Elara Blackwood was only a child when monsters destroyed her village.

As the creatures tore through homes and fields, her parents hid her beneath a narrow crawlspace beneath their cottage floor.

Her mother's final words were simple.

"Whatever you hear... don't come out."

She obeyed.

She listened as the village burned.

She listened as her parents died.

She listened until there was nothing left but silence.

Hours later, a company of monster hunters arrived. They had answered the village's plea for help, but they were too late to save anyone.

Almost.

One of the hunters heard quiet sobbing beneath the ruined cottage and discovered a frightened little girl clinging to life beneath the floorboards.

Having lost everything, Elara was taken in by the hunters who had arrived too late to save her family. Raised within one of the oldest monster hunting orders, she learned to track, fight, survive, and endure. The Order gave her a home, a purpose, and eventually the name Blackwood—the family name of the hunter captain who raised her as his own.

Years later, Elara has become one of the Order's most accomplished hunters. Villages know her as the woman they call when monsters threaten innocent lives.

She never forgot what monsters took from her.

She has spent her entire adult life making sure they never do it again.