The Pack of Shadowed Paws

The Pack of Shadowed Paws, aka "POSP", was a well-known neutral-realm pack that lasted from 2015 to 2018. The group was led by RebelPerfection and is one of the longest-running packs to date, which was not originally intended by its leader. The pack was notable for its eventual focus on lore over other aspects such as training and battles.
==History==
The Pack of Shadowed Paws originally started out as a small scale group, being founded on August 12, 2015. Its original founding was very casual, and it wasn't even meant to be a permanent group. In POSP's disbandment message, Velocityy says: "I remember being in Jamaa Township along one of my friends when I came up with a spur of the moment idea. ‘Why don’t I make a pack?’ See, back then, I was pretty foreign to the roleplaying community. Frankly, I had no idea a community even existed. I thought that it stopped at brief roleplays in Aldan forest. The intent of the idea was pretty simple. We were bored, and we wanted something to occupy our time. So I deemed my friend as my beta, went to Aldan, and started recruiting for a temporary pack."
However, the group evidently did not end there. The pack grew in popularity in a time where groups that were not dark-realmed or formed by existing famous roleplayers were not doing well, and eventually, its current beta, Fang (Seal47723 ), made its first page on the Animal Jam Clans Wiki. From there, its success only grew. For a while, the pack had its camp in Sarepia Forest and used Arctic Wolf avatars. The group was more about roleplay and plot than fighting or popularity and was not concerned with numbers or status.
But in the long run, POSP definitely had some bumps in the road. In 2017 it disbanded for a week due to a mass leaving spree after some members felt they were being treated poorly, but eventually did bounce back. There has been a decent amount of similar conflict and controversy in The Pack of Shadowed Paws from its founding to its ultimate disbandment.
POSP's success was never consistent because of this. The number of members the group had at one time varied greatly, having sometimes no more than 40 members, and at other times nearly a hundred. Another thing that shifted was POSP's lore and goals. In the beginning, and in the end, POSP was more lore focused. However, there was a time in-between where popularity, status, and battles seemed more prevalent. Between the two gaps, the lore changed exponentially as well. Another notable change evident in this pattern was POSP's roleplay style. Originally starting as a traditional pack, the group shifted more towards vocabulary for a time and then eventually back to leaning towards traditional.
Eventually, POSP did disband on February 3, 2018, having had six different leader characters (all played by RebelPerfection) and a long run of 907 days since its founding. Whether it is remembered positively or negatively depends on who you ask, but the group's presence in the roleplay community is undeniable.
==Known Members==
(Only 102 known members of POSP are listed here, listing and finding every member would be improbable.)
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==Trivia==
*POSP originally used Arctic wolf avatars before switching to regular wolves some time in 2017.
*POSP had a recurring rival known as "The Pack of Ephemeral Spirits", which is actually the group formed by the original members who left in 2017 after feeling mistreated in POSP.
*POSP has had both blue and black tag colours over the course of their history.
*POSP ran for so long that it was officially divided into "eras" when its history was discussed.
*POSP had a "spy" rank for some time, before scrapping it later on. Later, a similar rank known as the "Inquisitor" was created and existed until POSP's disbandment; however, unlike spies, there was only one Inquisitor. The single Inquisitor's code name was "Mephistopheles".
*Although POSP used to also recruit on AJ, by 2017 recruitment was wiki-exclusive.
==Gallery==
Untitledgege.png|POSP using Arctic Wolves in Aldan, purple wolf is Dusk, POSP's first leader character.
Untitledddddsssssssssssssssssssssssss.png|Another POSP sparring session, Azure, the second POSP leader character, can be seen in the back.
Untitled2ddd.png|POSP sparring with another group when it still used vocab, the third leader character, Nyx, is also visible.
Azultryout.png|A picture taking during a POSP tryout, POSP's fourth leader character, Finn, is on the throne.
Jukei'sdeath2.png|The death of Jukei, POSP's fifth leader character
POSP.Aiding.TL.jpg|A POSP line arranged alongside members of The League.
Posp_Battle_line.jpg|A POSP line arranged in Nile for formation practice.
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