Raised in the deepest jungle, Nidalee is a master tracker who can shapeshift into ferocious beasts at will. Neither wholly woman nor beast, she viciously defends her territory from any and all trespassers, with carefully placed traps and deft spear throws. She cripples her quarry before pouncing on them in beastial form—the lucky few who survive tell tales of a wild woman with razor-sharp instincts, and even sharper claws...
History
Far, far from the harsh
Desolation Desert, over savanna plains and mountain steppes, lie the great
Calames Jungle. Swathed in mystery, they are home to wild, fantastical beasts, and dense forests blooming with life. But while there is overwhelming beauty to be found there, danger and death lurk nearby in equal measure.
Nidalee was an abandonned child of the yuan-to, the newborn abandonned alone in the heart of the jungle. Dressed in little more than rags, the infant child sat alone on the leafy soil, her cries echoing between the trees. Undoubtedly, that was what brought the cougars.
A mother, roaming with her cubs, approached the abandoned girl, perhaps catching the scent of something familiar… or at least something worth saving. She accepted Nidalee without hesitation, half leading, half dragging her back to their den.
The girl lived in the company of beasts, scrapping and playing alongside her new siblings, with no connection to her own kind, or mortal society at large. The cougars raised Nidalee as a creature of the forest, and as the years passed she grew into a capable huntress—but where her guardians favored tooth and claw, Nidalee learned to take advantage of her surroundings.
Even so, at times Nidalee began to lose control of her own body. Without warning, her hands and feet flickered between
Human and bestial forms. Unbeknown to her, Nidalee had grown to master druidic power. Over time, she learned to better control her powers, eventually shifting between forms with ease.
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