Karifeather

Backstory

When Ikkit transformed an antler in a secret forest grove far from any kind of civilisation, it took a while for the lost tine to come to full awareness. It was, for a creature that had never possessed any sort a consciousness, a painful experience - pulling together the fractured and discarded elements of itself, fragments of velvet shedding and flowers tearing through the seams. When the transformation was complete, it stood on four spindly, splintered legs, entirely alone. It found its new mind populated with a knowledge and awareness that it had previously lacked; it knew its boundary, this secret grove bordered by ancient and moss-covered trees. It possessed a sense, alone, of its place in the world - of others also lost, and the pain of this new half-existence. From these gifts, the creature named itself Thyne, ideas coming to it as soft and ephemeral as butterfly wings. It found its voice in the susurration of leaves and tortured creaking of branches moved by the wind; concepts stripped of their words.  

Thyne wanders the grove, and other old forests like it, leading people astray with half-discovered glimpses and trailing flowers. They protects the secrets of these forests: the most ancient trees and forgotten groves, hidden pools and sheltering caves. Outwardly emotionless, they are nonetheless capricious, sometimes showing favour and leading the lost out of the forest, and other times guiding wanderers further astray. In most cases they are fairly benevolent, although the pain of their existence can occasionally drive them to rage. Trespassers who deface Thyne's boundary in any way will almost certainly feel the sharpness of their wrath.