Rolf

Rolf is a young human hunter in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). Ragor, a friend of the Inran guide Fauna among the hunters outside Aquila's walls, recommended him to the band as a guide who knew the land well; he could not defend himself in a real fight, Ragor said, but knew how to run. Rolf came carrying a hunting bow and a bone knife, and was hired for a daily wage with food and drink. Ragor told him to take the band where they wanted, not to ask too many questions and to slip away if danger came.¹²³

The road north

Rolf rode his own horse, and was seen to be an easy and skilled rider. He knew the paths off the main road that horses could take, and the way to Uzun İskele. He said that he and his fellows stayed outside the city wall by the hunters' huts and hunted, ranging over places a few days away.⁴⁵⁶⁷

He said he had heard that further inland from the coast grazing beasts such as deer were dying, and that the elders of the hunters' guild had told the young not to hunt there; horses brought over, he added, got stomach aches from the local grass. He spoke too of an old dwarf hunter who had crossed the sea and worked with a native companion, and of a rumour a few weeks old that the two had seen strange things in the forest, spirits or demons; he offered to introduce the band to the dwarf on their return.⁸⁹¹⁰

At the village he went off for two hours to hunt small game and came back with rabbits. He did not ask who the wounded man they had come for was, and hung a lantern from a stick to light the way on horseback. On the road back, seeing the Legion's fleet, he was glad and uneasy at once.¹¹¹²¹³

The ambush

When constructs sent by Deimos ambushed the band on the way back to Aquila, Rolf took the wounded mage Manfred out of the fight. Unable to bring him into the city unseen, he left him at the Hunters' Shelter outside the northern wall, where the band met Ragor and the guide again and returned the horses.^14151617