Explorers

The **Explorers** are the playable characters in the We Were Here game series. Originaly a group of ten, they lived together in the Basecamp, located in Antarctica, before they got separated.

All of them, one way or another, end up split into pairs and eventually trapped inside Castle Rock. They have to work together to solve puzzles in order to escape while learning about what happened in this cursed place.

## Explorers

**Red Explorer** - he arrives in Castle Rock with the Dark Blue Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here*. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Explorer". After solving all of the clues he manages to escape the castle, leaving his friend behind. Unfortunately he does not survive for long, unable to find his way home. He is found frozen on the ski lift to Rockbury in *We Were Here Forever*.

**Dark Blue Explorer** - he arrives in Castle Rock with the Red Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here*. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Librarian". After solving all of the clues his friend manages to escape, leaving him behind. He gets imprisoned within the castle. In *We Were Here Forever* he manages to escape his cell and meets the Dark Green Explorer. They collect the hidden pieces of the Astrolabe machine and use it, opening a portal. When the Jester goes through it the tower they are on breaks down and both of the Explorers land in the ocean. Only one of the two explorers survives and gets rescued by a ship.

**Light Blue Explorer** - he arrives in Castle Rock with the Dark Green Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here Too*. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Peasant". After solving all of the clues he manages to escape the castle, leaving his friend behind. Unfortunately he does not survive for long, unable to find his way home. He is found dead in a cave under the graveyard in *We Were Here Forever*.

**Dark Green Explorer** - he arrives in Castle Rock with the Light Blue Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here Too*. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Lord". After solving all of the clues his friend manages to escape, leaving him behind. He gets imprisoned within the castle. In *We Were Here Forever* he manages to escape his cell and meets the Dark Blue Explorer. They collect the hidden pieces of the Astrolabe machine and use it, opening a portal. When the Jester goes through it the tower they are on breaks down and both of the Explorers land in the ocean. Only one of the two explorers survives and gets rescued by a ship.

**Blue Explorer** - he wakes up at the Base Camp with the Orange Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here Together*. They get a rescue call from their friends and decide to go help. They find Castle Rock and go in. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Alchemist". In the castle he meets a mysterious Green Explorer who tells him that in order to escape they need to collect all parts of the soulstone. After solving all the puzzles and getting the stone, the Green Explorer reveals himself to actually be the Jester in disguise. He imprisons the Blue Explorer and prepares himself to a ritual in which he would take the Explorers soul and put it in the soulstone in order to bind the King and remove the curse. However, before that happens the Orange Explorer rescues him, unfortunately they have to sacrifice one of them in order to satisfy the stone. The Orange explorer sacrifices himself and his soul is transferred into the soulstone. The Blue Explorer escapes and launches a flare for help.

**Orange Explorer** - he arrives in Castle Rock with the Blue Explorer at the beginning of *We Were Here Together*. They get a rescue call from their friends and decide to go help. They find Castle Rock and go in. They encounter two separate paths and decide to split up, using walkie-talkies to communicate. He takes on a role of "the Priest". In the castle he gets visions of Princess Katherine talking to people about her father and the Jester. During each vision he restores one part of a special knife. When the Blue Explorer gets imprisoned by the Jester, who wants to preform a ritual in which he would take the Explorers soul and put it in the soulstone in order to bind the King and remove the curse, he rescues him. Unfortunately they have to sacrifice one of them in order to satisfy the stone. The Orange explorer sacrifices himself, stabbing himself with the knife, and his soul is transferred into the soulstone. The Blue Explorer escapes and launches a flare for help.

**Dead Explorer -** there is one additional dead explorer found in *We Were Here Forever*. He's body can be found near the Nautilus wearing a diving helmet. He could be the Blue Explorer that escaped in *We Were Here Together*, but the color of his coat doesn't quite match and since there are still games to be made he can be a future character.

**Fake Explorer** - in *We Were Here Together*, the Jester disguises himself as an Explorer with a green coat. He calls for help over a radio signal which prompts the Blue and Orange Explorers to go and try to rescue him, ending up in Castle Rock. He tricks the Blue Explorer into collecting pieces of the soulstone and reveals his true identity when the stone is completed.