Tea

Tea once fell in love with a man named Fara Maku, but she eventually left him to live in the city of Abuja. However, she soon found that she had been marked by a strange panther, and thereafter, whenever she became angry- which was often, due to the stress of city life- she would turn into a werepanther.

Consumed with the desire for vengeance, Tea joined a group of poachers, seeking out and skinning every panther they could find. In 1996, they decided to do the same to the panther that would be ceremonially released by Fara Maku's tribe. She warned him not to interfere, but he was forced to change into a werepanther to stop them. Tea was now enraged at Fara, since she now knew he was the creature she had been hunting for.

Tea broke from the other poachers to hunt down Fara through the jungle, but she was interrupted by Goliath. Furious, Tea herself became a panther, and forced the gargoyle leader to drop her. In her feline form, she tracked Fara to Karadigi. She was about to finish off Fara, who'd already been shot, but she was stopped by the Avalon travellers and Diane Maza. She told her tale, and it was then that Anansi appeared, revealing that he was the one who had made Fara a were in the first place. Tea's hate turned to the spider, but Anansi swatted her away with ease. The Avalon travellers were able to "slay" Anansi afterward. Tea regretted her actions as a poacher, and the two werepanthers decided that they would use their curse to protect the jungle, and make a sort of atonement. It is there that they remain.

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Tea's name is pronounced "tay-uh."