❄ POBA

Name:
True Name: Nylaipin - The Snows of Yesteryear
Commonly Used Name: Poba

Gender:
Female

Age:
Centuries Unknown

Year in school:
Senior in College

Mastery:
Hunter

Dorm:
Vermilion

Height:
5'8"

Appearance:



Personality:
This polar bear spirit is a stoic individual, taking pride in her heritage and species. Though only a demigod spirit taking on a werecreature humanoid form, she holds herself upright and to the standard of her own spiritual kind. Nylaipin is a devoted lover of justice. She looks down on injustices or harm made against the innocent. While she does not instigate fights or initiate attempts towards uncalled-for justice, this polar bear is unafraid to stand up to a fight when challenged. She is known for being able to stand her ground in the face of danger.

In public, Nylaipin is a quiet soul, preferring to not speak unless there is truly something that needs saying, or when directly addressed with something she finds worth responding to. Nylaipin loves nature and holds a distaste for the loud and bustling city. Additionally, she holds natural mother bear instincts and thus a fondness for children, wishing to see them protected and safe. Underneath the stoic and dangerous layer, Nylaipin is soft and motherly, holding a gentle grace about her.

History:
Nylaipin is a daughter of the Polar Bear God, Nanuk. She was created alongside her ninety nine family members, Tlapa, Tlacringit, Kayi, Tlapat, Klin, Naklin, Tlamo, Tlatim, Tlaslo, Tlapinti, Kripya, Tliyel, Tliyelin, Blotla, Pactla, Hiryla, Retaw, Tlayinq, quinaya, quinyaya, Kriplyana, Puntla, Allatla, Fritla, Gristla, Mactla, Jatla, Dinliltla, Sulitlana, Mentlana, Tidla, Ertla, Kriyantli, Hahatla, Semla, Ontla, Intla, Shlim, Warintla, Mextla, Penstla, Penstla, Mortla, Ylaipi, Pritla, Nootlin, Rotlana, Skriniya, Bluwid, Tlanid, Evertla, Talini, Priyakli, Chiup, Blontla, Tlalman, Tlalam, Tlanip, Protla, Attla, Sotla, Tlun, Astrila, Clim, Tlapi, Krikaya, Ashtla, Huantla, Tlanana, Depptla, Trinkyi, Tronkyin, Shiya, Katiyana, Tlinro, Nyik, Ragnitla, Akitla, Privtla, Chahatlin, Hootlin, Geltla, Briktla, Striktla, Erolinyat, Chachat, Krotla, Tlarin, Motla, Sotla, Maxtla, Tlayopi, Truyi, Tlapripta, Carpitla, and their mother, Tla.

The Polar Bears hunted by the wild, aboriginal tribes of the coldest, northernmost Wildes rely on their hunters to treat their carcasses with respect. Certain traditions grant the bear a peaceful passing onto the Hereafter. Disrespect and disgrace of their carcasses and body parts make the path to the Hereafter turbulent and harsh, with some bear spirits not surviving and falling based on the level of poor treatment of their remains. Fallen bear spirits are left to wander the world as lost souls, many of which seek revenge on the people and tribes that disrespected their remains.

A certain tribe gifted in magic and spirit-handling talents paid no heed to how they treated the hunted bear carcasses, as the lost souls that dared challenge them were met with a horrifying and absolute end, sometimes destroyed, and other times cast into the pits of the Dark Place, a hell. Witnessing so many of their distant relatives dying in such a manner, Nanuk, the Polar Bear god and king, sent one of his daughters to deal with the taboo-breaking tribe. He sent Nylaipin, whose name meant ‘The Snows of Yesteryear”, in hopes that she would purge their stain on bearkind and make it no more than a blot in the past.

Nylaipin obeyed her king and father’s order, setting out to eradicate the tribe that disrespected and damned many good polar bears. She fought bravely, resistant to their spirit-based charms, and killed off the grown hunters, destroyed their houses, and looked for any bear remains she could find in order to properly bury them at the very least, so that some might find a narrow path to return home on. However, there were a few faces the large polar bear demigod could not bring her massive claws down upon. The faces of innocent children, whose parents had committed a sin against Nanuk, but had no fault of their own. No blood was on their hands and in her mind, they did not deserve to die.

