> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Jek > ###### Basic Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Character | > ###### Character Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Creature Type | Humanoid | > Species | Gnome | > Gender | Male | > Pronouns | He/Him | > Place | [[The Darkwood]] | > Profession | Hunter and material harvester | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Alive | **Jek** is a gnomish hunter and adventurer who makes his living in [[The Darkwood]], venturing deep into its shadows to retrieve rare materials harvested from the creatures that dwell there. Blunt-spoken and no-nonsense, he is nonetheless a man of considerable warmth — the sort who says little but does much. ## Biography Jek has long made [[The Darkwood]] his domain, navigating its dangers with the calm confidence of someone who stopped fearing the dark years ago. His work takes him into the forest's most hostile reaches, where he tracks and harvests rare creature components prized by alchemists, artificers, and traders throughout the region. He travels light, knows the terrain intimately, and has little patience for those who underestimate what lives beneath those canopies. His most enduring act of care was taking in [[Ryo]] as an infant, raising the child in the rough-and-ready world of a wilderness hunter before the boy's true origins were known to anyone — including Jek himself. Whatever his reasons for taking the child in, he gave him a foundation of resilience and self-reliance that would prove formative. He is never seen without his tall, floppy green hat — a battered, lopsided thing that bobs as he walks and somehow suits him perfectly.