Pawdra Felicia

Pawdra Felicia (goes by Pawdra publicly) is a priestess-in-training in Treespire, in the nation of Clowderra. As the daughter of the High Priestess and The Tom she has been in training since childhood to not only to be a Clowderra Priestess but eventually take over as High Priestess of Clowderra.

Appearance
Pawdra is a dark purple catfolk with a long haircoat. She has blue eyes and a small white moon-shaped mark on her forehead (which she keeps covered when in public).

Personality

Pawdra is serious and dedicated to her studies. She has lived a privileged and somewhat sheltered life in Treespire, the capital (and only) city of Clowderra as the daughter of the two rulers of the catfolk nation. Although one of many priestesses in training, it is generally accepted by all that Pawdra will follow her mother as High Priestess one day.

Episode 1:
Pawdra spends the day preparing for a great ceremony, the Gloaming, which occurs on the eve of the new year in Clowderra. The Gloaming night is a great celebration among the catfolk, and many other folk come from far and wide to join in the festivities. Sometimes a priestess-in-training who is of particular importance will be ceremoniously inducted on this evening and ascend the great tree called The Spire where she will stay in solitude for a period of time while meditating with the two moons overhead. It is said that she will return when she has reached harmony between herself, the moons, and the earth and she will be given some wisdom by Mother Moon to bring back to her people.

The ceremony started with a parade in which Pawdra, Her mother, and the other priestesses were carried through Treespire in a procession that ended at the Spire itself. At sundown the High Priestess gave a speech explaining the Gloaming ceremony and bestowed on her daughter a pendant that looks like a pearlescent, white marble and was referred to as a 'moonstone'.

Despite the gravity of this ceremony it is only a portion of the Gloaming eve and honestly most catfolk are just there for the nip.

After ascending the stairs to a secluded room at the top of the Spire and having enough time to realize what weeks to months in solitude was going to be like, her mother showed up wearing dark robes and urging her to follow in silence. After leading her through back rooms and hallways of the Spire, the High Priestess blacked out Pawdra's moon-mark and gave her traveling clothes. Her mother explained that she would not actually be in solitude for the gloaming, but rather would be going on a quest. She gave Pawdra a pack of supplies and dark coloured traveling clothes.

Pawdra was instructed to remain unseen, for the rest of the folk need to believe that she is still in the tower doing her Gloaming. She was to make her way to The Tom's office where she would meet a bear and a weasel who had been hired to escort her. Together they would travel to Whitecliff in the far south of Bountroumia where she was to present herself to the Circle of Druids and show them her moonstone pendant and her forehead marking and they would explain to her what must be done. Her mother stated "This pilgrimage is very important for us to maintain Clowderra as we know it."

Making her way silently to The Tom's office she encountered Tolbert and Finn, along with Saul (her father's longtime employee). Finn was skeptical of her 'peasant moggie' garb and as an explanation she told him (and Tolbert) that she was a spy for the Tom and that's why they had to escort her, they believed her story and the three left by way of an old logging road that Pawdra was familiar with. Along the journey they were ambushed by several jackrabbits who they defeated in battle, killing the leader. Pawdra recognized the leader as Redclaw, a rival of her fathers and the note that he held suggested he was trailing Tolbert and Finn for the chest of goods they had (the decoy 'delivery'). During the battle Pawdra hid her magical abilities.