Name: Tom, last name unknown
Age: 20
DOB: exact date unknown
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 220 pounds
Physical description: Tall, thin but muscular, tanned, with a short beard.
Eye color: Green
Hair color & style: shoulder length curly brown, sometimes pulled back into a pony tail.
Distinguishing features (piercing, scars, birthmarks, etc): scars on his wrists from chains, and marks on his back from whips
Physical imperfections/would like most to change: see scars
Physical illnesses or afflictions: nothing major
Clothing style/favorite outfits: brown leather pants and a green tunic
Powers/special abilities (and their limitations): Werewolf, keeps his sanity during transformation (Well, usually anyway:-0 ), though his instincts change from that of a human to those of a wolf. Unlike other werewolves, Tom’s wolf form has skin and fur made of gold and emerald green eyes. All of Tom’s senses are higher than normal. Tom can change to his wolf form at will, but cannot maintain the form for more than about 8 hours at a time, except during the week of the full moon, when he turns into a wolf whether he wants to or not.
Weapons/fighting style: Tom is most at home with using his own body as a weapon, along with small blades, he is also deadly with a whip, and a fairly good staff fighter.
Ethnic group: Werewolf
Family background/lineage: son of Lycaon, the man who Zeus first cursed to become a wolf.
Education: Tom was raised from the time he was three to know all that could be known about the gods, he knows how to read and right, and can pass as a priest in almost any temple if he wishes, as he has been thoroughly educated as to the rituals and customs of the various priesthoods, though knows little of day-to-day life
Skills, abilities and talents: Tom can track nearly anything in the wilderness, and can beat nearly anything while fighting in the woods, though he is less skilled in an open battlefield. He is also good at disguising himself
Areas of expertise: mythology, specifically the gods and their various strengths and weaknesses.
Weakness(es): Silver when in his wolf form and anything that would hurt a normal human while in his human form
Occupation: Student
Past Occupations (if any): Escaped prisoner, living goldmine

~Personality~

Psychological description: Generally fairly good-natured and easy going, unless pushed too far, at which point he has been known to lose control of his wolfish instincts, and kill and eat his enemies.
Good, bad or neutral: usually good.
General personality type: Cheerful
Introvert/extrovert: varies with mood
Method of dealing with anger: Have a snack :)
Philosophy of life: The saying that 'they can kill you but not eat you' no longer applies to you, do the wrong thing and I may just prove it!
Fears: Hunters, gold miners
Manias/Obsessions: Cages piss me off
Pet peeves and gripes: People staring. I hate that!
Relationships with parents/family: non existent
Things that make uncomfortable or embarrass: Lack of knowledge of the everyday world
Most painful things in one's life: being used as a guinea pig and an assassin
Traumas/psychological scars from the past: see above
Sexual orientation: likes girls
Most crucial experience(s) that helped mold the character's personality/attitude: Tom was experimented on by a god; he does not know which one. He was then raised by a hermit, for the specific purpose of killing Zeus
Problems with the law/authority (if so, for what?): Never been caught doing anything wrong, and you can't prove it! I have an alibi!

~Goals & Needs~

Short-term goals: Find out who experimented on him, and then betrayed him.
Long-term goals: ^kill them
Short-term needs: A place to stay
Long-term needs: Some kind of family

~General~

Hobbies: hiking, camping, woodsy things
Interests: most menial things, many of them are new to him
Home when away from the academy: Generally finds a cave to hide out in.
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~Character history/Intro story~

Tom was the son of Lycaon, the father of all werewolves, who was cursed by Zeus for sacrificing his son on Zeus’ alter. (Check out pantheon.org for details)

At some point, Lycaon, in an attempt to get revenge on Zeus, formed an alliance with a god who wanted Zeus dead; Tom does not know which god.

Lycaon and the unknown god thought that if a werewolf were given an infusion of hinds blood, that their wolf form would be able to kill a god, Lycaon, not wanting to risk his own life, offered his three-year-old son who had inherited his curse for the task, so the god took Tom.

The god then infused Tom with hinds blood. The god placed tom in a cage, and waited for the moon to rise to see what would happen. When Tom transformed, rather than being grey like his wolf form had been before, his fur was solid gold. Feeling this was a good sign, the god arranged for Tom to be raised by a hermit, who trained tom both to fight, and about the various gods. Tom knows enough to pass as a priest for any of the major gods, and several of the minor ones, he is well versed in all of their habits, strengths, and weaknesses.

After thirteen years of intensive training, Omar, the old hermit, had taught tom to fight viciously, He had also taught Tom to maintain control off his mind when he transformed into his wolf form, though at times it takes a massive act of will to do so.

On his sixteenth birthday, Omar tricked Tom into attacking strife, who was in the local village, playing his usual petty tricks.

Strife was in disguise, and Tom did not know he was a god. Tom attacked him, and severely mauled him, but the power of the hinds blood in his veins was not enough to kill strife, who escaped.

When Tom returned to Omar’s home, he found it burned, and Omar gone. Tom tracked the man into the woods, worried that he had been attacked. Omar, realizing he was trapped, made a deal with a gold miner to trap tom, and shave his fur during his monthly transformation.

Tom found himself imprisoned in a depleted mine, kept in a silver lined cage.

After another three years in prison, the mine shaft caved in.

Tom’s cage kept him from being crushed to death and the cave in bent the bars enough for him to be able to escape.

Tom was then able to dig his way to freedom in his wolf form.

After his escape he wandered the woods for a time, and eventually encountered one of the cadets on vacation from the academy, intrigued, tom went there, and was offered a place to stay.