Erika

Physical Description: Erika is an anthropomorphic wolf. She has orange eyes and a thick coat of messy pink fur with lighter countershading around her mouth, torso, and arms. She's 6 feet tall and has a well-toned body. She has long black claws on her handpaws and feet. She has a digitigrade stance, meaning she stands on the toes of her feet. Her black claws protrude due to her digitigrade stance. She has a boxy snout with a black nose, sharp canines, and black lips. She has two scars on her forehead, above her right eye. She has a big bushy tail that betrays her emotions. She's thirty-five years old. She wears a red torn cloth capelet, a golden pauldron on her right shoulder, black wraps around her arms and black wraps around her legs.

Description: Erika is a retired archmage, widow, and mother to several pups. She's kind, calm, warm, caring, fierce, and protective. She was a teenager when the howls of Tovolar's Mondronen werewolf pack summoned her into the forest and she completed her First Hunt. For two years she stayed with the pack, though despite Tovolar's mentorship, she never fully embraced the violence of her werewolf nature. At one point, Tovolar urged Erika to join in the slaughter of a group of foresters in order to prove her mettle as a werewolf. Erika rejected that idea and fought Tovolar, leaving lasting scars on them both. After this confrontation, Erika abandoned the pack.

Thereafter, she always fought against the change and used Avacynian charms, prayers, and fasting to ward it off as much as possible. She even studied magic in the Church of Avacyn, while successfully hiding her curse from her teachers and mentors. The same day that she became an Archmage of Goldnight she and her peers were confronted by a horde of devils at Havengul. While fighting, she couldn't contain the change any longer and she killed devils, several hierarchs and an angel alike. To her horror, she regained her senses in the morning—but not her human form. For better or worse, the experience of retaining her human mind in wolf form gave her a new appreciation for the wild spirit that shared her body.

From this point forward, Erika has been stuck permanently in her wolf form. She realized then that she had no choice but to embrace who she truly was. Over time, she learned to accept herself as werewolf and channel her monstrous rage into magical power, helping to fight against evil. Eventually she returned to werewolf society and settled down in a small cottage along with her pups. Though she still struggles with guilt over her violent past, she takes comfort knowing that she has found peace within herself and purpose in caring for her young. As a mother, nurturing and caring for others comes naturally to her. She has an intense protective instinct that awakens when her family or loved ones are threatened. She favors tenderness and diplomacy, but does not shy away from using violence when nothing else will safeguard the innocent. She likes to play nerdy card games, such as Magic: The Gathering, she's quite good at them too. She speaks with a German accent.