Kathrin Vaughan

Kathrin, also known as Kat for short, is an adult keidran, a humanoid person with the fur and features of an animal. Unlike most keidran, Kathrin is a mix of various feline and canine breeds, specifically chosen by human breeders for sexual attractiveness. Her fur is soft and smooth, with an exceptionally bushy and fluffy tail, but significantly shorter on her breasts and her front. She has a mix of grey colours, with dark brownish-grey fur on her back, tail, forearms, and lower legs, lighter grey on her thighs, shoulders, sides, and face, and white from her chin, down her front, between her legs and on her rear. Her non-white fur is covered in large, sparse leopard spots, and her lustrous head hair is a similar dark grey to her back. Her eyes are large, light turquoise, and expressive. Kat is quite sheltered and inexperienced, but she is also rational and level-headed. Despite her pedigree as a sex slave, Kat is naive on sexual topics, though she is still quite open about them, similar to many keidran. Her personality is more caring and domestic, and she likes to look after friends and guests, providing refreshments and other domestic services, especially for exhausted or injured friends. Drawing on her early training, she is a skilled masseuse, but her greatest passion is designing and tailoring clothes. Despite her interest in clothes for others, she herself is usually nude, occasionally wearing just an apron or a shirt when she has a practical reason to do so. Kat likes to read, and has taught herself to do so, though she mostly sticks to books with pictures. As a result, she has developed a taste for erotic keidran romance novels, as well as adventure stories. Kat was originally bred and raised to be a sex slave, and her master at the time, Roderick Vaughan, was strict and abusive. However, as she was coming of age, Roderick's younger brother Eric bought her to save her from the fate of sex slavery. Unlike most keidran slaves - and in violation of slave trading laws - Eric refused to use slave enchantments to force Kat to be obedient, instead letting her live in his house with relative freedom. Kat acts as a domestic servant to keep up appearances, but she enjoys her position, and only offers services to guests directly when she herself wants to. Eric Vaughan has a strong, even perverse feeling of lust towards keidran women, and he often paints erotic portraits of them in his study. However, Kathrin is an exception for him, and he treats her more like an adopted sister, never taking advantage of her or even feeling tempted to. Secretly, Kat has an abiding crush on Eric, and she wishes that he would see her as a romantic option. However, like many keidran, Kat is open to romantic relations with multiple people, so her interest in Eric does not prevent her from developing feelings for other people. Because of her mixed canine-feline breed, Kathrin is infertile and will never be able to have children. She is also extremely sensitive to alcohol, easily becoming drunk even on the mildest drinks.

Kathrin 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.