Profile
Name: Foxtail
Gender: none
Pronouns: they/them
Age: 6 years (equivalent ~20)
Tribe: Ruin-Walkers (formerly Wound-Menders)
Role: scholar, healer
A youthful, curious dog -- kind-hearted, and maybe lacking a bit in street-smarts for all their academic knowledge. Their home-tribe, the Wound-Menders, consider Foxtail a prodigy: they are one of the few dogs alive to be able to easily read the writing of the long-lost humans. The Wound-Menders encouraged Foxtail to stay and dedicate themself to the study of healing, but Foxtail was restless. They wanted to see the world, to learn... but more than anything else, they wanted to discover where the humans really went. Were they really all gone, all dead?
Foxtail is indeed a skilled healer, at least as much as a dog can be. They carry with them a satchel full of medicines left behind by the humans when they disappeared, and they know well how to use them, having spent years in study and apprenticeship with the Wound-Mender tribe. But their passion lies with history. Given the choice, they might spend all their time with their snout buried in some book or another... but their ambition to discover what happened to the authors of those ancient texts is enough to motivate them to explore. They know there is more out there to be discovered.
The Ruin-Walkers, an open and nomadic tribe, took in Foxtail (though Foxtail doesn't see this joining forces for what it really is: a friendly tribe trying very hard to keep the smart but oblivious scholar from being killed). The Ruin-Walkers, like many dogs outside of the Wound-Mender tribe's periphery, view the humans as powerful spiritual beings -- gods. To them, Foxtail is, though sometimes bumbling, regarded with a level of awe and superstition for being able to understand the words of the Tall Ones, and even make use of the mysterious objects they left behind. Foxtail doesn't agree with that view, but they're respectful of the Ruin-Walkers' beliefs and customs.
