Laika

The Goddess (Formerly)

Infernal

Corbin

Maeri

Laika is a Tiefling Paladin of the Wolf Clan. Her familiar is Gingie, a cute red wolf. She is played by Sophia. She uses she/her pronouns.

Laika has not spent that much time with humans (living in the forest with wolves and all) so she does her best to learn about them, sniffing their butts and howling along to the songs.

She is the only one of the guardians' trio who does not understand the Goddess' sign language as she is not primarily a magic user.

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## Appearance and personality

Laika wears armor covered with hand drawn wolves and list of deities the guardians plan to kill.

She is extremely loyal to her friends and believes in her duties as a guardian, as it one of the only thing she is certain of.

## In *Festival of Lights*

### The Trial

Restless before the Trial of the Guardians, Laika spars with Gingie.

Laika joins the Deer and Crow guardian in front of the forest temple to complete the trial of the guardians. Laika attempts to free Corbin from a trap quickly filling with water through brute force, but fails.

With her divine sense, she realized that the Goddess's room was desecrated.

### The Undertemple

When Corbin finds a hidden cave where the Vioni's vessel was thought to jump off of the island, she climbs down with Fran on her back. She is suddenly pinned to the magnetic floor but is able to observe 3 hand prints on the ceiling.

## In *Into Avelis*

As the entire city of Estra broke apart and fell from the sky, Laika held onto the Goddess, who passed out after failing to keep Estra afloat. They are separated from Fran and Corbin as they plummet towards the world below. They fall into an ocean and nearly drown but luckily drags herself on an island with a still unconscious goddess.

She summons Gingie as her steed and breaks Zerun's amulet. Laika hears screaming and finds that there are other Estrans stranded in the ocean on a piece of rubble. However, in the process of heading over to save them, she also notices Zerun struggling against the waves. Unable to save both due to her waning strength, she decides to pull Zerun to safety. The next morning, the bodies of the family she failed to save washes up on shore. She buries the bodies and strips them of their clothing in preparation of the harsh desert chill.

With her animal companions and an unconscious goddess, she treks across the desert and at the nick of time stumbles into an oasis. She attempts to speak to some camels to get a better understanding of their new environment. Not much information was gained but they did direct the Wolf guardian to the Market place. When the Goddess wakes up, Laika informs the goddess that the island has fallen and attempts to reassure her. Ravenous from their travels across the unforgiving desert, Laika attempts to haggle with some sellers at the food stalls, but ends up getting swindled due to the language barrier. Luckily, Laika and her companions are called over by Professor Sha, who overheard them speaking Old Common. As everyone else steals Sha's breakfast, Laika makes a deal with Sha; where she provides some information about the fallen Island in exchange for some lessons on New Common and translation.

After meeting Sha, the sounds of Corbin's crow calls leads Laika to the distressed teen, reuniting the guardians at last. Fran takes Laika aside to discuss her distrust of the goddess and the lies they have been told on Estra. While Laika agrees that they should be cautious, she stands firm that they should continue to watch over the goddess, especially due to the fact that her identity has been shaped by her responsibilities as a guardian. The tiefling also shares her desire to learn more about the world below as well as of what happened at the Festival of Lights on Estra. She is able to persuade Fran into staying with the goddess and together as they realize their dire mistake of leaving Corbin with Sha.

On the way to the Temple of Wivvel, Laika has a nightmare in the forest about a wolf with bone like teeth, tar-like fur, and a crown of bones. When she wakes up, she shares her dream with the rest of the group and learns that Maeri has also had a dream about the same wolf that was fighting a golden man.

In the Temple of Wivvel, Laika gives up her knowledge and fond memories of the watering pool where the wolves of Estra gathered to drink and rest. She attempts to chase after Falen with Corbin, but fails to catch the demigod.

### The Temple of Iol

Arriving at the Temple of Iol, Laika is shocked to see that the tieflings of Avelis have giant wings. She attempts to speak in infernal to Marcus to test out the language. While he has no trouble understanding, he takes her aside to tell her that they no longer use the "old tongue" in the world below. To learn more about the history of Tieflings, Laika and the guardians head up to the library to meet with Master Farlin, the head librarian. Master Farlin sends Laika on a fetch quest for his tea and bumps into Clarissa, who happens to be the one bringing his tea. Frustrated with Master Farlin's problematic ramblings, Clarissa carts him off to his room and takes over the history lesson. Laika learns that the tielflings were originally a gift from the Force of war to Torva. After the end of the world, the Force Iol gives the tieflings a choice, to become the shepherds of the souls they took, or perish. She also learns that Iol is the one who gifted the tieflings with wings to reach his temples.

### Into Torva's Jaw

Within Torva's Jaw, she helps the guardians pretend to be a cleaning crew and steal some precious items from some of the captains' rooms. As Fran and Corbin create a distraction, she attempts to unlock a door to Torva's living quarters, but fails and is caught by Commander Sylvias. A pair of grey manacles are placed on her wrists and she no longer can cast magic. She is tortured in an attempt to uncover her reasons for infiltrating the base, but she is able to hold her tongue. Once Maeri blinds the entire war base, she headbutts her torturer and is immediately found by Fran and Corbin.

## In "The Grey Manacle"

### Farewell

At Maeri's behest, Laika decides to stay with the Estran refugees to protect them as they find a new place to call home.