"You show a little bit of promise and suddenly is, 'Oh is heretic! Is Blasphemer! Avay with you!' How can help I know better from fools? Lazy charlatans, greedy priests. Calling me changed, calling me monster. Dey vill know monsters."

Haughty, driven, and just a little bit damned, Upyr's hunger for knowledge is both her curse and greatest strength. She can normally be found pouring over tomes, carefully handling pages with her unwieldy claws. She doesn't seem to care that each day she resembles herself less and a wild beast more. All that matters is the work. And, possibly, the praise that comes with it.