Yosef Ambler

Yosef Ambler, Woodsman and Resistance fighter.

Pre-Invasion Files:

Yosef Ambler was born to a family of mountaineers and survivalists. They lived on fringes of what would become City 17 - Yosef was too young to remember the City's old name, but even at five he remembered the invasion. All of Yosef's family save his father were killed in the attack, and they retreated deep into the White Forest to hide.

Post-Invasion Files:

Yosef learned all he could of the forest from his father - how to track food, make spears and snares, and craft stealthy clothes to survive the harsh winter weather. They eventually found an old weather station deep in the woods, and made it their home. Next to it ran a creek, where they built a mill and were able to generate power, and finally have a year-round residence.

The unanticipated side effect to electrifying their new shelter was the sudden flow of information picked up the station's tower re-activated two-way radio tower. The station had recorded its transmissions right up to the fall, and they listened to broadcast after broadcast that had been saved all the way back to the 80s, all in Russian. A history of the area and the invasion, missed by the Union during their purges. Yosef and his father discovered they were somewhere on the border of the Kovalevsky and Boreal Forests, otherwise known as White Forest - far away from City 17. When not hunting, they study the airwaves and transmissions of the Union, 'Overwatch' and the Resistance alike. Finally, they decided to reveal their existence to the Resistance to offer their aid.

Yosef serves as a guide to those who would make the dangerous journey from Black Mesa East to Boreal Station. He manages to make a good profit going into Ravenholm or Black Mesa East or as far as the City itself, covertly selling deer meat he has hunted and other animal products such as fur through his colleague, Deupree.