Victor isn't a coward, they are just picky about the people they choose to trust. Listen, getting to terms with the past is tricky as it is, but it's even harder when you have no friends and the only family you really know is a caravan of traveling bards. And between the past kidnapping of their father and the blame they place on themselves for their earlier friend's death, they end up on a quest with a rather strange set of individuals to find the five power stones.