H O S K U L D

meaning: 'battle debt / battle bound' in old norse

5th Living Albino in Wolvden
Born Nov 30, 2020 @ 12:18:35
Out of Ikaiq/Hanta Line - Fraternal Twin to Nimbus

biography

born the eldest (and single) surviving son of a ritual marriage - mayth grew up as one of many wards of inle Hoskuld. he was especially favored because his mother Dufa, was bonded to Hoskuld and the two shared a den together. He, along with two adopted brothers, was the closest thing to royal children that Hlienes Vaskr would ever have at the lead of Hoskuld - who took no mate beyond Dufa. Despite her own alliance with a rival house when she was of marrying age (and a resulting daughter) Hoskuld named none of them her heirs - instead allowed them to grow within the house as they saw fit. Perhaps because of this, or the warm and nurturing influence of Dufa - none of their children grew with much ambition toward leadership.

Rowf and Mayth both took after Hoskuld in their wandering ways - and served either as the scouts of new dens and treasures for the pack, or as harbringers of the next generation, and raised the children of the house with the grand stories that their own mothers had told them.

Mayth is the most like his mother, Dufa - of the trio of brothers. Not coincidentally he is also the favorite of Hoskuld. He is not the eldest of the brothers - younger than Hawock by only a few months, and older than Rowf by another pawful. As the "golden" child of the trio and slightly separate from the rest of the children - mayth grew up close with Dufa, and Hoskuld both and had something of a nephew-uncle relationship with his father Dahloi. He developed a bit of a pup-hood rivalry with Eleer, Hoskuld's eldest daughter, and although she was often taught away from him - they were good friends. When he came of age later than Eleer - Hoskuld announced at the two would marry. He hadn't expected it - sure that his elder brother Hawock would be the bind between their two bloodlines.

The two settled somewhat uneasily into their new bond with one another - though balance was restored once they brought Nayilf into the fold.