You wake up inside a cave, no memory of how you got there. As you sit up, you feel a sharp pain in your side, like something stabbed you, but there's nothing there. Whence you sit up, there's a figure in a cloak sitting right next to you

???: Hey, it's okay, you can trust me, I saved you from that ogre back there. Nearly bashed you're head in, if not for me. My name's Ryder, I've traversed these lands for as long as I knew how to breathe.