Harlan Stone

Born into the Ursine Elders in Mordent’s outer wilds. A coordinated flood — orchestrated by House Naeveth through the Order of the Waning Circle — swept him away as a child. He grew up in the flooded city with no knowledge of his lineage.

Became a homicide detective. His partner, Maren Sable, was the closest thing to family he had known. When she was murdered by a ritualist of the Order — killed because of what Harlan is, not by chance — his grief triggered his first involuntary wild shape. He didn’t understand it.

That moment set him searching. The trail eventually led him to Athas, where he was captured by House Naeveth agents. In captivity he learned the truth of his bloodline and the Ursine Elders. He escaped. After that, came something worse. Then he was pulled somewhere else.

He carries the bear with him now. Always moving. Not yet at rest.