Answers for August 12, 2026

The Hillbilly

Max Thompson Jr. grew up bricked into a room of the family farmhouse, fed through a hole in the wall, and killed his parents the day he got out. He still crosses Coldwind Farm at a sprint behind his Chainsaw, with Enduring to shrug off the pallet that stops him.

The Hag

Lisa Sherwood was held in a flooded swamp cellar by cannibals who tortured their prisoners, and she pulled free of her shackles to daub ritual symbols in blood on the floor. Those marks became the Blackened Catalyst, and her totems still carry Hex: Ruin and Hex: Devour Hope.

The Oni

Kazan Yamaoka killed his own father in a duel while hunting men trading on the samurai name, and was beaten to death by farmers in a stone mill. Yamaoka's Wrath builds from the blood he collects, then hands him a charge nobody outruns, and Blood Echo keeps the survivors bleeding.

Rebecca Chambers

Rebecca Chambers finished college at eighteen and was the medic on the team that found mutated animals and the walking dead at the Arklay facility. Better than New speeds up whoever she has just healed, and Hyperfocus rewards a clean run of skill checks.

Feng Min

Feng Min left home to get out from under her parents' expectations, lived in internet cafés, and was recruited by a top e-sports team as the Shining Lion. Lithe and Technician are the reflexes of someone who has practised the same input ten thousand times.

Toba Landing

Toba Landing is where the colony ship Huxley Caracas III came down in Dvarka Deepwood after years hurtling through deep space. The advanced civilisation that lived on the planet first was wiped out by something nobody has identified.