And even Maria wasn't there right away. She came in as you played Ashley's story.Haven't seen it, so I can't really say if I'd care for her or not. I'm not against crazy in the right story telling context. I'm sure it doesn't help that when I started playing, there were basically only 4 characters and Kali/Maria came out gate swinging hard, personality wise, and Lin is about as balanced proportionally as you could get and has pointy ears and I love me some elves.
Honestly, that was her one redeeming quality to me back then, she introduced us to Maria.