Meet Moriko Halfwolf

Moriko Halfwolf was the mother of Maika Halfwolf and a researcher obsessed with the Shaman Empress. Moriko was respected and feared by both the Cumaea and the Arcanics alike. She was a strong, dangerous woman who clearly valued knowledge, independence and power. Her fascination with the Shaman Empress bordered on obsession, and she seemed willing to go to any ends to achieve her goals endangering her friends on a perilous journey to the Isle of Bones and even deliberately conceiving a child in order to manipulate the power of the Shaman Empress. Seizi Imura remembers Moriko as a fearsome and determined woman and Maika remembers her mother as a woman who never said please, undoubtedly due to her upbringing as the daughter of the Wolf Queen. Moriko initially viewed her daughter as little more than a weapon, treating Maika with coldness to harden her and make her comfortable with the realities of war. Moriko seemed able to expertly suppress her humanity, teaching her infant daughter to fight, normalizing murder and punishing her harshly for showing any weakness.