The Werewolf Alchemist

Are you off somewhere reciting incantations?
Sim sala bim on your tongue
Carving off the hair of someone's young

An alchemist and magician who gave up their humanity to become a beast. The clay mask is a permanent part of their face and is present in all  of their forms, maintaining roughly the same size in all of them. Has  alchemical/arcane tattoos on their body where the ragged patches of fur  haven't completely overgrown the skin.

The fullness of moon passively affects their body; progressively becoming more bestial as it waxes and more human-like as it wanes. Can also consciously shift into various forms, one of the most common being akin to a regular wolf, but larger. Another of their forms is that is a huge and powerful, but slavering and savage beast. They no longer have a use for this form and rarely shift into it, but may accidentally shift into it during a particularly powerful full moon while in a emotional heightened state.

Spends their days studying magic in their hovel in the mountains or living as a wolf out in the wilds. Still likes to collect magical baubles and trinkets so their shack looks like a crow's nest. Was vengeful, misanthropic and ambitious in the past, but has calmed a lot more since fucking off into the wilderness for decades to go touch grass. Now just a recluse who is purposefully unlearning how to be a human or how society works. Just kind of neutral about humans as long as any stay off their lawn.

char insp: howl/ oki/ blaidd