There was no hesitation or delay the moment the hostilities were met, but the predatory aggression in the man's soul stirred. He took one step forward before the surge of animal wrath overcame him. It was instantaneous, like being thrust out from the dingy cave they had been plumbing into the beating sun, and all it wished to do now was strike back, much more ferociously than it had prior. The little dragonkin and the drakes? They did not evoke this supernatural rage but now was different, distinctly different. So with a shifting of form and a labored snarl, the predatory form was manifest again as it strained the very bonds of thinly veiled humanity and ultimately broke them.

Far stronger, far faster, it carried forward with defiant ease despite the armor it wore, all the while its eyes burned with intent as the moonlit halo of silvery power drifted off its changed shape. The tiger of a man gave a guttural snarl, its dark lips teasing up and its coarse whiskers splayed, ears drawn back the moment it intercepted the front of the conflict. From there, balancing itself upon large, pawed feet, it provided a sweeping area it could strike between its great scale and the reach of a striped limb; anything and everything that threatened them it would strike out at with vicious abandon.

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Brannor uses his Shapechanger ability as an action to shapechange into his Hybrid Form and assume its benefits, notably being now a Large creature and gaining extra attacks. He then moves to interpose himself against the hesitating enemy and block the movement in so that they must pass him, Orchid, and or Torus in some order to reach Kyra or Parum.[/hider]
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