Katherine was born in a house on a hill, overlooking a small farming town. She was the town’s pride and joy, for her excellent feats of strength and endless optimistic attitude. Everybody loved her, and she did her best to reciprocate this love with her skills. She worked hard to please the others.
One starry night, when she was escorting a couple of cows with a couple friends, they were laughing about something or another, when they were attacked by a werewolf. Most of the animals and people accompanying Katherine were slaughtered, and Katherine was no exception. Only her and another girl managed to flee the scene, and not without consequence.
Katherine was afflicted with the curse of lycanthropy, but the curse did not fully complete for her. She was stuck in a state between man and werewolf. Her brand new transformation nearly killed her, if it weren’t for a couple ‘benefactors’ that were able to stitch her back to health.
These benefactors called themselves “The Badman’s Circus.” They put themselves in the business of collecting monsters and people down on their luck, and putting them in fights to survive. Her first round was rough. She was to fight another lupine person, clearly scared out of his mind. She had to kill him, they’d both die a very slow death otherwise. As she watched the life leave his eyes, the first time she’d ever killed a person. That night, she cried herself to sleep.
Katherine was there for a long time. Lived in a large prison complex that housed many people. Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, any race you could think of. They taught her many things. Fighting techniques to survive in the arena, ways to make her own gear, and a very special few taught her how to keep your spirits up in a place like this. She had made friends with a human named Gabriel who made her a special suit of armor, tailor made using metal she won from fighting.
She was not proud of what she did there. She fought dirty at times, going for a low blow if it gave her a tactical advantage. Katherine played to the crowd, creating gory endings for her foes.
After 8 long years, she was given the chance to acquire her freedom. The people had called for her to leave the circus, and was given her chance at a small wish that the people behind the circus would grant. She met face to face with the people behind this place, the pinnacle of evil that took innocent people and melded them into murderers, and with her wish, she broke her chains in half and pulled their skulls from their bodies. The circus fell apart soon after that. With nobody funding it, a prison riot ended up with most people escaping.
