Coyote (Character)

Coyote is a tribeless psuedo-hermit based mainly in the Barrens and the Stonetalon Mountains. She is distrustful of others, but has found the usefulness in occasional forays into towns and settlements.

=Description=

Coyote is starved by tauren standards, though retains enough lean muscle in her thighs and arms to move with an easy grace; her carriage is confident, though coiled tighter than a goblin spring. It is not unlike an anxious animal in a cage, ready to either strike out violently or flee at the first unexpected incident.

Honey colored eyes are bright, and shine with the desperate, hopeful light of an eternal scavenger; always scanning, always calculating.

Her dappled grey-brown pelt is dull but reasonably clean and well groomed, and her pale hair is tamed by multiple thick braids, occasionally festooned with delicate flowers, pretty leaves, and other small ornamentations.

She outfits herself in comfortable, utilitarian leathers. Soft doeskin breeches and vest move silently with her, and are reinforced only lightly with thicker cuts of kodohide.

She may be considered attractive to those who can see beneath the toll of hardships she has been yoked with, and there is a definite regality to her bones, but at her core she is wild, and that wildness is pervasive.

=History=

Tragedy of one kind or another forced a young tauren child, barely more than a calf, into the world.

Rather than seek refuge amidst a town or with people, she stole away into the wild and - by some miracle of the Earth Mother, surely - she survived.

She scraped together a meager living as something of a wild recluse, though she would be often sighted on the outskirts of settlements or caravans, stealing and scavenging whatever she could. It was for this reason she was named by locals as "The Coyote", for the undeniably similarities between the unknown woman and the rangy, scrawny beasts.

In her later years, Coyote has seen the benefit of trading instead of stealing, though she has yet to accept the concept of living anywhere but in nature.