Appearence & body

As they are spirits they appear to be a black mass of dense liquidish clouds and do not have a real physical body. They solve this problem by building a body for themselves. As they do not want to take anything from the forest, they collect and work with the parts noone needs anymore - dead animals. It is important to find fresh carcasses that have good conditioned body parts. They can change the parts when they break it or find a better conditioned piece. The parts can "go bad", even tho the rotting process is slower. Moss, fungi, plants can form on the body if they slumber for a while. Insects are also common visitors.

Behaviour

They are not social nor friendly, but if they are not bothered or attacked they will harm noone. They are able to talk to humans if they want to. They can communicate with most of the animals in their forest by sounds and body language. - They can have a deep relationship with sorceresses if their spirits match. They are likely to follow them, talk to them and it's common that they ask for help or ask them to join their everyday activities as they wander through the forest. Forest spirits can teach them to use the magic and help them to connect with the forest and it's creatures. Meanwhile a sorceress can be a link between their world and humans. They are likely to eat anything they find enjoyable. Their insides are a mistery but they probably don't have a digestive system as we know it. They aren't likely to hunt down and kill creatures of the forest but trespassing and disrespectful humans are on the menu. They need to keep something human in their "body" to don't become totally feral and they usually solve this by eating a human.

Hugo's appearene

He choosed a wolf's skull as his head as one of the most fearful predators of the forest. He enjoys wolves' company, we can say that they are his favourite. On top of his skull there are antlers. He decorated it with things he found in the woods. Antlers can varie as these are the parts of him that usually break. He has a long, slim neck with thick, scruffy fur. Muscular at the shoulders. He has a mane that once belonged to a horse but that has no actual function. Maybe it reminds him of human hair. The fur covering his body is usually borrowed from bears. His front lengs belonget to a deer, the strong hindlegs to a bigcat. His paws are big, often borrowed from wolves or bigcats. His tail helps him in climbing and balancing, it's part snake and part rodent. He likes to travel around the forest in his feral form. He is about 1.7 meters tall at the shoulders, slightly bigger than an elk. He prefers to use a deer's legs as front limbs that helps him to galopp at a higher speed. He keeps the strong hinds. He loves to collect feathers he decorates his thick mane with many of them.

Hugo's personality

He is a true loner, haven't talked to any human soul in centuries. He likes to know his place in peace, unbothered. He don't often chase away people as he sees a lot of hikers, tourists, horse riders or kids. He has a big knowledge of the forest and it's magic and spends most of his days minding his own business. He has a den, deep in the woods, at a place that's really hard to enter. He keeps his collected stuffs here, crytals full of magic, his favourite feathers and bones and sometimes make notes on the wall of the cave. He isn't interested in modern stuffs, he don't like cars and the roads crossing his forest.