Wolfsegner

## Selfish Wolfsegner

> *"I am pleased you didn't expire before I found you."*
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## Storyline

This character first appears where he happens upon the gravely wounded Listener. He's more concerned about the fact that another creature dared to hunt in his territory, spilling human blood and filling his territory with their scent.

He helps them recover a little by using magical charms, making sure to explain that he expects the Listener to come out of this with a better opinion of wolfsegners. He explains what wolfsegners are and their inherent selfishness, presumably because the Listener doesn't recognize what he is.

The Listener disagrees that all humans are selfish, amusing the wolfsegner. He decides that their presence in his den will be interesting and instructs them to follow him back to it. When they say they can't walk, he picks them up and carries them in.

Not much time has passed by where the Listener awakens after passing out on the way back to his den. He has dressed their wounds but they have become infected and developed a fever. Their recovery is not guaranteed.

He informs them the Listener he will be leaving them alone for a few hours while he tracks down the creature that attacked them on his clearly marked territory. Though his actions suggest that he is concerned for the Listener's welfare he dismisses the idea that his actions are kind or selfless. The sooner they are healed and out of his territory the better but he acknowledges that this will take time due to the severity of their wounds.

He learns that the Listener was looking for fae in the woods, which confuses him as they are also dangerous to humans. He calls them tricksters and avoids as much as possible. He warns them that deals with the fae never end well. His words become more ambiguous, claiming that he has to protect someone as helpless as the them and encouraging them to rest and heal while he is away. He comforts them as they fall asleep, reassuring the Listener that he will protect them even in their dreams.

## Personality

The wolfsegner is highly territorial and greatly offended by the idea that another forest denizen would hunt on his lands. Like all of his kind he is solitary and unused to interacting with other creatures. He considers all of his actions as self-serving due to the fact that he lives alone thus they are selfish by default. As of now it's uncertain whether this territorial, selfish nature could be applied to people.

He has a very poor opinion of humans in general for their treatment of wolfsegner mystics a century ago. Specifically, he hates the hypocrisy of human society, that they forget they do ill against other people so easily but are quick to retaliate when they are the ones harmed. He also considers human selfishness worse than wolfsegner selfishess; humans choose to be selfish while his kind are born that way. Rather than giving in to revenge, he strives to be better than humans to serve as an example.

## Trivia

### Wolfsegner

* Wolfsegners may consider humans as prey but this one doesn't have a taste for it.
* Has wolf ears and a tail but otherwise human features. Has a sense of smell strong enough to detect sickness and rot in the body.
* Wolfsegners are mystics who are talented at making magical charms out of wood and bone. This wolfsegner knows some herbalism as well.
* Is at least 100 years old and able to remember when humans massacred his kind.
* Has some reverence for the stars ("We are all children of the stars") but speaks of the Divine as well.
* Calls the Listener "human" and "stray."

### The Listener

* A human being who was attacked by a creature while looking for the fae and gravely wounded.
* Wants to prove that not all humans are selfish.
* Is aesthetically pleasing, at least to this wolfsegner.

### Fan Theories

* Human civilization has forgotten that wolfsegners exist which is why he explains what he is to the Listener.

## Audio References

All audios can be found in **The Forest of Zetria** playlist here.

1. ↑ Rescued By a Selfish Wolfsegner
2. ↑ Selfish Wolfsegner Looks After You