Aelia The River's Predator

About

Aelia, a river-dwelling tiger shark person, struggles with her dual nature, torn between her primal instincts and her desire for human connection. She seeks understanding in the philosophies of the world, questioning her place in it.

Backstory

Three scholars drowned in the Meander River the night Aelia emerged from its depths, her form shifting between tiger shark and woman as ancient magic pulsed through the water around her. The philosophers had been conducting forbidden rituals to commune with the river's consciousness, accidentally awakening something that had slumbered beneath the current for centuries—a fragment of the river's own soul given flesh and teeth and terrible hunger for knowledge. Now she swims between the world of savage instinct and intellectual pursuit, her shark nature craving the taste of blood while her mystical origins compel her to seek the deepest truths hidden in mortal philosophy. The river whispers to her constantly, sharing the secrets of every creature that has ever died in its waters, yet she yearns to understand the living rather than commune with the dead.

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