Hester Wyrrekul

Hester was born shortly before the civil war of Beranroet was finally settled. Her name "Wyrrekul" was one granted to all the war orphans left in the aftermath of the war. She lived as a child, starving and thieving, but by the time she was old enough to be drafted by the army, the king suddenly appeared and unified the Cradle under one ruler. To the child who grew up in war, it was difficult to handle the transition into peace, and as a result she followed the rumour that before he ascended the throne, the king had left the Cradle and travelled about the rest of the world, deciding to do the same. Unfortunately, Hester was younger and considerably stupider than her adventuring predecessor, and found it difficult to adapt. While her life had been hard, she had been a child, and her cunning had been poured into thieving and scavenging. Hester never experienced the bloodshed and trauma of war, and was comparatively naive. Upon escaping the Cradle, she ended up being held prisoner by the first people she met - a gang of robbers. She was used as bait for highway robbery, and as a servant in camp. By the time she was fifteen she'd been used in the murder and robbery of countless people, and become worn down by this life, and realised the way that the men of the gang were looking at her had started to change in dark ways.

She made the decision to seduce one of the vice leaders, and spent months earning his confidence as his woman, before slitting his throat one night and stealing the small secret fortune he'd been building up from robberies. The gang found what she had done, and chased Hester for eight days before she hid inside one of the ruined dungeons of the Ancients. Forced to venture deeper into the dangerous ruins, she eventually fell down a pit and passed out, exhausted and starving. When she awoke, she was in an ancient library, wherein was a solitary guardian, Azr'oth. The guardian had been keeping watch over the library for countless years, and while it's duty was to kill any trespassers, it had become deeply lonely over the years. It healed Hester, fed her when she awoke, and slowly learnt her language. Two lonely people, one tired and traumatised, the other having been alone long enough to have gone insane. They quickly found an equilibrium of madness in one another, and become dearly close friends.