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UN: La Reina
Family Name: Magro
DH: Romolo Urbano Magro (24)
DW: Lavinia Christiana Magro [née Gibbs] (19)
Status: Low commoner (werewolf / mage)

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Lavinia Gibbs is the daughter of a cobbler, living in a relatively peaceful part of the land (except during the war, where nowhere was peaceful). When she was a young child, she exhibited signs of magical capabilities. Training her to be a mage was hardly easy for her family, but they managed to find her a decent tutor who geared her towards a sort of animalistic magic - it seems like Lavinia is best suited as a sort of Natural Mage, the sort that can 'communicate' with animals. It was a decent education, although Lavinia's family wondered what she will do with her specialty, which is not exactly well-known as useful or lucrative.

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It was during a lone practicing session that Lavinia met a strange black wolf in the woods. Frightened, she tried to use her magic to speak to the wolf, but to her surprise, the wolf began to howl as if in pain. Lavinia watched in horror and wonder as the wolf slowly and excruciatingly morphed into a human male - it was not a wolf, but a lycanthrope. The werewolf's name was Romolo Magro, and he and Lavinia soon found themselves good friends. Romolo explained that he came from a nomadic tribe of werewolves, but a fight had ensued in his getting kicked out of his clan. Lavinia offered him shelter in her home, and as time flied the two of them found themselves married. It was not an easy life for Romolo and Lavinia, but they managed to pull through somehow.

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Background information:

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(Since no-one had taken the liberty, I assume I can "make" my own rules for this part? If not, please tell me, and I'll delete this.)

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Werewolves are a sort of magical creature/human sub-species known for, what else, their human-wolf shape-shifting abilities. The werewolf gene is passed mostly on male offspring, and although females can be carriers of the gene, they only rarely ever experience its symptoms (although a female carrier and a male werewolf can result in having female werewolf offspring - the gene is based on the haemophilia gene in real life). Since they are an entire sub-species of their own, werewolves cannot "infect" other species to become werewolves too, although interbreeding may result in such hybrids. Their human-to/from-wolf transformation can be done at will, but the process is slow and incredibly painful for the werewolf.

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In Kriana - well, in most of the world, actually - werewolves are subject to a discrimination due to most others considering them part-animal or otherwise "less human". There are numerous myths of them being savage, bloodthirsty creatures, and in times past their nomadic lifestyle is the only way for them to avoid constant fighting with the non-werewolves. In truth, werewolves are more human than wolf, with their wolf form simply being a change in physical shape but not in mind, and they are as capable of skills and magical abilities as other species, but the distortion and racism has still branded them as "inferior".

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(I'm kind of basing the general society's stance towards werewolves on the real-world color/nationality racism, but in a higher amount, like in times past when indigenous people were often made slaves and subject to fewer rights.)