Merlin - Semer of Telcoyu - DotW

Thank you Misty for helping me with her personality!

This is for Domain-of-the-Wolf 

9/9/2024 - New Pack| New Ref| Some Added Info

Name: Merlin
Age: Adult
Gender: Female
Height:  32”
Weight: 70lbs
Build: Slender and sleek with muscular legs. Powerful for running and digging. Big ears and a long fluffy tail.

Family: Sophie (Mother NPC) - Cole (Father NPC)
Mate: Not yet

Territory: Telcoyu

Previous Territory: Vektren
Rank: Semer

Previous Rank: Serf

Task: Task-less

Previous Task:

Personality: Kind and Friendly, Nosy, Protective and Helpful, Observant and Mysterious, Obedient and Loyal.

Kind and Friendly: Merlin is someone who values showing kindness over being hostile. She grew up to not allow herself to be hateful or vengeful not without real reason that is. Merlin is a friendly face who values open communication, a shoulder to lean on when a wolf is not doing well, and is willing to give her own two cents for any given situation when asked.

Nosy: If there’s some juicy gossip around, Merlin will surely enjoy listening in on all the details that are often meant to be classified as personal or private. While this is a trait that may irk some of her packmates, this trait does make her out to be a great listener. She is always open to listen to the woes and stories of her packmates with no complaint.

Protective and Helpful: If you happen to get close to her she’s bound to protect you from harm. Merlin is incredibly protective of her friends and family. She also tends to be especially protective to those who are unable to advocate for themselves, as a wolf who has been ignored and brushed off, she will not allow it to happen to others. This personality trait also makes her come across as extremely helpful. What some might view as overstepping, others can understand that she is well-intentioned.

Observant and Mysterious: Merlin is very aware of her surroundings. She has a keen sense of hearing and often makes out what others are doing around her, and the emotions that her peers are experiencing. Her observant nature could be attributed to the fact that Merlin is not interested in others learning or knowing of her past. A filthy loner with no home. She would rather learn about others than face her past. Knowledge is power after all. With this all said, she happens to be pretty good at keeping a secret. Despite the fact that Merlin enjoys knowing about the latest gossip, she's among the last to be spreading gossip.

Obedient and Loyal: Rules are Rules. She will do what she is told by those higher ranked than she, no questions asked. Merlin isn’t one to argue with rules being taught this by her parents at a young age after her mischievous phase. She is also loyal to those she follows. Loyal to her beliefs. She believes that it pays to be loyal to your friends and those higher than you in rank and power.

Pregroup history: 

Merlin was born to a small family. In her family many of her siblings left when they reached adulthood to either create their own packs, explore the world or find love. But they were never alone, often helping others get on their feet and taking in new members to their family. She learned a lot of kindness from her parents.

As a pup, Merlin was mischievous and playful. She liked to play pranks on her family, often jumping out to scare them or place bugs in their sleeping areas. Merlin was no stranger to getting in trouble as a puppy. This taught her valuable lessons, like there is a time for fun and there is time to stop.

As a juvenile, Merlin grew out of her mischievous ways. She learned that having fun can be harmless but when your family doesn't enjoy it anymore it's time to stop. Around her juvi days she decided to become more of a helping hand to her family. Learning about hunting and survival as well as ways to help certain ailments. She wanted to learn everything she could. She would often be found observing the land around her tracking prey just to track it down. Merlin would collect plants and flowers just in case they were needed.

As Merlin aged into an adult she grew antsy. Her family moved around a lot, never really staying in one place and this was exhausting to Merlin. She loved to travel around, but she never really had a place to call home. Her parents would say that home is where your family is, this was unsatisfying to Merlin. While she could agree with them it just wasn’t the answer she wanted. The wolf wanted more than what she was provided. She was never given a straight answer to their continuous moving, sometimes it was due to other loners in the area, or being chased away. Merlin wanted more.

With that she wanted to find a purpose in her family. If she couldn’t have a home she’d at least be useful, but it always turned out to be her job watching her younger siblings and never really having a home. She had learned so much about many things as a child that it shocked Merlin how useless she felt. Frequently she was overlooked and pushed aside in favor of other siblings. Not often allowed to go on hunts with the others. She was deemed nothing more than a pup sitter to her parents. At least this is how Merlin felt, but of course she never argued.

As she realized she was getting older and not much of a use to her family she confronted them about moving so much one more time. And they finally caved in and told her the truth. Her family had been stealing from packs and loners all her life and even before then. They couldn’t stay in one place too long because they’d get caught. This disgusted Merlin. How could her family be thieves? With all the kindness she was blinded by she never saw that her family was stealing to survive. Merlin felt like her family must have assumed this reaction from her and that's why she was nothing more than a pupsitter and never told the truth.

With that, she decided that it was time to leave and find something else she could be useful at. At least find somewhere she could be deemed as useful and not be stealing to survive. She wished her parents well and went off into the world. The female didn't know what she'd find. But maybe she could find a home, some new friends and a new family but most importantly a purpose.

Group History:

(I'm adding a brief summary here to try to fill in a little bit of the blanks I'm gonna be trying to fill for Merlin's story. This all happens when she joins in Mid to late winter to Current)

After traveling and failing at a hunt Merlin encounters two wolves from Vektren. After a long discussion her life is spared maybe due to having some decent qualities she was able to show the pack wolves but her lack of understanding faith and having them in Gods got her in some trouble that she was completely unaware of.

They would lead Merlin to a place the pack would call the Re-education pits. There they would shove Merlin in telling her that she could meet the Gods herself and abandoned her there.

She would spend the remaining of winter until mid spring where she would be deemed re-educated enough to be let out of the pits. However her every move and every word would be watched and listened to.

Then one day chatter Merlin did not understand, happened among the pack until their Patron announced leaving to a new location. Merlin could not follow the others. The torturous pits have become some sort of safe place for the Serf. While confusing for others it was comforting for her. So she would stay in the old Vektren Territory with any others who stayed behind.

Until things seemed to change and point in a different, new direction.

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Art/Character (c) AngelTheShifter
Design by (c) saltedantlers 

Medallion image by (c) @VilkasVale