Elenore "Lobo San Peñafrancia" Fulo

### Likes

Helping the poor, carrying the burden of evil for others, brothers and sisters of the faith

### Dislikes

Heretics, Heathens, Surface-level faith, “virtuous yet ignorant and or arrogant” people

## Magic

### Principle

Enhancement. Purification

**Elenore Fulo**, known to many as the "Wolf or Peñafrancia" is a member of the Martyrdom and a Knight of the Chivalric Order of Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia. The sole survivor of a arcane and biological experiment, she was taken in by the Martyrdom and raised to user her "curse" to become one of its elite defenders and enforcers, a force of zealous fury and righteousness as they would say. In the night, she does not rest, in the dark she is blessed, and in moonlight she fights for the Father.

## Background

Hundreds of missing persons reports and an abnormal usage of leyline mana led to the Martyrdom’s resident Knights of Nuestra Señora de Peñafrancia, the Chivalric order assigned in the Philippines, tracking down a rogue Arcane Order mage experimenting in the islands. Martyrdom intel led to the discovery of the rogue’s plans of creating a pseudo-werewolf army by experimenting on discreetly kidnapped victims. The rogue was elusive, but after he failed to “renew his subscription fee” for Shiai-shi protection, his hideout was immediately leaked to the Martyrdom and several Knights descended upon him.

Instead of terminating the ogue’s experiments, the Martyrdom's Ordinators continued the process, and eventually ended up with only one surviving subject, a young girl who was drastically altered by the experiments. In an attempt to create a “Golden werewolf-hybrid”, her old black hair turned golden blonde. Her brown eyes also turned gold, a sign of the experiments hitting a gold jackpot. A mixture of curses and Beast magic was forcefully seared into her , as if it was a pseudo-lupine curse etched into her very soul. But this wasn’t the story told to the young Elenore Fulo, as the Knights of Peñafrancia named her.

Young El was taken in by the knightly order and told that she is the only survivor of a twisted experiment by a heathen. Elenore was raised to view the pseudo-werewolf capabilities she had as a necessary evil, a sinner’s curse that she had to carry, a burden that she must bear, like Christ sacrificing himself for humanity’s salvation. Being raised as a good Christian, she gladly followed in the Messiah’s footsteps, acknowledging her “tainted” existence as a necessary evil. While she was raised in a convent as cover, she was not made to take the normal vows nuns would pledge. She was a special kind of sister in the Martyrdom, a pseudo-nun nonetheless, but most of the civilians and even magi that meet her would first assume she is just a harmless member of the clergy. Despite her ability to rip out a sinner’s spine with ease, El made sure to suppress her violent side for the sake of her cover. As she grew from girl to women, El forged herself into a Knight of Peñafrancia, using her unnatural physical abilities to become a powerful weapon of the Martyrdom. El viewed herself a scapegoat for the rest of her brothers and sisters of the faith. She will commit evil so that others should not.

Time and time again, whenever she faces the heretics or the heathen suit-wearing snakes in the Philippines, she would get called out for her rather twisted messiah complex. But like a Knight forever bound to their code of honor, El would shrug these words aside and stay true to the oath she gave in front of the crucified Christ.

*”Even if I carve a guaranteed road to Hell for myself, if it saves even a single person from damnation, even if I die by the dawn all alone, I will not hesitate.”*

She is currently posted in Agihan City, the “capital” for the Martyrdom’s Knightly Order in the Philippines, and she takes her duties VERY seriously. Be it defending Martyrdom grounds and property from heathen magi, undead, magical beasts, and of course, those who are part of heretical orders who dare twist the word of the Lord to justify their groups’ existence. And unlike the other Knightly orders in the Martyrdom, who mostly just stick to guarding their specific bases, El and the Peñafrancia conduct constant espionage operation in and out of their territory and even conducting clandestine acts such as assassination against potential threats to the Martyrdom, to the point where they do not rely on Executors unless large-scale threats appear, undead or greater level magical anomalies.

