Was hunting for a man like Magnus then was she?

Like any good officer, She has a paln. But, also, any plan seldom survives contact with reality.

She's hot, that outfit is sexy and that she's an athletic warrior is a plus

There she is!
Also has the best outfit and is best wolf ;)

She thinks so.

Hot damn, she's a keeper.

Magnus would fight you.

Heh, I ain't tryin' to take her.

"Likes the taste of contraceptive root"
…….

I heard that in ancient Rome there was a plant that was a reliable contraceptive. Knowing a little about the people at the time I'm not surprised they used it until it was extinct.
One of these days I have to do a thorough check into this though.

People "At the time..."

XD

I'm not saying humanity wasn't usually much more horny than they let on, just that today I hope we would have been smart enough to cultivate such an important plant instead of using it to extinxtion.
I hope.

Haha I get what you;re trying to say now XD Good point, "Dear God we need to preserve this plant!"

I think we have come far as a human race :)

I know what you're talking about. They made it into some kind of oil.

The Lupines and Humans use different roots, Similar spwecies, but different (You can tell by the leaves). It started as a barbarian practice, that followed the Lupines into civilized practice. Barbarians would chew on the roots, and Civilized Lupines berew it into a thick tea, and then put butter in it to make it palatable. Virinia often chews the root like gum. Because the imperials take Lupine recruits of both sexes, the root is a mandatory part of a female legionaire's diet.

Makes sense and thanks for the explanation.

pretty much where I borrowed/stole the idea. Keeps things simpler, especially in table top RPG.

Agreed.
Considering what magic can di ins some it makes sense.
BTW, I read a solution some people came up why there were loincloth and bikini armor in their world. Their answer? Pervert Wizards that enchanted the skimpy 'armor' so it gave the protection of normal armor.

bwah hah hah haa! that's priceless!

"Likes the taste of contraceptive root..."

Hubba hubba

Honestly I was thinking maybe she's uh, a bit rough under the blankets even before I read that XD she seems that type of girl. Does Magnus feel anything for her? Is he aware of her feelings for him?

Do your wolf people secrete any pheromones that they can detect amongst one another? With my Naakaanee, they do, and some times one will utter "I detect the musk of desire when you're around me, don't try to deny it!" even with humans. They have scent glands all the places feral wolves do, including between the toes so they kinda have a natural foot odor fetish.

(it's curious for them to see humans hide their scents, but they do understand fairly quickly how unpleasant and how fast human body odor can become. Also these individual unique scents that attract a man to his woman, and her to him, are barely detectable to human noses. If a human falls in love with a Naakaanee he is usually extremely grateful for any essence of her body that he can detect. Ironically humans consider it strange that the scent of a lover can be alluring, even the scent of her feet, and the Naakaanee wonder why humans desperately try to mask every scent on their bodies at all times.

I remember a wolf who bonded to me loved to smell the heck out of me every time I went into his pen. It was like a 3 minute sniff fest. Not EVERY time. But often. Many wolves seemed to love the scent of my scalp and hair and would scent rub my head. So I left dirty t-shirts that had my scent on them in his pen. He would roll all over them, mingling his scent and my own.

So one day I decided not to bathe for 2 weeks. Literally. The humans around me did not approve. But going into his pen I expected him to go nuts over my scent but instead he sneezed and didn't hang much around me like dang human. That's too much.)

These pheromones are why all the single Naakaanee men and women have to abandon their town during the Time of Loving (estrus) so they won't be bamboozled by lust and be forced to marry someone they might not actually love. The scent of pheromones in the air is too much for them to bear and mistakes can happen. It's a two edged sword, a period (no pun intended) of intense physical bonding that lasts a month and bonds married couples, or a time or tormented temptations for the single men and women.

Sorry I don't know why I wrote all that, it's 6 am and here I am.

I should add we actually did have a wolf who had a real foot fetish for human feet. He would always beg you to take your boots or shoes off so he could smell your feet better. One day I indulged him just to see what would happen. I must tell you only once scent is associated with sex for them, others are just like wearing scented makeup to make them stand out, or that tickles their noses.

So anyway I take my boot off and he goes into wolf mode, pupils dialated, forgets I'm fragile human.

"I'm going to take it. I want it. Give it to me." he says.

"The boot?" I ask this hundred eighty pound apex predator I have just exposed my tender human foot to.

"No." he says, eyes wide as he's opening his mouth.

"The foot."

It was one of those times I was reminded harshly that I was in a pen with what amounted to a wild animal with just enough contact with humans to be sociable. He was a good wolf otherwise and actually was in a situation where he was in pain and being harassed by people but never snapped at any of them, after a surgery, long story, we didn't know the vet screwed up and didn't give him any pain meds.

We were trying to get him to lay down, turns out he was in agony and we all thought he was stoned on pain meds. Terrible vet. That was one of many awful mistakes that vet made, including wanting to put that same wolf down for a malady he didn't have. I did a Google search and convinced the sanctuary owner to let him live in spite of the veterinarians dire prognosis. He lived a full life after that, the vet being wrong and all.

