Macharie

Macharie is the last surviving terat after the man-made extinction of his species.

Bio
He is as intelligent as the average human, and a quick learner especially when it comes to languages. This comes in handy, because his native tongue is a dead one: Middle High German.

Even though he’s technically a carnivore, he enjoys some fruits, mostly apples and pears.

Despite his imposing size, Mac is a gentle creature who only has trouble trusting others because of his past. This applies to humans in particular after what happened to him in the fourteenth century. He also deals with feelings of guilt and grief on a daily basis, which has driven him to self-harm several times in the past.

Backstory
Growing up in the area now known as Schwarzwald, Southern Germany, Macharie lived with his fellow terats in a village not far from human civilization. Terats and humans interacted with each other pretty often, even befriending and occasionally falling in love with each other. The same happened to Macharie: at the age of 12, he befriended a human boy named Wibo, and the two of them stayed close for the next two years.

However, everything changed when disaster struck Europe around the year 1350 as the “Black Death” – the bubonic plague – spread throughout the continent, taking millions of lives. The humans in the town near Macharie’s village were no exception, but strangely enough, terats seemed immune to the disease.

Since these were medieval times, where superstition ran rampant and the nature of infectious diseases was still unknown, this led some humans to believe the terats were somehow responsible for the deaths – and with some clever words, they managed to get the other townspeople to join them in attacking the forest village.

Fast-forward several hundred years, and Macharie was the only remaining member of his species, living a life of fleeing and hiding. After what happened on that fateful night, he has trouble trusting and bonding with others – especially humans.