You're hiking alone with your mule in the middle of a dark wood, an inadvisable occurrence at the best of times, monster populations are up in the area. But you don't have a choice, your family needs the sale from the grain your mule is carrying, and you're behind schedule.

The forest goes silent and the air thickens, then before you can react, two lizardmen with bulging eyes and salivating tongues burst out from the underbrush and attack you! Just as they reach you and you're sure you're done for, there's a quick 'skatch' as a blade connects with flesh. When you look up from the ground where you fell, you see the silhouette of a Knight Templar, holding out his hand to help you up.