Rounding up these couple of children, Nylaipin carried them all, their tiny hands and fingers clinging to her snowy-white fur. As the children road, their language not let developed, they murmured the word ‘Poba’ in their desperate attempts to pronounce and name the tenderhearted polar bear. She carried them to a local tribal village that had done right in the eyes of Nanuk. The kind families were eager to adopt the children, taking them from her white pelt and accepting them as their own.

Content with her mission, Nylaipin took the path to return home to the heavens and her family. However, before she could take to the sky, the demigoddess found her home closed off to her; the way was shut. From afar yet so close, as if in her own head, she heard a disapproving, booming voice condemn her for having not finished her mission. Nanuk said she had tainted another tribe that had done right in their eyes with the sin of the children of taboo-violators and bear murders. The only way she could return home was to find the children again and kill them, finishing her task.

Naturally, the polar bear rejected the notion, choosing to walk the path of exile than to murder the innocent children she had rescued. For hundreds of years, the blood of the sinners was passed down, making her task far more impossible; she would not kill off the descendants of those that had once clung to her pelt. In silence and exile, Nylaipin took human shape and began to work herself into the society of the modern world of Skiagis.



Name of Species: Werecreature

Baseline Dimension: When in humanoid form they typically range from 5 to 7 feet tall and weight from 100 to 200 lbs.The animal form is twice the size of it’s normal animal counterpart and it’s normal weight plus half.

Baseline Appearance: The appearance of Weres is realistic to humans for the most part expect their eyes come in a much wider range able to be almost every color. When in animal form they do tend to follow realistic colorations with pelts, save for the eyes. When the animal pelt doesn’t match the humanoid hair color at first transformation, a were’s human appearance may change when they transform back, if it does so this is permanent.

Culture/Origin of Species:
The rumor is that unholy creatures have stolen the pelt of humans and wear them to venture out of the wilds in order to invade civilized society. However, if you ask any Were for the truth the exact opposite is the truth! Each and every naturally born Were is born in a humanoid form, or turned from an actual human, it’s the animal that is worn by them in order to survive in their wild home. Most of the Weres that do venture out of the wilds mean no harm whatsoever and are simply curious about the other creatures around them. Short of the night in which they are corrupted by the full moon’s light? The species is dolce towards other creatures who can find decent common ground with them. However, living as to different things they are both efficient at defending themselves and vicious in doing so. Yet, somehow even when feral Weres will never attack each other as if they have some special way to tell who isn’t one of them.

Traits:
• Outside of when the Full Moon is hanging in the sky, Weres can freely transform between their animal and humanoid forms, or somewhere between them if necessary.
• Regardless of their current body these creatures have incredible senses that far exceed anything most others possess as they have the senses of two species stacked atop each other due to their were condition.
• Weres age extremely slow compared to humans having average lifespans of 300 years even in areas of great danger.
• Almost any injury dealt to a were from anything besides things containing silver, bane, something doused in vampire venom, will heal over next to immediately.
• Being excellent hunters these creatures have what one may call ‘predator sense’ once they locked onto a target for some reason, it's next to impossible to lose them.
• Many claim that were species are super fast that you just can’t see them, this is actually false, instead light reflects remarkably well off their pelt making them generally harder to see as it plays tricks on the eyes.
• Weres possess a venom in their fangs that when injected into humans via their bite, transforms the human into a were.
• When a were is not transformed to most interacting with them the species seems to be normal humans.
• Being a wilds dwelling breed, most weres have an impeccable ability to identify plants and animals from all over the place.
• Regardless of distance if a Were is capable of communicating telepathically with other Weres if they both wish to.

Flaws:
• Weres have an extreme weakness to anything involving the metal silver, it burns their flesh and weapons made from it are very efficient at killing them.
• Bane is highly toxic to Weres, even the smallest amount of this varied plant species or things derived from it is capable of bringing one down.
• If a Were shape shifting willingly is jolted with electricity the transformation is stopped and will not work again for about fifteen minutes.
• Once every moon cycle, on the full moon, weres are forced to transform against their will and unable to shift back until sunrise. Most weres unassisted by magic go completely feral during this time often needing chained or caged to avoid harming other species.
• The sole reason Weres tend to stay away from Vampires, is that the bite of the Vampire is poison to them.