Silent Hill Suppliment - MrGone's Character Sheets

The History of the Town
The darkness that has come to be visible and
tangible in a real way has always been part of town,
though it was hidden. Even from the earliest years,
things both strange and horrible happened within Silent
Hill. Silent Hill's past sheds some light on its present,
and any such light is precious.
Before the White Man
The first peoples came to the area that would later
be known as Silent Hill around 10,000 BC. They arrived,
and they found the land to be peaceful and lovely. Years
came and went, and the people lived in peace.
In the nights, the countryside would fall completely
silent. It was as though nature itself respected the
darkness that would fall upon the hillsides and valleys.
At first, the people found it unsettling, but they
eventually became comfortable with it, and they even
began showing the same deference for it that nature
seemed to. This silence even gave them the name for
their home. It become known among them as Caalee,
which in their tribal tongue meant the Quiet Place. With
their name for their home came their own name, as they
began calling themselves Caalee.
Over time, the natives uncovered a hidden power of
the town, one around which they built a primitive
religion. Speaking of Silent Spirits, powerful beings that
never spoke above a whisper, the shamans of the tribe led
their people in worship.
The Lightning-man The history of the Caalee was more or less
unremarkable, shamans coming and going, Caalee living
and dying. This would change in the 25 century BCE. At
that time, tradition speaks of an unusual shaman. What
made him unusual was that lightning jumped at his call,
and fire danced at his word.
This man began speaking about the doom of his
tribe. He spoke of a great hunger growing among the
spirits of the Silent Place, and that the Caalee would be
consumed to sate that hunger.
Once his prophecy was delivered, the man turned
back to his home, where he ate his parents, organs and
all, leaving only piles of bones. As retribution, his tribe
pounded stakes through the man's hands and feet, into the
earth below him. He was left on the hillside for 8 days
and 8 nights, where he was given no food or water, and
none of the community paid him any attention. There he
died at the dawning of the 9th day.
The man's body was then burned, far away from the
village.
The Disappearance
Perhaps the strangest part of the Caalee story is
what happened roughly half a century after the start of the
Common Era. The Caalee disappeared. Any trace of
them disappeared completely. It was as though they
never were, as though no one had ever lived in the Silent
Place.
Other native Americans would pass through the
area, but the silence that descended in the night unsettled
them, so they made every effort to be quick about their
trips through the Silent Place. This went on for centuries,
and no word ever came from the Caalee.
Toluca Settlement
Native Americans were faring poorly in the early
17th century. Their numbers were beginning to fall, and
their villages would be stolen from them one by one. The
Europeans had weapons that were far above those of the
natives. What's worse, their diseases killed droves of
natives, all making it that much easier for the white men
to conquer. Their greed was legitimized in their thinking,
since they, themselves were destined by God to 'civilize'
the new world.
They spread out from the settlements on the east
coast, sweeping across the country-side like a horde of
locusts. The movements of the white men eventually
brought settlers to the Silent Place. The country had
plenty of natural resources at hand, among them deer, a
lake replete with fish, and rich soil. The people settled on
the north side of the lake, and they lived peacefully. They
named their settlement Toluca, the surname of their
expedition's leader.
The Plague
Toluca settlement weathered many trials. The first
winter, especially, claimed many lives of the settlers. The
people stayed on, though, determined to remain in their
new home. Even more trials came the following spring,
as the animals in the surrounding country turned upon the
settlers. Many hunters who ventured into the wilds never
came back. Wild, frightening howls and shrieks filled the
night. No crazed animals would chase the settlers away,
so they remained.
Eventually, the settlers became accustomed to their
environment. The people began to have children, healthy
beyond their wildest expectations. Return from crops
would exceed even the most liberal estimations. When
the game began working with them again, the settlers
found there to be more than they would ever need, so
they started killing with impunity, trading the excess.
The settlement thrived for the better part of the 17th
century. Toluca's future was looking bright. That all
changed with the arrival of the plague.
At first, it merely resembled a bad cough, like that
found with a cold. Such a thing in those days was
serious, but not life-threatening. After a number of days,
though, victims of the sickness would lose strength
completely, unable to support themselves. The sick