This also means that El regularly interacts and sometimes even clashes with the members of other organizations that call the Philippines home, earning her the puntastic nickname of “Dogma” from the Snake Tong members in Agihan City, as well as “The Wolf of Peñafrancia”  from others unfortunate enough to have the Martyrdom’s war-hound of a nun set upon them.

## Personality

Sister El is, what many would describe her as, a “uniquely '' zealous member of the Martyrdom and the Chivalry. She follows the virtues of kindness, charity, patience, and temperance. When off-duty, she would help the poor by going on feeding and aid missions of the Daughters of Charity, an apostolic society who shares bases with the Knights of Peñafrancia. Whenever they are sent to the far-flung barangays and villages, where living conditions could reach abysmal levels, Sister El blends in with the other Daughters of Charity nuns, kind, selfless, and very empathic, and hardworking. Even when she just goes out on walks around Naga City, she will not hesitate to give a beggar money, or treat a group of street urchins to a meal. She has forsaken luxuries and excess, like a normal nun you’d see.

Despite her “virtuous” side, she shows absolutely no quarter to the enemies of the Church, rogue magi, vampires, and false organizations who dare fly the flags of God. El can be brutal and merciless when fighting an enemy of the faith. It’s her ruthless efficiency when disposing of threats that have earned her a rather distinguished reputation among the Knights of Peñafrancia. Extreme violence and ruthlessness are “necessary evils” that Elenore and the Knights of Peñafrancia must commit in order to preserve the peace, after all.

These two diametrically opposed sides to El are greatly amplified by the curse etched into to her soul. As the pseudo-werewolf traits and capabilities flow in her veins, so do the amplifications of her desires and emotions. She’ll take charity to the extreme and literally live on nothing but the rations given to knights and give everything else to those in need. But this also means she’ll take the zealous defense of the faith WAY TOO SERIOUSLY and would not hesitate to execute an enemy of the Martyrdom that trespasses territory or pose a serious threat unless they have a really good explanation or if she was given an order by a superior to spare them. Thankfully, she tries her best to follow the virtue of temperance, and is able to suppress her zeal to the point where she doesn’t attack a suspected enemy on sight.

El is rather affable and even found as charming by some people, when she interacts with someone not perceived or designated as an enemy of the Church, which came about thanks to years of training with the Knights and other Martyrdom members. She can be polite and modest when she needs to. One must be able to blend in and present yourself as friendly and even harmless. She didn’t grow up reading and reflecting on the Bible, remembering by heart many prayers, and being able to give faith-related advice for nothing. If you did not know she was secretly a fake-werewolf knight enforcer, you’d just dismiss Sister El as another sister of the Catholic faith.

Even if the tolerating others who are different than you is a virtue she must maintain, El finds that she must use up a lot of resolve to not snap at those who are only “surface-level Christians”, people who go to mass simply for appearances for example, and those who present themselves as a “paragon of virtue” but is all talk and no action. While her first choice is to try and calmly reprimand these people, sometimes the things they say or do could really tempt Sister El to just RIP OUT THEIR HEA- ehem, give them a good lecture.

El fully acknowledges the messed up and twisted ideology she follows when it comes to becoming a weapon for the Church, a tool to commit sin and evil. For if Lord Jesus would give himself up for the sake of many, so shall Elenore Fulo. No matter how imperfect her logic is, is it not beautiful for a human to try and achieve the impossible? This unhealthy (according to others) ideology was most likely brought about by her upbringing in the Martyrdom and Knightly order. Throughout her childhood, they made sure to drill into her mind that she carried with her an impurity, a sin that marks her as a monster, a curse that cannot be removed, but even if she is imperfect, she can still use this as a tool to serve the Lord.

Sometimes after a particularly draining fight, she would order a burger for a job well done. Humanity can’t live on bread alone, after all.

