User blog comment:B1littlehero/Speculation of the Origin of Species/@comment-7622429-20140612021301/@comment-160529-20140612024909

I believe that the Awoken came about during the collapse...

There are two theories on their origins that I like.

That they are the descendants of humans raised from the dead in order to defend the traveler from the Darkness (a sort of last ditch army) thus the ghost influence and the name awoken. Or that they were simply humans affected dramatically by the energies of the traveler... in one way or another.

Well mike, there is the "Queen of the reef" and "Crow" who are two awoken that live side by side with a fallen house in the reef, along with other awoken (the Reef seems to be the closest place to neutral ground there is), and these characters have been seen...

And yeah there are a few identifiable characters introduced already... The speaker, Crow, Queen of the Reef... you cant really have a story without identifiable characters... how would that work?