A lone and seemingly helpless denizen of the twisted woods.

The foliage parts and from it walks a lone figure that makes their way into the open clearing. You stare for a moment as this figure is something you had never seen before and, though you know that you could reach back into the genetic memory that your master had left to you when creating you and find out what it was you were looking at, you instead take a moment to look at the individual with new eyes. After all, if you depend too much on that which was given to you, how would you ever grow powerful in your own right?

The figure that walks into the clearing is very obviously female, her figure generously proportioned with feminine curves especially at her wide hips and round rear. This is obviously due to the fact that the woman in question is not fully human, her hips and legs shifting from human to animal as broad muscular haunches taper down into dainty hooves. A downy puff of a tail sits at the base of her back above her generously proportioned bottom and tawny fur spotted with white adorns the skin of her legs and back all the way to her shoulders. Her arms and front and face, however, are human in appearance, her tan skin bare of any clothing which leaves her pubic mound, soft belly and large, full breasts bare to your sight.

You feel a stirring in your loins at that and you have to reach down and adjust yourself in your breeches as you continue to study the deer-woman. For that is what she is. If the tail, legs and fur were not enough to tell you that, the small nubs of horns growing out from short chestnut hair atop her head or the large wide doe-eyes of blue would have. A deer-woman, one of the beast-kin that make their lair out in the woods.

That is what the knowledge that had been implanted into you upon your creation tells you. The beast-kin were amalgamations of beast and humanoid and were created by the twisting dark magic of the Umbral Woods working upon humans and elves and other humanoid races that got lost among the trees. The first Beast-kin were the remnants of the northern troops that were trapped behind the barrier when your master erected the magical wall and soon succumbed to the mutative magic of your master's lands. Now the Beast-kin are a race unto themselves, breeding amongst each other and whatever other hapless breeding stock came upon them in their woods. That is why you could see hints of elf, human, orc or even goblin in the offspring of Beast-kin at times.

Speaking of breeding, the scent of the female Beast-kin was heavy in the air and spoke of her being in heat. Pheromones were thick on the breeze and you, again, felt your member stirring in your leather breeches. You were not the only one affected in this fashion, you could tell, as the male goblins behind you all seemed to be antsy and fidgety as they crouched in hiding. One of them even had a hand shoved down the front of the trousers he was unused to wearing and was obviously rubbing at his own erection as one could see the movements even through the clothing. The only one unaffected was Blackmane and you had to think that was because she was female and, therefore, not drawn to the sexual pheromones of a female.

You and the others, however, were very much male and it was starting to become difficult for you to clamp down on your self-control...though you had an inkling in the back of your mind that you should control yourself for...reasons...what were those reasons again?