He is a fighter who happened to fall in love with a sorceress which happened to have a over protective wizard father and he held a dim view of people who had no magic training and really despise people who are trained solely in the Pharisaical arts. His daughter has no such problems with such things. She was wary at first and they kept there relationship secret for about a year before her father found out.

During the fight that ensued her father miscast a summoning spell, at the time they didn't know that it happened to bind the fighter with a dire wolf. It caused a drain in the fighter's energy and he fled the town to hopefully see if he could get his love out of town later before her father could finish him. Unusaly, it took several days to get his strength back.

After his strength returned that's when the changes started. At first he thought he might have gotten a cold while he was healing, but then that's when he noticed a fine blueish fuzz stated to spread over his body. As that was happening his feet started to feel funny as they started to grow claws and the bones increased in density and as it spread over his body his hands went though the same process. his teeth started to sharpen and his jaw and nose started to push out into a muzzle and his sense of smell increased.

After the changes stopped he started to feel better rapidly. As soon as he felt well enough he deiced to try to convince his love to believe that it was him and to leave with him. he felt rather confident that she would after how her father tried to keep him from her. So when night fell he did his best to sneak in to town and to her home. After a few close calls due to his lack of balance due to his new anatomy he got to her home and found her father dead killed by an ornate blade still in his back. After he decided to remove and pocked the dagger he hurriedly made his way to his love's room to find it like a storm had been though with scorch marks on the walls and blades and blade marks in and on the furnicher. He decided to try to find something to see if his love had survived. That's when he found the note she had started to write and found that she was going to leave town and try and find him since she thought he had fled her father to a different town and was afraid to come back. As he read on he found that the note changed tone to a rushed hastily done note that she was attacked by unknown people for unknown reasons and hoped some one would find this note and find and give to the one she loved. After he read this he made a vow to find her and stop the people who threatened her life, if they were still trying to kill her.

as the year wore on he began to discover he had a knack for, although he didn't like it at first, theft and other skills that allowed him to better improve his chances to find his love and hide his appearance from others. he also started to learn how to talk to people to better get information from them. Witch is how he found out he was getting close to finding his love and fining hints on who is after her.