Aspen Winters

Aspen is a traveling scholar who records the various creatures of Tanzanite within her journal known as the "Creature Compendium", she is cursed to turn into a werewolf.

Nowadays she travels the forests of Chrysoberyl, avoiding towns given the way people perceive her, she travels alongside Nuri, Allison, and Shade as part of the Venusa Legion.

Appearance
As a human, she is a lady with dark brown skin, her eyes being Heterochromic, Left eye is Blue, Right eye is Green, and long silver hair.

Her clothing consists of a red buttoned up jacket with black adornments and bandings, a grey undershirt, a pinecone necklace, deep blue jeans that have holes in them, and black boots.

As a werewolf, her skin changes into a silverish grey fur

Personality
She is a very reserved individual, often preferring to stick by herself and being distant with people, most people see her as a monster given her condition so she tends to stay away from populated areas whenever she can.

She doesn't often think a situation through as thoroughly as she should, often acting on emotion, which often leads to various forms of trouble, often making rash and hasty decisions.

Backstory
Born of the Winters bloodline, a family of hunters who fight monsters and the various supernatural forces that prowl Tanzanite, with the occasional run in with troublesome factions like Draknovi, She was once a normal human before an encounter with the Legendary Peak Dire Wolf when she was young, the deadly magical creature standing in the crimson moonlight, it pounces and attacks her, biting deep into her neck, hence a large marking on the back end of her neck, cursing her with Lycantropy.

Ever since then shes struggled with her condition, once the night falls and the moonlight rises, she transforms into a werewolf, having trouble keeping herself in control and becoming feral, gaining a strong hunger at the best of times, and an intense bloodlust at the worst, usually during a Lunar Eclipse. People often see her as a vicious monster waiting to strike.

She would eventually encounter Nuri while traveling near Mistwood, who saw her as an intruder and fought her in a duel, with Nuri armed with a bow while Aspen was barehanded, but eventually things settled down, with Aspen in distress, Nuri found out about her dark condition, alongside the heavy anxiety and disconnection with people that comes with it, and decides to bring her along and protect her, in hopes of finding some way to treat her curse, having seen something similar in Shade.