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Nightsinger - Tauren Cannibal

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Fleshing this character out more, my cannibal hobo druid lady.
Iv got a lot of thoughts so prepare to be crit by WALL 'O 'TEXT

Name: Nightsinger - Gender: Female - Age: Midlife, 46 yrs human equiv.
Class: Druid - Professions: Skinning & Leatherworking - Home: Mulgore

Physical appearance:
~Generally unkempt mane and fur, she cuts it herself and it is rather lopsided
~Very lean and muscular, lanky frame & broad shoulders
~She has no horns, they never budded, others made a lot of fuss over this, she never cared either way. Slightly overgrown hooves, sharp spurrs.
~ Slightly puckered/wrinkled lips, snaggle fangs & mouth is generally similar to that of a big cat’s with the dark lips. 
~Hands are very worn/scarred from skinning and leatherworking. 2 deep scars along her neck from a near fatal goring.

Background & personality tidbits:
~ Nightsinger is a psychopath, she feels very little emotionally and cannot make connections with other people. Her moral compass is very diminished and her empathy nonexistent. She is very intelligent and has learned how to interact with regular society without drawing too much suspicion. 
However she avoids living with others and keeps contact with other tauren to a minimum.

~ The only time Nightsinger ever feels a strong emotion is during the hunt, kill & consumption of a living creature. She lives for these intense moments. She does not however enjoy inflicting pain or torture on a creature. She is definitely not a sadist, her kills being as close to a one shot and as easy as she can inflict them.

~ Technically this taureness flunked out of druid training. The only form she could ever assume in front of instructors was her travel form. Which was most unusually a coyote, similar to the prairy stalkers native to mulgore’s plains. This was the only transformation they could ever coax out of her.
It is said that she takes the form of a coyote due to it being the first living thing she killed as a child. Her name was not originally Nightsinger but others started calling her that after her unusual form.
Later she assumed cat (cougar) and bear (grizzly) form under her own instruction. 
((It is my headcanon that druids must mark themselves in transformation with the markings of elune, or other racial, distinguishing features. So that non druids may know they are not wild animals. None of Nightsinger’s forms are marked so she can blend in amongst the wild creatures)).

~ As a cannibal, Nightsinger eats very little other than tauren meat. Her favorite prey are young adult bulls, the vulnerable ones just starting out on their adventures. She will not turn her nose up at female tauren but she prefers the larger steaks (& flavor) of the males. She has even been known to kill and eat children when the situation is dire.
Since she favors such large prey she is an ambush predator. Relying on stealth to get her close enough to strike. She will attempt to grapple a bull’s back and deliver a spine severing bite to the neck. If her bite misses or the attack turns to combat, she will either run or switch to bear form and slowly maul down the ‘prey’. She never shows her tauren form to prey just incase they escape & bring back a party to hunt her down.

~ When she was in her prime Nightsinger became cocky and attempted to take down a rather huge warrior. He fought her off and in doing so, gored her neck badly with his horns. She barely escaped with her life after that and had to hide out amongst the coyote packs for a few weeks, while guards and plainswalkers attempted to hunt her down. Luckily the bull only had the description of her cat and bear forms & eventually he traveled on.

~ Nightsinger has been skinning and cooking her kills ever since she started & has a masterwork proficiency in collecting hides. She does prefer to cook her tauren meat rather than eat it raw in animal form. Picking up leatherworking along the way to turn all these hides into armor for herself. She is not quite so skilled at this but makes serviceable, comfortable, leather clothing. 
The few times she makes contact with society is to bring her hides and leather garments into camp to sell. She uses the coin to buy essentials to work leather and some other cooking extras.

~ Once she sold some leather gloves to a young female, made out of her own father’s hide. The customer, completely oblivious, said they were the best fit she’d ever worn! 

~ Nightsinger moved on from killing animals to other Tauren quite early in life; just a preteen she was partnered up with another young male ( Windrunner) to complete a right of passage, collaborative hunt.
Windrunner was supposed to navigate and she to track the prey. So intensely was she following the prairy stalker tracks that they soon ended up very far from camp. On a rocky mountainside she lost the trail and Windrunner did not know where the exit to the canyon was. Stranded and lost the two young tauren ended up moving in circles. Windrunner lost his footing on the canyonside and fell, breaking his leg. Now she was stuck starving with this wounded child for days. His mewling ever grinding on her nerves and coyotes drawn nearby by the smell of blood, too timid to approach. 
Eventually she had enough, he was holding her back, she plunged her hunting knife into his neck. Flush and wild with the thrill of taking another’s life, she assumed canine form and tore at him. Tearing chunks of meat from poor Windrunner’s lifeless body. The stalker pack moved in and devoured all but his cracked bones, when they were finished she cautiously tracked them back out into the open valley. Able to make her way home by the stars position, she bathed the blood away and returned to camp. Full of a story about how she and the young bull were separated & how she looked for him for days to no avail. It marked her decline into the creature she is today.


tl;dr illegal cow cougar hunts down young bulls to devour.
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This is...amazing. Wow.