Combat Style: Unarmed combat, highly aggressive and reckless
Special Talent(s): Fists of Lykaea: summons two level-scaled wolves named “Lykaea’s Right Fist” and “Lykaea’s Left Fist”, respectively.
These wolves do respectable damage, but only last for around 30 seconds.
Lykaea’s Left Fist wolf attacks very quickly, but weakly; her lightning left jab
Lykaea’s Right Fist wolf hits much harder, but slowly; her strong right hook
She also regenerates in combat similar to a troll, and has a number of perks that greatly enhance her unarmed damage, such as
Greatly increased unarmed Attack Speed
Unarmed Attacks ignore a large percentage of enemy armor
Increased Unarmed damage that scales with level
Lykaea is the closest equivalent to a Tamrielic Darwinist who believes in her own strength above all else. Her most important personality trait is an obsessive desire to become stronger, and a compulsive need to challenge anyone who might be stronger than her to combat.
Beast Nymphii heal very fast to begin with, and Lykaea heals even faster than most. She won’t regrow lost limbs in a single day, but she can recover from borderline mortal wounds at a rate that would put a troll to shame.
As a result of this combination of obsession with dueling and extremely rapid recovery, anyone who can beat her should probably expect to have to defeat the same crazy wolf girl a half dozen times or more in a single day.
Quite often she has to postpone her challenges to allow her opponents time to recover when they get exhausted after fighting her over and over. She has no interest in defeating someone who isn’t at their best, that proves nothing.
Is willing to fight to the death if necessary, but strongly prefers not to. Her explanation is that the predator who kills off all but the weakest prey is doomed to become weak herself.
Snarky and sarcastic towards those she believes weak. Feels that respect is something that one must claim, it is never given freely.
Strongly opposes rule of the strong by the weak, she is probably a Stormcloak sympathizer at heart, though she would disapprove of Ulfric’s reliance on diplomacy and military maneuvering over fighting and leading in person.
She bases a lot of her philosophy on her understanding of wolves, with concepts like pack dominance, bravery in the face of a stronger opponent opponent, and so on being central to her identity.
Hates any kind of deception, which she views as weakness. Can be extremely stealthy, but is more likely to sneak up right behind someone and loudly shout TURN AND FACE ME COWARD! before she actually attacks.
She knows she is a Nymph, but believes she is a werewolf subtype of nymph. Since werewolves are not actually a race, this is impossible.
In reality she is a Beast Nymph with the blood of a Lilmothiit, a fox-like beastman. She would be very upset to learn the truth, as she views the fox as a weak prey creature.
She fights barehanded with a brawler style, and has bragged that she can punch a hole in a castle wall with only her fists. As unlikely as this sounds, it may only be a slight exaggeration.
In any fight that isn’t ritualistic combat Lykaea has a tendency to hurl herself headlong into battle with no regard for her own safety, fighting with a savage fury until she gets knocked out, which happens quite often due to her berserker fighting style and lack of armor. Her greatest strength is that despite this, and until she is well and truly dead, she will always get back up and will always keep fighting; So if her foes think they have defeated her and turn away to engage someone else, she will be on her feet once more before they know what hit them.
She will proudly boast that "LYKAEA COVERS HER BODY FOR NO MAN!!!" but despite this, she still wears more clothes than your average Nymph.
She hangs around near refugee’s rest and regularly mocks followers of Boethiah on their way to the Saecullum. Despite the fact that she spends most of her time challenging opponents to duels or otherwise engaged in forms of ritual combat, endeavours favored by Boethiah, she holds only contempt for Daedric cultists as being hopeless weaklings desperate to win favor with a being far stronger than themselves.
Likewise, she views the Daedric princes as cowards who can only amuse themselves by toying with those weaker than they are. Given how vocal she is about these opinions, it’s a wonder she has lived as long as she has.
Yulia was the first person she had ever met who was able to defeat her again and again without tiring, for three entire days and nights. At the end of the third night Yulia simply refused to fight her any more, saying “if you wish to gain strength you must go and train. Though we both might have eternal lives, I will waste no more of mine on your pride” Lykaea has considered the two of them to be rivals ever since.
She and Yulia rarely see eye to eye on anything, but they both agree that most Nymphii live foolishly and squander the true potential that their gift of eternal youth offers them. Lykaea will eagerly demonstrate her considerable strength as a way to persuade naive young Nymphii of what they could become if they attempt to have more than just an eternity of leisure.
