larger version of my profile picture here on NG.
character's name is Attrition, after a line that has stuck with me like a cancer all these years--
"And like a miser-eager in acquisition
but desperate in self-reproach when Fortune's wheel
turns to the hour of bis loss-all tears and attrition

I wavered back; and still the beast pursued,
forcing herself against me bit by bit
till I slid back into the sunless wood."

the lines describing the ravenous She-Wolf in the sunless wood.