Morning Shadow

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First 400 statter bred- 407 starting stats

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Founder of the pup training and adolescent apprentice programs

She was the strongest of her siblings, despite being the youngest. She had a habit of being untruthful and reckless in most situations to say the least, and came across as arrogant to say the least. This led to her siblings finding her very annoying and had their doubts about her future leadership. She eventually learned to hold her tongue, opting to say not enough rather than too much or having to lie. She became a most adept secret holder, and an expert at finding other secret keepers and what stories they may hold.

Others wondered about her leadership, as it had been rather gradual and informal after the loss of her mother, sunrise To her cave of sorrow. But Shadow quickly stepped up to the task and enforced several rules to better the pack after she passed. Sunrise and River had done an excellent job of creating a pack from the ground up, but now that it was established, it was the time to forge it into something noteworthy among the other countless packs of the land.

She kept her mothers old rules of only loners joining, but she was much more critical about it now. Only wolves with appealing genetics could join, not some random lower blood rouges. They had to promise to forget everything about their old packs and nrever think about them again, giving everything from their old life up. Her pack traveled far and wide, over every part of the land. No place was left undiscovered from her packs paws. Wolves joked that they had become a pack of vagabonds, but she quite liked this idea, changing the packs name to reflect their lifestyle. They were the soul-seeking vagabonds. A pack made up of wolves who had been cast out from their former homes, now they roam the land, seeking to find themselves among their own little pack of misfits. They made several allies in several lands, never staying anywhere for any large length of time. this is how the pack lived for most of her reign.

She never took a mate, she never saw the appeal. She instead kept herself busy with other things. She implemented several programs, ones to better prepare the next generation of young ones. They worked out flawlessly, some of the newest generations coming out stronger than even their elders.

She always thought of herself as level headed and very smart, and knew that others viewed her as a powerful and potentially dangerous leader that they looked up to. Wolves alway wanted to please her and mimicked her. Whether she was blind to her effect on other wolves or just chose to ignore it, who knows. Wolves like Omen, Hope, Grim, and many others were shunned under her leadership. A comment here, a particularly nasty snap or nip here, and soon others followed her behavior, gossip spreading worse than a bout of fleas.

she did eventually take a mate and have pups, but only out of practicality. She chose Nimbus As he was one of the strongest wolves in the pack at the time, and she hoped to bring a new heir who was stronger than both of them. She eventually had a male pup, whom she named Cold front. He wasn't as healthy and strong as she had hoped, but nothing her training and apprenticing programs wouldn't fix. Right?

Shadow always had a lot of drive and strong ambition. She thought her pups would all have the same wanting as her, but cold front was rather lacking in motivation, and sometimes downright lazy. He often skipped out or snuck away during his training sessions. She knew when he snuck out, she always knew even the smallest going-ons in her pack. She never got involved, hoping soon he would show initiative, come to his senses, and start taking it seriously. She was sadly disappointed to say the least.

Soon she found her age creeping up on her. She was forced to relocate the pack once more, and she knew it would be her last. This new home would be where she spent the rest of her life. After her disappointing upbringing with coldfront, she chose the only practical option. Choose a different wolf to become her heir as the new pack leader. Even though she didnt like this idea, its what was best for the pack. She chose Aster, a bright young pup who was both strong and smart, her ideal choice. Her father was a wolf from a neighboring pack, which most wolves in her pack disagreed with. Nevertheless, shadow took her and prepared her for her new leadership of the pack.

Shadow never had any regrets in her life, always doing what she thought was best, sometimes easiest. But now looking back, she was unsure. She felt bad for not building a better relationship with her siblings, or not making substantial bonds with any packmates beyond leader and follower. She wondered if she might have abused her power and possibly harmed her relationships within the pack with her reckless tongue and wondered about how her careless social interactions might have affected the odd ones in the pack. Had she caused the one thing she swore to protect wolves from when they joined the pack? The thought made her shudder. but most of all, she regrets not trying to be a better mother for coldfront. Maybe that's why he always seemed so distant with her. All these regrets would go on unresolved as she finally closed her eyes for the last time, hoping she did the right thing and that everyone would be ok.