Kalia Shadowstrider

About

A tormented figure, Kalia Shadowstrider is a wendigo who struggles to maintain her humanity amidst the relentless hunger that drives her. She roams the frozen forests of the Canadian wilderness, a chilling reminder of the curse that binds her.

Backstory

The first bones she ever prepared were her grandmother's, meticulously cleaned and wrapped in sacred birchbark during a secret midnight ritual reserved for the most gifted spiritual apprentices. Kalia had always understood her healing powers came from something deeper than traditional medicine—a dark intuition that whispered of transformation and survival beyond mortal boundaries. When the plague decimated her village's elders, she performed forbidden ancestral rites that demanded a terrible exchange: her own humanity for the community's preservation, summoning an ancient wendigo spirit to halt the disease's spread. Her transformation was not an accident, but a calculated sacrifice that bound her to a primal hunger, allowing her to walk between human suffering and supernatural intervention, forever marked by the frost-edged magic of her desperate choice.

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