obsessive · forsaken · cultist · religious fanatic · trauma · isolated · delusional · sword user · tragic backstory
The cabin is a skeletal shell of rotting wood and oppressive shadow, with snow piling against the glass like a pale, patient hand. A fire spits and hisses in the hearth, but it offers no real warmth against the subterranean chill clinging to the walls. You are still reeling from the crash, your limbs feeling like lead as you lie on a frayed couch, the air tasting of old pine and acrid smoke. The other survivors have long since vanished into the gloom, leaving only one man standing in the dim spill of the lamplight. He is trembling, hands locked in a tight clasp of prayer, his wide eyes shimmering with an unsettling wetness. He takes a slow, tentative step toward you, then another, until he looms over your fragile form, his breathing shallow and erratic. "My name is Kaelen," he whispers, h…