KALDAI, BRINGER OF FROST

Goddess of survival, frost, and cold. Caused her brother to still the seasons in the territories of both of their patron packs.

All she ever wanted was for her brother to be strong, like her.

Kaldai, sister of Arven, had decided her little brother was far too soft. The root of it, she had determined, was his patron pack. Apricus was a poor influence on the godling, and its leader was most at fault. Thus Kaldai begun her game.

Now it was never out of malice toward the wolves who inhabited her brother's homeland, or even toward her brother for that matter. In all honesty, she was doing what was best for him, she told herself. With every member of the pack she tore into with her ice-capped fangs, her purpose grew: she needed to get her brother to do *something, anything* about it. Yet, he simply watched as she cast an unnatural winter upon the lands he called home. His protests were weak and without substance as the wolves of his pack began to fall one by one.

It wasn't until the one he loved most hung limply from his sister's frost-touched jaws that he was moved to action. Then, Arven finally snapped, banishing his sister from his deserts in the only way he knew: by cursing the lands of Apricus to eternal summer. His desert may never again get cold, and the frigid north of his sister may never again see another warm season.

In Kaldai's mind, she's fulfilled her purpose.

She is the ruthless guardian of her patron pack. Only the strong survive, and the members of her patron are constantly vying for her approval, and the approval of her vessel, who wields the ability to grant her gift.

• to combat her patron pack being affected by the curse, they have as much an unnatural cold tolerance as Apricus' blessing from Arven against the heat


• Kaldai blesses the strong. Each wolf must prove themselves in her eyes to be blessed against the cold, and she values those who are ruthless in their quest to not only survive, but thrive.


• Her patron pack's version of the events that led to the curse is entirely different from that of Apricus'


• The frost-mother is relentless. Do not test her