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General Info:

A small number of wolves have come from the North-West. Kalain, looking for redemption, Mu'sha wanting to make him come home, Jove, sent to protect them and Saturne, tagging along insistently like the spoiled brat she is. All drawn from the same pack but for different reasons they will set up home in this more southerly land and draw others to them. They seek to mimic their old pack in many ways - the structure and customs which they so dearly cherish.

The names, aves, from the latin for bird, signifies the pack's reverence for their feathered friends. They will not kill a bird nor in any way disturb them if they can - as they are not wolves natural prey this isn't too hard. They see them as messengers, harbingers and sometimes the words of the gods. They will choose a totemic bird, one of special meaning to their particular group, before the pack will be 'official' in their minds. For this pack it will be the eagle.

This pack has a strong spiritual belief in life after death which generally allows their hunters and scouts to be a little less fearful and their healers and spiritualists to be a lot more comforting. They also believe in rebirth - an old soul being born into a new body - and respect the young accordingly. They do not think that all about the reincarnated will be the same as the old but some things such as intuition or ability may be handed down.

The pack alpha is generally the head of only the wolves concerned with hunting and scouting, the other 'alpha' or head (in this case Kalain) takes charge of the two more empathetic groups. Young wolves may choose which group they wish to join when they are teens or even pups and will train under a slightly more experienced wolf until they come of age. Once grown they will be ranked according to their groups method of differentiating seniority - for the hunters they'd be ranked by skill and daring - perhaps even surpassing those who have been in the group longer.

Each group (as explained below) is headed by a 'beta' who is in overall direct command of making sure things run smoothly in their own group. They are in charge of most discipline and day to day runnings whilst the alpha above them concentrates on bigger cycles, events and interaction between groups as well as supervising new recruits.

They do not, ever, force their teachings on others. They will take some wolves on, help them and succour them but a wolf will not become a member of the pack unless the do understand and abide by the customs. They will generally not say anything about these customs unless asked, though, so they don't make very good missionaries X3 They are happy to live with the fact that others do not believe in what they do an accordingly allow others to believe as they will.

I don't like to make stories and have a total idea of where things are going - I prefer to have a background and just see how things happen. That means more plots can be thrown in the mix and more stuff can happen out of the blue. I tend to find it leads to more fun RP too.

I *do* intend to hopefully organise some events - within and outwith sections. I'd love to find two people (we already have two section heads) who'd be interested in their wolf being a 'beta' of a subgroup and who'd want to help organising such events. Beta owners must be reasonably active! These positions may be switched about if people become totally inactive ^^; See below for open positions!

Territory:

The Aves Pack will live where the eagles do - in the sky. Or, well, as close as they can get. The pack will be formed in an area comfortably homely to the founing core - in mountainous terrain where snow sometimes falls at the tallest reaches right into the summer. They will find a lush plateau almost split into two parts by steep sided walls of stone - the smaller section, almost totally protected from the outside, the worst of the wind and any casual travellers will be where the pack generally stays. The bigger area is large enough to provide the needs food wise for a reasonably sized wolf pack and as the packs grows they can move further down the mountainside onto the lusher plains below for sustenance.

There is a river which folows down into the lagrer plain, and one which dissappears into the mountainside and reappears in the smaller one as a large pond or small lake. The larger part of the plateu also has thick conifer forests which provide cover all year round and sometimes harsh winters may necessitate the moving of the dens to this sheltered spot if the pass between the two areas looks like it might close over with snow.

Fish, mountain goats and deer, smaller animals in abundance. The mountainside may seem frugal at first but is actually bursting with oppertunities for a relatively well organised pack.

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*Noms on Kiro*

Oooo . . . I think I just found Mebani a pack 8O . . . .

He would fit in well with the whole bird thing, because he has a crow that travels with him and that helps him get around, seeing as he's blind. XD So he totally digs birds. o_o

*ponders*

Ooo cool! And here I was thinking we might be short on helper-types ^___^ If you guys are up for joining in then feel free to throw in any ideas of your own. I'm going to be away for possibly up to a week after Saturday (moving house and we have no internet there) but I'll try to sort more details out by then >_>

I can offer Bluebird for the pack.

She was raised until late puppyhood to think she was a bird-as-a-wolf because her father was a wee bit nuts. Since traveling as an adolescent until she became an adult, Bluebird now just sees it as a spiritual totem connection to birds. She loves them and still dreams of flying.

While she is a dreamer and very spiritual, I'm not sure she'd make a good spiritualist. Maybe a helper? Blue follows her instincts and intuition, but is a bit brightly coloured for hunting in snow, and she is pretty kind. Not sure which group she'd fit in though...~

Love the pack idea ^^

Haha totally forgot to put in the sub-ranks I'd meant to do ._.; Basically each wolf will start off as a low rank in each of their respective groups except those who are going straight into the beta positions (we'll work on pottyness for that 8D)

There is no need to move up the ranks if you don't think your wolf'd have the personality to do so but those wolves who do wish to progress will need to show real talent and / or initiative. :3 I'll probably se up some sort of basic rules for this but I don't want it to be too strict : for instance some might be promoted quickly if they prove aptitude.

There will be some sort of initiation ritual based on the group to be joined but those also still have to be confirmed - I'd love to have those with betas to think up some ideas for their own section (though it'll be played like those traditions were handed down from ye olde pack XD). Because of this I'll also be making the rule that the heads of each section must be owned by different people. They can resign and change position etc. etc. at any time but I'd prefer the heads to stay owned by seperate owners ^^;

Sill waiting on the subforum, but as soon as that happens I'll pm people for RPs if they still want 'em. :3