Name: Kraw'sa
Gender: Male
Age: 120
Species: Elder Raven. These ravens are all but extinct in our world, but in ancient days they were common companions of witches and the damned. These ravens are intelligent, and some even manage to communicate in human languages in a crude combination of croaks, rattles and caws, if you have the knack for understanding them. Elder ravens are not immortal, but ageless, and do nut die unless killed.
Family: A slew of annoying cousins who haven't learned respect yet. Most of his family was killed by the predators whose prey the ravens had eaten. Most ravens do no last long here.
Personality: Kraw'sa has seen it all, and nothing phases him any more. He has learned callousness and acclimatized to loss. He watches the innocent enter and waits till they die. Then he feeds. He warns, sometimes, those he thinks might listen; he gradually learned not to bother. Kraw'sa's modus operandi is to insult and be sarcastic, to laugh because his heart is gone, so whatever pain he feels can now longer be released as tears. He's the warning voice, the watching eyes, and the final benediction. Death, here, may not be permanent and is never honoured, but perhaps there is some comfort in knowing that your blood and bones go to nourish a living creature who is not yet cursed. Your energy will live on in the belly of a bird who is thankful for your unwitting gift. His thoughts and mumbled half-words over the dead are his greatest secret: he speaks a blessing and does his best to commit the soul of the deceased to a better place.
History: Kraw'sa was born in a belltower in a prosperous church. His flock fed him on worms and the delicious treats the bellringer sometimes shared, and somehow (miracles of miracles) almost all of his nestmates survived. He remembers this time fondly. Then the decay began. The precarious peace and holiness of the church and its surrounds was eaten by the dark. Then, when the church fell, he watched as the kindly priest fell beside it. He learned the holy words and kept them secret inside his mind, but learned to live in this new world. He ate offal and cursed meat. He ran from the creatures that now lived in the town. He nested underneath the tangled corpse of the bell-ringer, shrouded in his own ropes. He survived. He cared for his nieces and nephews after the last of his flock was just a little too slow, or just a bit unlucky, or went just a bit mad. Now he's here and he's not planning on going anywhere.
Current Goal/Purpose: Kraw'sa survives. He runs from the monsters, laughs and rattles at the innocent, and just continues on. What keeps him going, decades beyond the deaths of the last of his old flock? Bitterness, perhaps, or perhaps for those glimpses of goodness in the fog.
Appearance: Kraw'sa is a raven. He's glossy, well-fed (better not to think what on) and has managed to keep most of his wingfeathers. What more could a bird ask for? (Actually, it might be nice if he wasn't perpetually covered in a layer of condensed mist and grave-dust)