Ancient: Lila

The Ancient of the Shifters is Lila. Lila is rumored to be a Panwere: a shapeshifter powerful enough to take on multiple animal forms. However, she has historically presented herself as a werelion. Lila has typically been a fairly active Ancient, and often traveled among different shifter communities. She’s known to be a party animal (pun intended) with an easily triggered temper. Despite this, she’s well regarded by the Shifters, who refer to her as their “Mother.”

Lila is known to have been particularly close with Siobhan – the Ancient of the Fae – who died in 1872. After Siobhan’s death, Lila went on a bender that lasted a solid decade, leaving a wake of destruction in the Unbound community that The Bound struggled to hide. Multiple other Ancients worked together to find her and mitigate the worst of her grief-fueled rage. Since that time, Lila has been more reserved and more absent, often sequestering herself alone for months or even years at a time.