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Name: Rui Tomoe

Age: 17

Equipment: Barioth Armor, Ambertusk Saber

Kinbeast: Druk (Fulgur Anjanath, Dragon element)

About: A kind lass born and raised in the Silvergale Mountains, Rui always seemed to have a strong intuition when it came to monsters, especially Kinbeasts. Be it a humble Anteka or a mighty Gammoth, she always knew how to read a monster's body language and behavior. Several years ago, while searching the mountains for herbs, Rui was attacked by a Barioth. The monster behaved strangely, and it appeared to be sick and deranged. After a long battle, Rui slew the Barioth... but not before the monster had killed her Kinbeast. Rui immediately returned to her village for help, and was bedridden for weeks afterward. The body of the Barioth was thoroughly examined by researchers from the Guild, who determined that the monster had been affected by a virus of unknown origin. While the body of the Barioth and her Kinbeast were destroyed to prevent potential spread, the Riders Guild compensated Rui for her trouble.

However, the bond between Rider and Kinbeast is a strong one, and it was almost a year before Rui found the will to seek out another Kinbeast. By sheer luck, the girl stumbled on an abandoned nest raided by predators, save for a single egg. When the egg finally hatched, she was more than a little surprised at the birth: a relatively rare monster, a Fulgur Anjanath. Though she was hesitant to get attached to this new partner, the little wyvern's bravery and loyalty won Rui over. Afterwards, she began helping to train younger Riders. Several weeks ago, she received a summons from the Guild, and she and Tekis headed south to the capital city of Milasai.

Name: Katya Milyan
Age: 18
Equipment: Odogaron (ebony) Armor and Blood-Drinker Chainblade
Current Kinbeast: Vasha (Nargacuga, Thunder Element)

About: Sometimes impulsive and brash, Katya's mouth often gets her in more trouble than her fiery temper. She takes after her mother in much those same ways. Her mother was a Hunter, part of the Research Commission that crashed onto Omna Island. As she came to terms with the way the people on Omna lived in harmony with the wyvern that lived there, she tried to learn the ways of the riders - to hatch a companion and understand it. But that just wasn't her way, until she fell for a herbalist that had a Tigrex named Lorel that helped protect him when he'd venture outside the village for supplies.

Katya never really learned patience enough to hatch eggs of her own young. It wasn't something she learned the patience to do for a while. Instead, she inherited her mother's gear and was taught a lot of hunting skills like tracking, trapping, and even combat reflexes to make her skilled enough to avoid attacks from wyvern. She stood a stark contrast to others her age from the village in Ocean's Meadow - a grassland with a view of the southern coast - but didn't let herself get deterred because she wasn't a rider.

She often accompanied her father on his trips to get herbs and whatnot for his shop, working with Lorel to help keep her father safe. It was this level of training that helped her learn to quell the fire within, and to come to an almost harmony with the wyvern partners they could raise. When she was fifteen, Lorel and she helped stave off an attack by a Nargacuga. When the beast retreated, she followed it back to it's nest. Rather than kill the injured beast, she stole one of its eggs and finally understood the importance of patience; with her father's guidance, when the egg hatched, she had a Nargacuga of her own.

In getting a monstie of her own, and raising it to be as fierce as she was, she and it took commission with the local Rider's guild to help keep an eye on the surrounding fields and forests. It lead to them finding strange happenings, and even stranger - monsters in the grasslands and forests that didn't belong there, and monsters she's seen before acting strangely. After narrowly avoiding an attack from one such monster and reporting back, she received a summons of her own and headed north to the capital city of Milasai.