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Name: Ralastor
Name Meaning: Portmanteau of "Rocky" and "Alastor"
Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Pack: The Warugaruga
Rank: Alpha Male

Alignment: Neutral Evil
Strengths: Determination, tracking, lying
Weaknesses: Arrogance, rashness, lack of subtlety
Motives: To create a pack that rises above and subjugates all other packs, taking any land it wants and making him the ultimate of alphas. To prove to the world his strength and worthiness.

Parents: NPC
Mate: Ember
Offspring: (By Layla): Sons Nox and Brutus, Daughter Tasso (By Ember): Daughters Corvida and Aithne, Son Volpone
Wolves Met:
Karia (Neutral)
Azul (Neutral)
Istas (Dislike)
Symetric (Neutral)
Mocca (Dislike)
Ember (Respect)
Lizard (Dislike)
Dumaka (Neutral)
Layla (Disdain)


History: Born to the alpha pair of a small pack, Ralastor was the second son of a litter of four. Born bigger than the rest, he quickly learned to use his strength to his advantage to get what he wanted. Despite his clear superiority to his elder brother, however, his parents were traditionalists and declared the oldest would be the next in line to be alpha male.

At a very young age, Ralastor decided he would settle for nothing less than the highest position within the pack. The only requirement was that he be the oldest living son. One day when he and his siblings were left alone while his parents hunted, Ralastor tricked his older brother, Jurano, into walking with him near a cliff's edge. Unaware that the pack's omega was watching, he pushed Jurano off the edge to his death. When his parents returned from the hunt, he tearfully claimed it had been an accident - that his brother had slipped and fallen while they were exploring. The omega, however, who had always been suspicious of Ralastor's dark nature, came forward and told the alpha pair the true story.


His parents argued over his fate for three days, until finally his father conceded to his mother's demands - that Ralastor be killed to avenge the loss of the eldest son, and to keep the rest of the litter safe. "He is a monster," his mother declared, "And I will not be responsible for what he could become as an adult." So his father took him on a journey to the place where his grandfather had died, killed defending the ancestral territory from invading wolves. He sat with Ralastor, endless tears rolling down his face, and told him the story of the wolf he'd been named after, of nobility and honour, of the joys of raising a family - and of the need to protect it.

"Your mother expects me to kill you here," he said at last, and was both relieved and ashamed to see fear in his son's face. "But I can't. You are my son, and I love you. You did a terrible thing, Ralastor. You can't stay with us anymore." He suddenly turned upon the young pup with his teeth, mauling and tearing his face, ripping his ear nearly to shreds. This done, he turned to leave. With his back to the second child he would lose in so short a time, he explained that Ralastor needed to remember forever that what he'd done was wrong - and that his ruined ear was a mark of that scar upon his honour. Of course, though Ralastor could not know this, his father also needed to come home smelling of the pup's blood in order to convince the alpha female that the job was done. "If we ever see you again, we will have to kill you," were his father's last words to him before he disappeared.

Abandoned far from familiar landmarks and banished from home, Ralastor set out with one thing in his mind - that one day he would return home with a pack behind him, and finish the job that the mysterious invaders had started with the murder of his grandfather.Wandering the wilds as a lone pup, it was only his sheer tenacity that kept Ralastor alive. Sometimes scrounging the kills of other predators, sometimes hunting small game like rodents and lizards, he managed to grow to adolescence in relative isolation, shying away from the company of other wolves and reacting with disdain whenever he did encounter them. All the while, he quietly broiled with ambition and dreams of conquest.

He knew he wanted a pack of well-trained, obedient warrior wolves. He also knew (reinforced by a few painful encounters) that strong wolves were not particularly interested in swearing obedience to a lone male adolescent. Eventually he concluded the best way to get the wolves he wanted would be to create his own: pups who would grow up loyal to him, who he could train from birth to be ruthless and fearless. As soon as he caught wind of a female in heat, he began to stalk her, waiting for the perfect moment. After days of following her, the female – an adolescent named Layla – struck out in a hunt and was wounded. Ralastor seized the opportunity and approached her, feigning concern. He stayed with her only long enough to earn enough of her trust to get what he wanted, and then left the pregnant Layla to fend for herself. While he waited for his progeny to enter the world, he wandered, picking fights and scoping out territory and allies. When at last he hunted down the mother of his first litter, he had gained his first follower and claimed a small area of forested land. Waiting until Layla was out of the den, Ralastor tricked the three pups he had sired into following him. Two sons, Brutus and Nox, and a daughter, Tasso, were the reward for his careful plotting. As soon as they were carefully hidden away, safe from any rescue attempts, he began training.

Name: Björn
Name Meaning: Bear (Swedish)
Gender: Male
Age: Adult
Pack: Travels with Vildsvin / Looking for a pack
Rank: Gamma

Alignment: Lawful Good
Strengths: Loyal, social, kind-hearted, intelligent
Weaknesses: Timid, clingy, insecure
Motives: Wants to settle down with a pack and stay put, craves routine and permanence.

