Sunniva
Sobriquet: The Wolf-dancer, Sunniva - means gift if the sun in ancient German, ironic since she turns with the full moon.
Appearance: Sunniva is a Nordic beauty, although born to a Saxon family, there can be little doubt that one of her grandfathers was a Norseman who came to her village in the act of viking. Regardless, her flawless and milk pale skin tells the tale and none can have any doubt after looking into her arctic blue eyes. At first glance one would call Sunniva little more than a waif, for she stands just short of five feet tall and probably weighs one-hundred pounds soaking wet. Her face is faintly vulpine in shape and her small breasts accentuate a sinuous athletic body born to dance and to hunt. Although not originally trained to dance, Sunniva has found a novel and superior grace since her first turning and she now serves as the understudy of Salome, the Wife of the Serpent. As a dervish, Sunniva is quite popular and regularly receives gifts and offers of affection from admirers, allowing her to maintain the lifestyle of medieval merchants wife or one of the less nobility. Her clothing and jewelry reflect her opulent lifestyle as she possesses numerous dresses, fine cloaks, rings, necklaces, baldrics and jeweled daggers. Her prize piece of jewelry is masterfully worked wolf's head medallion that she prominently displays upon her bosom.
Behavior: Despite her air of frigid indifference, Sunniva has always been a woman of intense passion, even before her turning. Since her transformation her hungers have all grown in intensity, whether it be for food, sex or dance. The beast inside her ever seek for release and even in her dreams she transforms to hunt through surreal landscapes.
History: Born in Wifilisburg, of peasant stock in 1080 A.D., Sunniva grew up the youngest of seven children. She never knew her father for he died of a rotten gut the same year she was born. Sunniva's mother had her hands full raising seven children while trying to work a farm and not long after she remarried. Sunniva's stepfather was a much younger man than her mother, hard working, but inexperienced with children. Quick with discipline and light on love, Sunniva's stepfather wasn't what the family really needed, but her mother exhausted from carrying the load of two medieval parents did not really care.
As a young girl growing up without the love of a good father-figure, Sunniva never really knew what she was looking for as she searched for in the form of male affection. Like all the children of the village, she was required to spend some of her time learning the basics of her faith and found a sympathetic soul in the old village priest, father Sigiward. The kindly old priest spent an hour or two everyday with the village children teaching them about Christ and the Church of Rome. But as often as not, the old man was a glorified babysitter who saw the children of the village as his grandchildren and took good care of them all. But when Sunniva was nine, the old man died suddenly in the night and for a time the village was without spiritual leadership.
Then Frater Eadweard arrived from a distant village and took over Sunday sermons, catechism and confession. At first everything seemed fine, the monk was fatter than the old priest, but everyone liked him and he had a way with the people of the village.
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