Wolwood

Wolwood in mercenary garb

**Wolwood** is a male vampire and potential ally.

## Background

Wolwood was born into wealth and arrogantly believed he was unbeatable in a fight, while in reality, all of his opponents feared the wealth of his family and would always allow him to win any fight he started.

He finally learned his place in the world when a girl small in frame and far too beautiful to be a mere warrior whipped him in a brawl with utter ease. He would later learn that she was actually a vampiress named Chanda. She would be the one who turned him.

After he became a vampire, Wolwood was enamored with Chanda, but came to realize that she was only special from the perspective of humans, but to vampires, she wasn't even a soldier. While he would always be grateful to her for showing him a new world of power, he saw that there was the potential for even more power and left her behind.

Wolwood rose through the ranks and fought constantly to measure himself against all opponents. He lost half of his battles, but was not discouraged, only motivated. Unfortunately, although the leader of his clan praised him openly, Wolwood had not yet realized that vampire lords were most often slain by their subordinates in an overthrow of power, so he saw Wolwood as a threat and conspired to kill him.

One of the leader's most trusted companions, Trishna, had fallen in love with Wolwood and warned him about the danger. So Wolwood fled with her and a few others who were loyal to them to found a new vampire clan in Civelkar.

Over the next hundred years, their small clan of rebels grew to be one of the most powerful vampire clans in the world. Such power did not go unnoticed to the humans, however, and they waged battle against the vampires.

The humans could not defeat the vampires in a frontal attack, so they covertly infiltrated the vampire lair and took Wolwood in his own bed. Since Wolwood was too powerful to engage physically, they instead captured him using holy powers to shackle him and threw him into an underground vault. The vault was sealed with magic and he was left there to grow weak over the decades without any blood to drink.

## Recruitment

Wolwood is sealed inside a vault within the catacombs of Civelkar.

The vault has signs warning not to open it on either side of the door. Miran can use her magic to open the seal and go inside.

Fires light up the chamber as soon as Miran enters, revealing Wolwood sleeping on a stone slab. He wakes up and is impressed that she was able to get inside. After speaking for a bit, Wolwood will ask to join the party so that he can gain power by drinking Miran's blood in exchange for helping her.

After Wolwood joins, the spider cocoon in his vault can provide him with his first animal summoning skill.

## Personality

Wolwood hearkens from wealth and is quite old, so he has a wide vocabulary and will often use more words than necessary to make his point.

Wolwood values power and the unceasing pursuit to acquire more. He hates the weak and those who show pity or mercy.

He loves drinking Miran's blood, as a realm hopper's blood is more powerful than that of a normal human.

He enjoys alchemy and seeking wealth through mining, digging, or grave robbing.

He does not like sewing clothes or harvesting plants. His approval of Miran will slowly decrease over time if her life, her skill points, or his own skill points are below 25%.

## Gameplay

As a vampire, Wolwood specializes in Strength. He also has an innate weakness to fire and takes double damage from burning.

He will not wield spears. He uses thrown weapons in ranged combat.

He will not wear any normal clothes, only vampire attire or armor suits.

Wolwood's skill points are replenished by drinking Miran's blood. This allows him to refill his skill points virtually anywhere, but requires that Miran be healthy enough to donate. If Miran is drunk when Wolwood drinks her blood, he will also gain a small amount of alcohol.

Wolwood's unique talent is the ability to judge the difficulty of the current area.

When Analyzing in combat, Wolwood can identify an enemy's escape conditions and experience value.

### Revenge

If Wolwood leaves the party, he will punish Miran by occasionally visiting her in her sleep and drinking her blood.

Every time Miran sleeps, if she is not diseased, there will be a 10% chance that she wakes up feeling drained, having recovered less than she should have.