Parents: NPC
Mate: None
Offspring: None
Wolves Met:
Vildsvin (Love)


History: The pack in which Björn and Vildsvin grew up was a large pack, consisting of four mated pairs of adults and three other adults. As a result, when the litters of all the pairs matured to adolescents, they were cast out of the territory to make their own ways in the world. Some would return to the pack, older and wiser and able to make themselves useful, while others got together to start their own packs. Björn and Vildsvin, who had been best friends as pups, decided to wander the world.

It soon became apparent that Björn was naturally the more submissive one. Vildsvin, although lacking any desire to be in charge, found herself playing the role of protector and decision maker. Together they survived without too many periods of hunger between successful kills or violent brushes with territorial land-owners, and in their blooming adulthood began to feel things towards one another more than just friendship. When Vildsvin experienced her very first season, she and Björn acted upon those feelings without truly discussing the romantic side of their passion. When they realized she was pregnant, an unspoken joy grew between them - only to become an equally potent darkness when in her youth and inexperience she lost the litter.

From then on she rejected Björn's advances when she was in heat, unwilling to express how deeply she feared the pain of losing another litter sired by her dearest friend and the wolf she loved above everything else in her life. Mistaking her refusal to mate, which had been the only way they'd expressed their affection, for a change of heart, Björn convinced himself that she had never felt for him the way he felt for her, and that he'd been deluding himself to think that Vildsvin, who was so much more determined and independent and brave than he was, could ever want him as a mate.

Tension increased as Björn began to express a desire to settle down and join a pack. They were getting older and with his teenage wanderlust used up, he was ready for stability. Vildsvin, on the other hand, had never really fit in with their birthpack and grew uncomfortable with Björn's incessant urging to join up with the next nice group of wolves they found. Although she didn't really want to rule over a pack, Vildsvin wasn't sure she wanted to be ruled over herself.

Eventually they came to the edges of a pack by the name of Einherjar, where they encountered a bouncy female wolf named Dakota. With the opportunity to press a friendly face for information about pack life, still looking for somewhere he hoped to convince Vildsvin to settle down with him, Björn joined the stranger for a tour of the pack's lands and struck up conversation. Eventually he fell in love with Dakota as a symbol of the peace and security he'd craved for so long, and as he and Vildsvin drifted further apart, he began to seriously consider joining the Einherjar and raising a family with Dakota, who was wildly different from Vildsvin in personality but still kind, friendly, settled and, most importantly, expressed interest in him. Just as he started to bury his hopes of being with his first true love, substituting her with the first female to come along and express any desire to be with him, Vildsvin came to him in a panic, revealing that she was pregnant.

Shocked and infuriated that not only had she found another male but also that this stranger's pups seemed to be carrying to term while his own had died in the womb, Björn forced himself to be a good friend and support the clearly panicking Vildsvin. He promised to help her raise the pups, and she told him that as soon as they were old enough, she would leave them with the father. After that, she began to visit Björn much more frequently, needing to talk to him when the stress got too much, and eventually she revealed that she had never loved the father of the pups at all, and had just been trying to make Björn jealous. Confessing her love for him, Björn found himself in an awkward position. He had already begun to build a life for himself and Dakota, had already begun to dream of their family. Could he abandon that to be with Vildsvin again, if it meant having to wander alone forever and watch her raise the children of another male and then abandon them heartlessly? Sure, he still loved her, but he had convinced himself that he loved Dakota, and he couldn't just leave.

Name: Jaguar
Name Meaning: Literally, jaguar (Inspired by the pattern of spots on his chest)
Gender: Male
Age: Pup
Pack: Currently with Mocha and Symetric
Rank: Dependant

Alignment: Chaotic Good
Strengths: Energetic, confident, charismatic, relaxed
Weaknesses: Impulsive, unreliable, restless
Motives: All Jaguar wants is fun! If he's not entertained, he'll just go wander off and find something more interesting to occupy him.

Parents: Mocha x Symetric
Mate: None
Offspring: None
Wolves Met:



History:

Name: Volpone
Name Meaning: From the play "Volpone", Italian for "sly fox".
Gender: Male
Age: Pup
Pack: Warugaruga
Rank: Dependant

Alignment: Lawful Evil
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Motives:

Parents: Ralastor x Ember
Mate: None
Offspring: None
Wolves Met:


History:

Name: Birch
Name Meaning: As in birch trees.
Gender: Female
Age: Adult
Pack: None yet
Rank: None

Alignment: True Neutral
Strengths: Charming, eloquent, persuasive
Weaknesses: Self-absorbed, unreliable, afraid of commitment
Motives: Birch is always searching for a good time, especially with males. She loves the rush of power she gets from luring in a one night stand, and lives for little else.

Parents: NPC
Mate: None
Offspring: None
Wolves Met:


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