After every fight and mission, El makes sure to confess her sins and receive the sacrament of penance, just like how an assassin would clean their blades after a kill. Say what you want about her, but she is rather thorough when it comes to keeping her sins accounted for by the Church.

El is fluent in English, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Filipino, and the local Bikol dialects in Naga City and neighboring provinces. She particularly utilizes a lot of Latin for incantations.

## Abilities

El’s capabilities are rather straightforward, as expected of a Knight. The Wolf of Peñafrancia specializes in melee combat, utilizing spells and sacraments from the Martyrdom as a secondary weapon. The Pseudo-werewolf “curse” she bears grants her strength, speed, durability, and senses that go beyond human capability. But despite these physical boosts, it is still inferior to the physical powers of actual Werewolves. It’s safe to say that El lies in between human and werewolf. This translates to her outclassing most enemies in raw physical powah alone, an advantage that multiplies when she applies Reinforcement.

She is trained and highly skilled in Peñafrancia-Voulge, a martial art practiced by her knightly order, which focuses on the use of halberds, poleaxes, and other polearms as main weapons while wearing armor. The armor they wear are made of special materials meant to be as light and moldeable as plastic, but as sturdy as the strongest steel. Combine this feather-light weight with high protection and an aggressive style that favors attack over the defensive formation-oriented halberd techniques by other knightly orders, and you got a juggernaut of a woman heading straight towards you with a large versatile weapon. The halberds El and her fellow knights wield are heavily inscribed with prayers that act as anti-spiritual and anti-undead enchantments to enable them to fight against both undead and corporeal beings that need to be “exorcized”, especially when the Inquisitors aren’t around.

El also employs swift and violent hand-to-hand techniques that include grappling and wrestling, which synergizes well with her Pseudo-lupine curse. Most of the time, she prefers throwing hands than using her halberd, but sometimes, you can’t say know to the reach and stopping power of a strike empowered with an “AD MORTEM INIMICUS” chant, utilizing the “Iron Plate Effect”, a martial arts technique primarily used by Inquisitors with, but also adapted by Knights to empower their weapon attacks by amplifying the impacts done. Even a Reinforced suit would buckle under several solid hits of El’s Iron Plated halberd strikes.

El is also not shy when it comes to using firearms. Her aim is surprisingly good for someone who prefers to throw hands than shoot bullets. Sometimes… capping someone with a glock is the most efficient way of disposing of problems.

Her magical abilities are limited to the Lesser Miracles taught by the Chivalry, from healing, exorcism, or reinforcement during combat.

### Falsum Noctis

The curse implanted into El’s soul by an ambitious but uncharismatic magus who had a hard time finding allies to shield him from Association enforcers and Martyrdom agents. The curse was incomplete when the Knights of Peñafrancia killed its creator, but he did leave a lot of notes and instructions behind, as well as a lot of test subjects. El was the only one to survive the experiments that the Martyrdom continued, and perhaps it was because of her being a unique case that she failed to go full werewolf and perhaps would have traded her sanity for more bestial instincts if it wasn’t for her being a unique case among the other test subjects.

Falsum Noctis or “False Night”, essentially amplifies El’s physical capabilities and senses, a step into becoming a werewolf. The curse is also very reliant on the phases of the Moon, and the extent of her body amplifications depend on the current status of the moon in the month. She is strongest during a full moon, and weakest during the New Moon. But don’t underestimate her even during a New Moon. She is still capable of dismantling an average human at minimum curse effect. It is also during a Full Moon that El can assume a full werewolf form, amplifying herself to near Phantasmal Beast-level of strength and speed for around an hour. She rarely uses this, however, as it could make her lose sentience and become nothing more than a rabid beast during the duration of the form, and she could lose consciousness afterwards. She treats this as a last resort, only to be used in the most dire of times. Ironically, even if her human hair and eyes turned gold, her lycan transformation covers her in black fur.