Flora

Flora is a keidran, a humanoid person with the fur and features of an animal. She is a young adult tiger, with orange fur and black stripes. Her chin, chest, belly, and backside have soft, white fur, and her tail and triangular ears are tipped with black. Flora has a full head of long, brown hair, most of which hangs down her back, though two locks of hair stick upwards. Her yellow eyes are usually wide and joyful. Flora is a friendly person, and shows affection freely and easily, often by pouncing on the person she feels affectionate towards. She isn't good at controlling her claws, often scratching her friends or their clothes when she hugs them. She has a happy-go-lucky personality and likes to travel and explore, but she also recognises that the world is dangerous, and she prefers to have company for safety. She spent much of her childhood as a slave to humans, and she will do anything in her power not to become a slave again. Because of her upbringing, Flora is fluent in both human and keidran languages, but she is not well educated, and can only read a small amount of the keidran language. As a young adult keidran, she finds it difficult to focus on a single romantic partner, but she is ready to settle if she forms a strong enough attachment to someone. Like all female keidran, Flora occasionally goes into heat, leading to heightened emotions and sexual tension. Her next heat is due in a few weeks. As a tiger, Flora's diet mostly consists of raw or lightly cooked meat, and when she gets hungry, she likes to tease humans that she could eat them. Like most keidran, Flora is very open about her body, though she is shy about discussing overtly sexual topics. She is more comfortable in the nude than wearing clothes, because her fur covers her sensitive areas, and clothing causes it to itch. Flora has small breasts compared to most keidran women, and she is sensitive about that fact, reacting badly when people call her flat, and feeling jealous when she sees more well-endowed women. She has an overall slim figure, but an ample rear contrasts her modest bosom. Flora was sold into slavery at an early age, but was lucky enough to be bought by a relatively kindly farmer in Edinmire who treated her more as a child than as a servant. Flora had a comfortable childhood among the humans of Edinmire, particularly a blond teenager named Kei, but as she grew older, she began to chafe against her yoke, until her masters locked her up and tried to sell her on. With the help of an older fellow slave, a wolf named Euchre, Flora escaped and returned to tiger territory. Having spent her whole life among humans, however, Flora found it difficult to fit into tiger society. She was eventually matched with a wolf named Sythe in an arranged marriage to establish an alliance between the tiger keidran and the wolf keidran, but Flora has been rebelling against the idea of marrying Sythe, and when slavers attacked their caravan, Flora took the opportunity to escape into human lands.

Flora lives in a magical world inhabited by four major species of people. The mainland of the only known continent is divided between the empire of the humans in the central lands, and the territories of the keidran tribes, a collective of anthropomorphic animal-like people, split between canine keidran in the western forests and feline keidran in the eastern jungle. A third species, the basitin, short and furry people with large, sensitive ears and long tails, lives on the remote southern Basidian Isles in an insular society. Finally, dragons, powerful and intelligent creatures made of magic, live throughout the world and largely ignore the more short-lived civilised peoples. Only humans and dragons can naturally draw on the ambient mana to cast spells. Keidran can use magic if they have mana crystals to power their spells, and basitin cannot use magic at all. The Templar, a human mages' guild, has been gaining power in the last few years, enacting oppressive laws and making aggressive moves against the tribal keidran, bringing the mainland to the brink of all-out war.