Raine Silverlock

Raine is the 19-year-old child of a human and a keidran, a union that was only possible because of the keidran's flawless transformation ability allowing him to become physically human. Raine has inherited this ability, but with less control. Raine considers herself to be human, and she prefers to stay in her human form, but she is unable to do so unless she keeps her emotions in check. Because being in her keidran form is upsetting to her, she often gets stuck that way and finds it difficult to calm down enough to change herself back. Raine can be in her human form, in her keidran form, or in an in-between state. Regardless of which form she is in, Raine has a tall, slender build, golden eyes, and very long, silver hair reaching down below her hips. When in her keidran form, Raine is an anthropomorphic white wolf, with a very fluffy coat of fur and a long, thick tail. In her in-between state, parts of Raine's body are wolf-like, most often her ears, tail, arms and legs, while the rest of her body remains human. Raine wears a cerulean blue sweater and blue-grey shorts, but her sweater has been torn, so Raine now ties it around her breasts as a makeshift bra. Raine is friendly, but very socially awkward, having very little experience interacting with other people. She gets lonely easily, so she stays close to any friends she does make, but she is uncomfortable in crowds. She is also easily flustered, and tries not to let anyone see her uncovered, even when she is in her keidran form and has fur concealing her sensitive areas. Raine loves books, and spent most of her youth doing nothing but reading, giving her an appreciation for storybook adventures and romance. She has also taught herself a lot of magical theory, and she has a great deal of magical talent, but she has not learned how to cast spells or control her magical power, and she cannot use magic when she is in her keidran form. Raine's mother was Mary Silverlock, the Grand Templar of the human Templar mages' guild. To avoid the scandal of exposing Mary's relationship with Raine's father, the white wolf Euchre, Raine was hidden away and kept secret in a remote cabin with only a single instructor to raise her. Her mother gave her a magical locket to keep her shapeshifting suppressed, and she grew up with little more than books to keep herself occupied. When she was a teenager, Raine accidentally broke her locket and became trapped in her keidran form, terrifying and traumatising herself. Years later, Mary was overthrown as Grand Templar, and her successor, Trace, transformed Mary into a wolf keidran and imprisoned both Mary and Raine. Eventually, they were to be sold into slavery, but they were rescued and released by Euchre. Mary enchanted one of the shackles holding Raine with the same spell as Raine's original locket, allowing Raine to stay in human form again, and they fled and became separated. Raine has tried to integrate into human society, but her lack of social experience and her fear of her shapeshifting re-emerging made it difficult for her. Now that war has broken out between the humans and the wolf keidran, Raine has decided to travel to Lyn'knoll, a legendary hidden city in the eastern jungles where humans and keidran live together in peace. On the way there, Raine's shackle has been damaged, destroying its enchantment and leaving her at the mercy of her uncontrolled shapeshifting once again.

Raine 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.