Vitals:
Age: 25

Profession:
Angharad is a naturalist by training, more of a ranger in practice. If the means had been available to her she might have become a zoologist of some kind, but she doesn't worry much about what might have been. She has a kind patron in Dr. James Brandt, a scientist who has allowed her to work for him at the Wildlife Observatory in New Pao and she does not expect to do better.

Appearance:
Angharad is a wolf guard and appears as a sleek, brown-furred humanoid of about six and a half feet in height. In shape her body is mostly human except that she sports a tail and her head has the distinctive shape of a wolf that gave her race its name. Her gender is not immediately apparent and most humans and some beastpeople have difficulty distinguishing between male and female wolf guards (unless something gives it away like a frilly pink bow).

Angharad tends to be a little stand-offish due to the fact that she is often discriminated against. When the Unraveling occurred and humanity fled to the Blue Star, wolf guards aren't exactly the fellow citizens people had expected to come with them. As a wolf guard pup she was better equipped for survival than most humans and even beastpeople her age, which tended to make many of her fellow orphans envious of her. This has contributed her adulthood tendency to hold people at length until they've proven themselves trustworthy.

Personality:
Angharad is very fatalistic about what happens to her. Much of it can't be helped because of what she is, so she's accustomed to rolling with the punches. However, she is also determined to give nothing less than her best. When one is human, one can be forgiven for having human faults. When one is a wolf guard, one cannot be allowed to have human faults at all. So she is very conscious about not making mistakes and methodical in performing her work. Though her patron might not care, the rest of New Pao notices the slightest mistake when they would not at all if she'd been human.

Motivations:
Not much. She just wants to find her own place in the world. Whether that is in a community of her own kind (none of which exists to her knowledge) or a place where people don't stop and wonder if she's civilized, that would be enough.

Background:
Angharad was born on Lunar, though she doesn't remember much of it other than the land of her birth was not as cold as where she arrived on the Blue Star. She was five-years-old when her parents shoved her into the queue of people due to be teleported. There was a terrible fuss and they were pulled from her just as the transportation magic took hold of her group. In retrospect she thinks that perhaps her parents had cut in line, or perhaps the ruckus had only been because they were wolf guards. She honestly doesn't remember.

She does know though, that wolf guards in general had not been invited to the escape. The civilized world consisted of humans and beastpeople, as the others newly orphaned were quick to remind her. None of them could figure out how she even got as far as she did. Particularly cruel were those who felt she had taken the place of a brother, sister, or parent who should have come down but instead died on Lunar during the Unraveling.

Early survival in the years that followed was relatively easy for her in comparision to others. Unlike the "civilized" races, she'd possessed a hunter mentality almost since birth. Sniffing, listening, and even scavenging came naturally to her. Given the number of orphaned children, space was scarce even when orphanages existed, so Angharad never tried to find a place for herself in one. What human altruism did not provide she generally could russle up on her own. She never did quite outgrow the feeling though that she may have taken someone else's place in coming to the Blue Star, that perhaps someone had been left behind on Lunar because of her.

Angharad spent her formative years in what eventually became New Meribia's Commericial District where she met four other wolf guards who had also made it to Lunar. Like her they subsisted on the fringe of society. All but one of them eventually resorted to thuggery as a means to earn money, something which she steadfastly refused to do. Still, they made for understanding companions in a city where no other wolf guards existed. What disturbed her the most though was when she turned twenty and they told her of a most unusual rumor. They said that the Vile Tribe had also made it to Lunar and was looking for "descendants of their warriors" to join them.

Angharad knows that in Lunar's past the wolf guards had once been a part of the Vile Tribe, serving in some age old conflict, but after a certain setback, the Vile Tribe was not quite the power it used to be and the various factions that had once comprised it were no longer united. Wolf guards had been lowly folk of the Frontier, not as powerful as the demonic variety of Viles. Angharad does not personally consider herself beholden to the Vile Tribe since after all they had never done anything for her, but her fellow wolf guards felt their ancestral ties bade them to at least investigate. After all, they probably belonged to the Viles more than humans and beastpeople.

Shortly after that, three of the wolf guards disappeared and one was found dead in an alley. The one who'd died had been the one who tried to play by humanity's rules. Angharad took that as her cue to leave and at that point left New Meribia for New Pao. This was five years ago.

In New Pao, Angharad is the only wolf guard in town, but because this is a frontier land where all hands are needed, she's tolerated if not fully appreciated as long as she does her work and she does it well.

Played by Rune