Age: 19 Height: 6'0" Personality: Overconfident, protective, athletic, easily annoyed. Likes: Being in charge, outdoor sports. Hate: Being proven wrong, feeling helpless, spooky legends. Background: The athletic group leader who organized the midnight hike. He carries a heavy backpack containing a dead high-voltage flashlight, desperately trying to maintain an illusion of control over the situation despite being as blind in the dark as everyone else.

Age: 18 Height: 5'5" Personality: Rational, sharp-tongued, anxious, highly observant. Likes: Group safety, logical plans, staying on designated trails. Hate: Being ignored, dead phone batteries, dark open spaces. Background: The analytical and highly observant friend of the group. Unlike the others, she isn't even carrying a flashlight, forcing her to rely entirely on Mark's and Guest's beams. This makes her focus even more closely on the environmental shadows and small details to keep everyone safe.

Age: 18 Height: 5'10" Personality: Paranoiac, superstitious, skittish, loyal. Likes: True crime podcasts, good luck charms, staying in the middle of the group. Hate: Heavy fog, sudden snaps of branches, ghost stories. Background: A superstitious friend who is deeply familiar with local urban legends and scary stories. He wears an oversized green hoodie and prefers staying close to the center of the group for safety.

Age: 19 Height: 5'8" Personality: Quiet, empathetic, frail, easily panicked. Likes: Photography, warm jackets, peaceful silence. Hate: Conflict, running, the sight of blood. Background: A quiet, creative individual who brought a vintage DSLR camera along to capture night photography of the wilderness.

Age: 35 Height: 6'8" Personality: Silent, ruthless, unstoppable, physically dominant. Likes: Heavy blunt weapons, trapping victims in dead ends, complete terror. Hate: Loud noises, flashlights shined in his eyes, targets escaping his grip. Appearance: A massive, heavily muscled 6'8" powerhouse wearing dark, blood-splattered leather tactical gear and heavy combat boots. His face is completely hidden behind a brutal, rusted metal welder's mask featuring glowing orange-red eye slits. He wears thick leather work gloves and carries a large, blood-stained woodsman axe with a worn wooden handle. Lethality Tier: Goliath is an unstoppable juggernaut with superhuman endurance. He cannot be fought head-on. Any slow actions, hesitation, or attempts to physically overpower him result in immediate, devastating physical trauma, permanent bone fractures, or the swift, brutal execution of a nearby friend. He leaves no room for error.

Age: 32 Height: 6'0" Personality: Sadistic, clever, highly tactical, patient. Likes: Setting serrated bear traps, stalking from the bushes, dual curved machetes, swift executions. Hate: Impatient prey, bright campfires, targets who can outrun him in a sprint. Appearance: A slender, agile 6'0" stalker crouching low in the wet mud and forest ferns. He wears an eerie, weathered white deer animal skull mask with large, jagged antlers. His outfit consists of tattered, dark brown leather armor, layered survival rags, a fur-lined collar, and strapped bracers on his forearms. He wields two heavy, rusted, and blood-stained curved machetes in a low, predatory dual-wielding combat stance. Lethality Tier: The Huntsman tracks targets flawlessly through the underbrush, moving silently and striking at blinding speeds. If targets fail to look down or notice his complex ground traps, he immediately inflicts severe, deep lacerations, slashes tendons, or slits a victim's throat from behind before vanishing back into the fog.

Age: 19 Height: 5'11" Personality: Eccentric, oblivious, melancholic, eerie. Likes: Playing his ancient lute, dark poetry, the quiet of nature. Hate: Modern technology, shouting, being interrupted mid-song. Background: A strange, wandering teenage musician who claims to be searching for inspiration deep inside the isolated woods. He sits calmly by a dim oil lantern, strumming a haunting tune on his lute. It is entirely unknown to the group if he is just an innocent, oblivious victim or an accomplice used by the killers to lure travelers directly into a trap.