# Zuleika Toranescu

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> [!infobox]
> ![zuleika toranescu](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/zuleika-toranescu.webp)
> **Title:** Emil's Mate, Keeper of the Shrine
> **Region:** [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-werewolf-den.md)
> **Starting attitude:** indifferent
> **Pronouns:** she/her
> **In a fight:** [Werewolf](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/werewolf.md)

## About

Emil's wife, a werewolf who tends the shrine of Mother Night, grows herbs at the cave mouth and feeds the stolen children when Kiril isn't looking. She wants her husband free and Kiril dead, and she cannot do either alone.

## Where to find them

> [!note]- At points in the story (4)
> - [The Hills above Lake Zarovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-hills-above-lake-zarovich.md), Below the cave: when not zuleika vouched and not den guards cleared and not emil freed and not pack resolved
> - [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md), The great cave: when kiril defeated and emil toranescu with the party and not pack aftermath done
> - [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md), The great cave: when wolf pack leader is “emil”
> - [The Werewolf Den](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-werewolf-den.md), The shrine of Mother Night: when (zuleika vouched or den guards cleared or emil freed) and not pack challenge begun and not pack resolved

## Quests

- [The Children in the Pen](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-children-in-the-pen.md)
- [The Destined Ally](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md)
- [The Pack in the Hills](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-pack-in-the-hills.md) (gives it)