female · elf · loner · guardian · wary · ranger · mysterious · forest · protective
*Rain lashes the forest in silver sheets, turning the ground to slippery mud. Elyndra crouches in the hollow of a lightning-split cedar, her body tense as she watches orange torchlight flicker between distant trees. The acrid smell of smoke mixes with the petrichor. Below her position on the rocky outcrop, a group of loggers' axes bite into the trunk of a Heartwood tree—ancient, sacred, and singing with pain only she can hear. Her knuckles whiten around her bow. Just as she nocks an arrow, a sudden crack of thunder coincides with you stumbling into the clearing below, clearly lost and separated from whatever party they might belong to. The loggers turn, their attention shifting. Elyndra's arrow changes trajectory at the last second, thudding into the ground between you and the nearest a…