History

Niko's Reign
Before there was the Aberrant Hounds there was the Bronze Walker Pack. Lead by their Alpha Niko. He started out a confident wide eyed leader with his new beta, known as Kier. He learned how to lead and started a home in the midst of the forest. More wolves joined him during this time and he begin to have a true family with his pack. But unbeknownst to him Kier, his beta, was plotting. Kier was unnatural,, a being corrupted by an unknown magic. Slowly over the time of Niko's reign he began to corrupt his mind and soul. It started with small easily excusable changes but worsened by the day. It was when Niko began lashing out at his pack members and showing paranoid behavior that others started to worry. But the corruption was already rooted deep in his being at this point. Around this time is also when Kier disappeared, just gone without a trace one morning.
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Many were hurt during Niko's reign of leadership. He was warped by the power within him to a wolf no one knew. He became erratic and paranoid. He started leaving the territory more and more. The. Bronze Walker Pack eventually was forced to be self sufficient. They worked in group efforts. Comforting those hurt, physically and mentally, while also taking a leaders job of keeping the pack functioning. Eventually a time came where NIko never returned. In his place came an unfamiliar wolf.

Finding of the Heir
It was during the reign of NIko that he found a young pup, eyes still closed. The pups mother lay nearby, her body was unnaturally twisted and mutilated. Wether it was the little humanity left in him or the corruption wanting a new vessel will always be unknown but Niko took the pup with him. Now he was no mother and his broken mind did not trust his pack at this point. So he decided to feed the pup on pure power that was within him. He did not even know that this was possible but acted on instinct and the calling in his mind. Somehow the pup lived and grew. But not without flaw. It grew unnatural features and with that came an unnatural hunger, for its own kind. Niko named the pup Ambrose, as it grew he started teaching it what he learned so long ago. The basics of becoming an alpha, hunting, scouting, running a pack. Subconsciously creating his own heir. Then one day when Ambrose was still young he killed Niko. The now former Alpha didn't even fight against his jaws.

The Returning of the Heir
Ambrose traveled for many moons after that before one day he returned to Niko's former pack. He told them of himself and vaguely of his mentor. They were taken back by him, he could see the mistrust and fear in their eyes. He took notice of the way their eyes watched him, hovering over the unnatural parts of his body. He explained, he knew that trust would have to be built, but he felt a duty to do this pack right, what his mentor couldn't. He was allowed to stay. Soon after this the pack uprooted and moved from their former lands up into the Taiga for a fresh start, everyone agreed it was best to leave the past behind them all.
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It was there they came across the foxes. There was no other way to describe them aside from truly magical. Their movements, the way they spoke, the presence they held. All was of something beyond this world. The pack came across these beings in front of a Giant Angel Oak. The foxes explained they protected this oak, grew it for centuries, their magic powered and cared for it, and now its returning the favor. Most of the pack members couldn't make sense of their words but believed them nonetheless. They went on to say the oak only showed itself to those it deemed worthy, and this pack had been chosen, so they may stay in this territory if they wished. So they did. But as they settled down and grew closer with their new Alpha members of the pack began to experience strange things. Weird features growing or an unnatural hunger they couldn't place. Ambrose was told this to his horror as he understood exactly what they felt.
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He sought guidance from the foxes. They said he would soon find out his fate, but the power within him would need to be fed sooner rather than later. They added that if Niko's corruption was so great to raise a pup on nothing but its essence then it was bound to affect those around him, but it was up to him to decide if that was harmful or not. He did not know what to think of those words.

The Change
However one day during a pack hunt everything changed. They tracked various scents for a few days, catching small game occasionally but nothing to stand out. It was when they came across the scent of another pack that things changed. Rather than curiosity or maybe even territorial nature, Ambrose felt hunger stir in him, as if he had only caught the scent of a deer herd. Without thought he tracked the scent with haste, his pack in a now fevered frenzy right with him. The fell upon the wolf pack without mercy.
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Since then things have only gotten more "strange". But with his wolves at his side he does not fear or doubt the future of the pack no matter what they become.