Thank you very much and thanks for playing! The horns for the characters was added a bit later when I started modeling them, but just felt like the first one needed them too :')
He is kinda like the "devil" but as in Finnish folklore known as "piru", who lives in the zone between reality and the "Forest's cover" ("Metsänpeitto" in Finnish). The drum is a shamanistic trinket, which holds the power to control the forest somewhat, and of course the chasing character is the shaman or "Tapio" king of the forest and so on. So kinda the "devil" tricks you to get the drum, and gives you directions on how to get out, but rushes it and you could get lost into the forest if you take a wrong turn on the last section, but yeah!
I had bigger plans to open the lore a bit more, but I ran out of time :')
If you're interested, you can check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mets%C3%A4npeitto a small wikiarticle about "metsänpeitto", because there's many many stories about that and I just kinda went on with the lore without any concrete plan during the development process. :')
Thank you for the feedback and I'll add some more storytelling when I start fixing some other problems also!