Istar, elder of the magic mewpyres of the empire. She was one of the first people who served Queen Sarafina, though she started to work for the queen long before she became a mewpyre.
Originally she wanted to prepare the mewpyre queen to live up the legacy of the vampire and then die with the knowledge that she put her mark on this work through the mewpyres. It was unexpected that the queen made her to an elder with the intention to use the witche's knowledge about magic.
She didn't complaining though … she saw the raise rise of the Empire and took her role to help shaping it. After her bite family had grown to a considerable size, she started her research of magic anew with the intension of helping the Empire further.
While she had many assistance and servants, she never took a mate or lover like other elders… she found the idea to spend time with somebody or raising children as… time wasting. Her life may not end. At least not as long no natural end of a mewpyre's life was known, she would spend her entire existence with researching. The only breaks she allowed herself were the ones forced by the body and her duties as Elder.
Like the order she carried out right now… or at least she thought that way in the beginning.
In front of her lied a human. A human named Guil. Sarafina had bitten him by herself, meaning he was to be considered as a future Elder. Also knowing Sarafina's nature as the first mewpyre, nobody could predict the abilities of this future mewpyre.
She was annoyed that she were tasked with the mundane job of overlooking his transformation. There were many others better suited for this job. However, upon hearing who bit him and his secret, she was more than anxious to proceed with the task.
From what she could tell the poison was still at the beginning state.
While it is called mewpyre poisen, it is more of a paralyze drug combined with a virus. And this virus is was the necessary part for the transformation.
The first thing the virus did was reprogramming the DNA to match the one of the mewpyres. Then it went further on and infected every cell. This task alone took up to several hours. Once the body was completely infected, it starts started first by rearranging the vital organs to fit a mewpyres body. Since most species are bigger than the average mewpyre, lots of cells got destroyed, the remains reused to get the necessary energy. Following up came the rearrangement of bones, muscles and other body parts into a new body shape. At least in simple words.
This part of the process was the most complicated and critical one. Istar assumed by Guils size, that this part of the transformation would take at least a week. And a few extra days for the tail to be fully grown since humans didn't have any kind of tail.
Every non-necessary cells like mentioned before, were consumed for energy and a complete new organ was also be formed. This new organ has the only duty is to act as blood storage for the vampire side of the mewpyres.
The last part of the procedure was the fur. This last part of the transformation was more or less a final touch before the new mewpyre opened his eyes.
Given how relative fast a non mewpyre becomes a one of their kind, the 'victims' have usually a large appetite and big thirst of blood in the first few days.
Due to her research, Istar kept a large stock of blood in her storage, though for the food… she had to inform the chef in charge to prepare for extra large portions… it's rare that a transforming being stayed in the palace. Normally they would be brought to the hospital where they would have a special department for transformations.
She and some of her must trustful servants kept an eye and Guil and like Istar predicted the changes only became visible a few days after the bite.
He shrunk a little and he lost any kind of hair due to the process. Also some of his bones and muscles were displaced, though what Istar surprised a little was that the body already showed an early stage of a tail. Normally they would only start showing up once the main part of the body reached the intended size of the coming Mewpyre. Also his skin showed already patches of fur.
Due to this unusual part of his transformation she ordered to record every stage of his transformation from this point on, reporting her everything that was unusual.
And the first thing she learned was that he already got his blood storing organ. And that his body was showing an increased blood production. It was like the body wanted to have him sort of ready to cast spells or something like that.
Fearing this unusual behavior of the virus might cause harm, she ordered the infusion of salt water into his system. Which brought her next problem… the transformation process was unpredictable. While it is known what it will do to finish the job, nobody could tell WHEN it would happen. If they put the infusion into a body part that still has had to transform, the needle might be bended or broken in the process. And nothing on his body seemed to be finished for final stage of transformation.
As a result several needles were prepared AND the infusion was relocated every other hour to ensure they didn't blocked any changes of the said body.
During his transformation, Istar performed a few tests to have a first glance on his abilities. Thought these tests only scratched the surface of Guil, to prevent any permanent damage, so of this reason, they are highly inaccurate.
Istar however was still impressed by the results. If these results remained by the accurate ones… then the queen made not only a good but a perfect choice.
Time passed and Istar came to see the final form of the new mewpyre to-be Elder: his feet were black while the legs got pure white. The torso part of the body got grey with a lighter grey on the chest and stomach. Arms and head are white while the hands were black and black rings surrounded his eyes. His tail got white as a black stripes wrapped around it, engulfing the tail tip halfway. The top half is white.
His tail is was also fully grown already and showed signs of slowly waking up. Istar instantly sent a message to her queen… while also informing the chef to prepare the food of their new to-be Elder. With a wide grin, Istar watched Guil now waking up… she knew that Sarafina would ask her to find out his abilities… and she was eager to learn such. Her mind already making plans for finding out how…