Prologue
Dragons soared overhead as a lone elf broke away from her kind, slipping nearly unnoticed into the nearby ranks of werecats. Likewise a tall, shaggy werecat approached her in his human form.
One person noticed their strange exchange though, a silvered werecat that was old beyond age. She watched with nervous energy but did nothing to stop it, it was inevitable.
This strange meeting took place only moments before fall of Galbatorix and his cursed black dragon.
Then the tyrant king fell and Eragon took the last of the dragons and everything associated with them to a far off land to train the new Riders.
Everything gradually returned to peace but only a year after this a strange thing happened. The elf maid and the tall werecat had a child, a cursed child some called her.
The elf died in childbirth for unknown reasons and the werecat was slain mysteriously a few days later, leaving the strange half-child parentless and mostly despised.
They called her Katherine Aleron and she called herself Amaya Waneta while many others called her Koko, and Ala Umbra, and Dema, and Frost, and Wind Rider, and Zilla, and She of Many Names, and many others besides. Like werecats she gave her name out to no one so the different races of Alagaësia created different names for her and added to the ever growing list.
In appearance she was mostly elf, if slightly short at four and a half feet, with sharp slanting blue eyes and pointed, if cat-like, ears but she had granted herself with large, black-feathered wings to satisfy her desire to fly and her tail even in humanoid form. She was more cat-like than any elf before her and had claws and sharp teeth like the werecats as well as the ability to take on her cat shape, which was larger than other werecats and a light tawny-silver shade with dark brown tufts that matched her hair.
The werecats argued long and hard about how she would be raised but eventually agreed to give her to the elves because her mother was an elf.
She grew up in the culture of the elves but could not find a place for herself in it.
The elves began to worry about what she would become and many tried to control her but she resisted their control and turned her back on them. By age seventeen she broke away from them all and lived alone at the edge of Ellesméra. Faced with her anger and resistance the elves chose to ignore her and this patterned continued for nearly a hundred years.
That is until something happened that the elves couldn't ignore, how were they to know her elf blood would allow it when no werecats were Riders?