I play them in turns, but let's imagine that they travel together.
Krampus (or Malfias - the name given to him at birth) was born in the suburbs of Calimport. His father was a soldier and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, and often trained with his son. Mom was a herbalist and healer.
One day, returning from one of the tasks in the ruins of Dark Calimport, the father brought a screaming package - it was a tiefling baby. He said that their detachment had recaptured it from several ifrits! Where and why they were taking her, he never found out. The little girl is completely red. And her skin glowed with a strange reddish light. Later this glow disappeared. The girl was named Orianna, and she became Malfias's adoptive sister.
From early childhood she was smart beyond her years, learned to read and write from her mother, knew the names of almost all herbs and stones, and seemed to find a common language with animals. Malfias became better and better at wielding weapons.
The children grew up and practically did not feel that they were not relatives to each other.
When Malfias turned 16 and Orianna turned 9, it was a very hungry year. My father left and didn’t come home for days. One day, in the middle of the night, people in dark clothes broke into their house. Malfias, who rushed to defend his parents, was hit on the head with all force, he flew against the wall and lost consciousness. Little Orianna saw all this from under the bed, where she managed to hide.
The parents were taken away. Later, the brother and sister learned that their father had hidden some of the money in order to at least feed the family. But one man from the detachment pawned it to Pasha. No one knew what happened to the parents next.
When the children ran out of tears, they had no choice but to go and hire themselves into the service of Khemed Pashar, a rather ambitious and greedy Pasha, one of those who picked up ragamuffins on the streets and used them for his dirty criminal deeds.
Orianna and Malfias grew up carrying out dangerous assignments. Then their new nicknames stuck to them - Krampus and Lynx. One was Strength, Optimism and Courage, the other was Wisdom, Cunning and Dexterity.
One day they were sent on a mission. On site, it turned out to be a shelter for tiefling orphans. Several kids became unwitting witnesses to the robbery. Orianna and Malfias had to kill the rest of their squad - they chased the children!
That same night, brother and sister left the city, miraculously escaping from Pasha’s people. When the danger was over, they set off on a journey to Baldur's Gate…