purpose, something like a life. And
he taught you things, mystical things, before he died.
Accompanied by your flaming servant Flaro, you
have made your way out into the big, scary world
beyond the glade, and recently arrived in the settle-
ment of Thistle Hold. On the road, you learned that
people don’t generally like you very much, because
you are different. And others that look like you make
fun of you for being small and scrawny. But a kind
human named Elma/Elgai (another player character)
has offered you companionship and possibly a new
purpose in life: studying the darkness of the forest,
to learn how to fight it. He calls it “evil,” but you are
not so sure. For some reason, a part of you always
feels sorry for those who dwell in the shadows of the
wilds. To you, they seem angry, not evil.

Personal Goal: With Master dead, your first goal is

to learn about the world. Sure, Master taught you
well, about history, mystical objects and practices,
reading and speaking various human languages.
But when it comes to handling real-life social situ-
ations, you are nothing but a child.
Later, you must solve the mysteries of Master
– who was he; why did he avoid contact with other
humans; why wouldn’t he teach you any mystical
powers, only rituals? You don’t have much to go on,
but maybe it has to do with those “They” he often
mumbled about, saying: “They are the real monsters,”
“They are awakening the dark,” “They cannot see that
fighting only makes it worse.”

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