(33 in tall, ~150 lb) as brumal and relentless as his namesake. his eyes are sharp, flashing silver and gold in turns. his coat is an amalgam of warm and cool greys, flecked with pantherine black. both of his ears, several of his toes, and his tail have long been whittled away by frostbite. in the absence of such wolfish characteristics kaxwaan assumes an uncanny phenotype, akin to

• a distant caniform relative just now thawed out of the last ice age,
  
• or a gargoyle eaten by acid rain,
  
• or the patinated angel who blows on his trumpet, overseeing chernobyl.
  

he is silent not out of inability but out of willfulness; he enjoys games; he wishes to hurt you.