I just learned that today is International Dog Day, and as it happens I have just the piece for it! Everyone, this is Daghri the Lake Wolf, Moon-Eyed Dog, She Who Devours and Eater of Evil.
Properly she’s another kimaerha, like Astrhopi and Rhondi, and with them creates a quasi Creator-Preserver-Destroyer triad. My thinking went that Rhondi, as my personal mascot, represents my own creative endeavors, art, writing, and stories. Astrhopi, as the mascot of my publishing company, represents the preservation of those creative works. I only needed a destroyer aspect to complete the triad, like the ancient creator-preserver-destroyer triple goddesses. However, unlike those trios where the destroyer aspect comes last as the crone or death goddess, Daghri is actually the first in my cycle, and specifically destroys spoiled, rotting, and poisonous matter by devouring it, giving Rhondi a clean slate form which to create wonders.
Essentially she eats badness and burps stars.
As the Lake Wolf she is the shadow of Rhondi the Volcano Lion-Chimera in many ways: here a canine body with lion ears, ram’s tail and snakes growing in place of horns. Her coat markings were derived from a clouded leopard and her eyes are both highly reflective and have white sclera, so she can show you both crescents and full glowing discs depending on the angle—hence the appellation Moon-Eyed Dog.
While I created Daghri as a personal character, I am sure she is capable of eating the evil out of other people’s lives, and would be happy to do so. Especially if you have treats.
