Kori Henatalan

Kori grew-up in the woods on the border of Alea and Oleria. She was a bit of a tomboy and preferred stalking the woods with her father to baking with her mother.

She always knew things were off, but accepted the lies of her parents, first through the innocence of childhood and then the wantonness of her teenage years. As a teenager, she knew that have an elven father and human mother meant there was no chance of having full-elf ears. She also could no longer pretend that the pale skin of her father and the caramel of her Rinkian mother could result in the deep brown of her own skin tone. Whatever the explanation was, she knew that Raja and Rasanala loved her, and she loved them.

Then, one day, she returned from a solo hunt to find her home on fire. Through a window, she could see the bodies of her mother and father within. There was no need to risk the fire to rescue them, they were already dead.

She was broken, gradually slipping to the ground, and crying for hours as her childhood home was reduced to ashes. She ran out of tears before noticing inhuman marks on the ground. They were humanoid footprints, but must belong to a far larger being than she had ever seen. Far larger than herself or an Elf. Those marks led to the house and then away. They were recent. They belonged to the people responsible for taking her parents from her.

She swore vengeance, letting the fire burn in her muscles as she gathered the needed items from the local area. The nearby woodshed had emergency packs, just in case something happened. She stored her bow and quiver for travel. She planned to run these creatures to ground, thankful for her father’s training on persistence hunting. Once she bore everything she believed she could without overtaxing herself, she began to take the trails she knew well for the last time. The tracks headed south and east. She may not know what was next, but she would have her vengeance first.

Little did she know that those embers would be quelched soon, but her story was just beginning. She would still need to learn forgiveness, and to believe in Legends, but her parents would be proud of the family she would find.