Anyway it was a fearful task to get my boot back on, because he was prodding my foot very hard and nipping at my sock the whole time. "God, that was dumb, Dave, why are you this way?" I asked myself constantly backing out of his enclosure XD

He later was scanned in for a movie, and his Visage appeared in several popular teenage movies. And yes, he did want me to remove my boot again for a while when I would hang out with his pack. I never did because when a wolf goes into wolf mode they forget what they learned in the HR meeting "when a human says no, you should stop being a wolf."

It just goes right out the window.

Darn it. Sorry. Now it's 630 okay I'm don

I have had some (Limited) exposure to wolves. One they were large. and two growing up with dogs, wolves have a much more direct set of expressions than dogs. You know exactly how a wolf feels just by looking tat them, if you speak dog. I try to put that across with the Lupines.

There is a Pheromone component to the Lupine attraction. It makes it easy to discern clan members from those that look similar. Every so often one is born with a "golden Nose" and they can make money diagnosing illnesses, or seeing if one is getting cheated on spices, or track people from more cold trails (or in the rain for a while). As the Lupines got civilized, and lived in larger, non family groups in towns and cities, they started using scented corn starch as a grooming powder, (which made their fur, brushed out, look amazing) Scented oils and perfumes allowed one to avoid several social faux pas. Being around Lupines forced the humans to up their bathing and grooming game, as well, trying not to live up to the epithet "stink ape". This also forced towns to cover their sewers, and pass laws about improper disposal of bodily wastes. Mixed Lupine/ Human towns are cleaner than pure Human towns in the hinterlands. Still it takes a strong constitution for a Lupine to visit the imperial capital, unless they are born there, and somewhat inured to the smell. Barbarians didn't mask their scents, until very recently, but then the powder may be a fad, but it does explain the disdain the townsfolk have for visiting barbarians, unless they know them personally.

Yeah, not to get to detailed about intimate relationships, but Virinia likes the "D", and likes it a bit rough, but more often spontaneous. Magnus adores her.. She's a good listener. She turns her bad days in to comedy monologues that make him laugh. They do not share a chain of command, so they can discuss things with each other . He's one o the few people he can truly relax with. part of the reason he's in a fowl mood is that he has been sent away for more than a year with this smelly barbarian, disrupting his domestic plans.

Dude, I love your detailed, in depth, well thought out explanations man. I thank you for your attention to detail and depth of character :)

And now Asheru's dynamic with Magnus makes a ton of sense. Will Asheru ever find love, though? She is considered a barbarian?

it's not incapable. In the story, she gets close to a Semi-barbarian to the east, but because she is on the Job, nothing further happens but she remembers his kindness. she's young though, so there is time.

It would be great to see an illustration with Asheru and her lover.
I've always had a hard time seeing this beautiful wolf bite the dust with Magnus.
To see her happy would be a nice gift !

It is always so fascinating to read about your world.

By the way, I wonder if your lupines have same odor preferences with humans. Do they have similar preferences, or have different innate preferences but aquire taste for scents that humans tend to enjoy?

Probably the latter, though unscented cornstarch is probably more popular than the stuff the Nobles prefer.

Gotta respect a lady who can drink above her weight class.

it takes practice. I saw a tiny German woman down a pint once, with no discernable imparement, except her jokes got sharper.

I believe she could pull it off if she was "light". Kangaroo mice have little legs but they can jump pretty high for such a little thing. Scott's wolf people are weaker, physically, than humans in his word, so she may be a dainty little thing with enough muscles to leap pretty far.

the Lupines are lightly built, and yes weaker than humans ( like humans are weaker than primates), but they are durable. She's probably around 100- 110 lbs and maybe 5'4" (Heights are variable with digitigrade legs), but she's very fit, and works herself and her troops about 1 -2 hours a day, including runs. If she's drilling human troops, there is less run and more PT.

She doesn't weigh all that much, maybe 100-110 lbs, and It was a late night drawing. Look her up in other pics and see what she looks like. her physique was based on a very fit porn star from the 90's, though. Naked pictures were good sketching references to get bodies and muscles right in weird poses <)__<;

I like her even more, now! Good to see more backstory on the characters.

Perhaps you might profile Asheru's family...

That is a good idea.

You could start with Asheru

Asheru is already pretty well known from the story. Little is known about her brother, uncle, or parents.

Yes it's true, but I think many people love her and probably would love it

Imagining her and Vergeh swapping war stories over a brew.

Oh totally. Virinia would dish teh dirt.

She's cool! She can jump so high, wow @_@ I'm fond of her design, the armor is also really cool. About what age would she, Magnus, and Asheru be, approximately? I'm just curious.

(Also looking forward to seeing this colored in cel style!)

It's more like she can leap through a second story window. It's a cunning Lupine trick. Magnus is probbly about 30-31. Virninia is about 27-28, but has biin in the army since she was 16 or so. Asheru is around 15-16.

She's a woman that's a damn good keeper. She ain't no wallflower.