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Name: Lariel
Gender: Male
Race: Dryad
Age: 44 (young for a tree)
Faction: Monster
Appearance: Can shapeshift freely, but he is flammable (due to being a tree). His true form is that of a maple tree.
Personality: Cinnabun. Wants to be friends with everyone.
Backstory: He's just a kiddo who has lots of energy and likes to explore because he's a kiddo.

Name: Nara
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Age: 19
Faction: Village
Job: Guild Receptionist / Ex-Shrine Maiden

Appearance: Silver-white hair with pitch black eyes. Nara has some scars on her left arm and leg, which she acquired because she was once almost eaten by a lion monster when she was young. She tends to keep her scars covered up with ribbons. She has several other old injuries that aren't as easily visible.

Personality: A bit airy and disconnected from reality. "Dangerous" things don't seem to register in her brain, and she has absolutely no sense of fear. Some people have said that Nara is incapable of feeling fear, and her elders at the church often speculated that her close encounter with death as a child completely ruined her amygdala. Weirdly, despite the fact that she was almost killed by monsters multiple times in the past, Nara loves monsters and repeatedly seeks them out. Nara's dream is to "save the monsters", and she came to the Monster Continent to act as a missionary — if wild monsters sign some citizenship paperwork and become subjects of the Empire, they can't be legally hunted by adventurers.

Backstory:
Nara was raised by the church in the Great Central Empire. However, ever since she was small, she loved monsters, and often snuck various creatures into her dorm room. The monsters sometimes attacked her but Nara didn't really care — even though Nara was seriously injured on several occasions. When Nara was 16, she was kicked out of the church and excommunicated because the priests discovered a giant serpent in Nara's bedroom, which is extremely taboo because snakes are symbols of Satan. During the incident, Nara's snake attacked some of the priests, which resulted in some accusations that Nara was a witch. Unable to stay in the Great Central Empire any longer, Nara turned her gaze towards the Monster Continent, which sounded like a perfect place to make her new home.