Rune

Rune is Siberian Husky, and along with Luke and Burry, they are the leaders of the Shelter, although he is referenced as "Chief" by many dogs and thus he can be considered the "official" leader of it. He is a former soldier who defected after seeing what Shelter had to offer, and is now in charge of training future scavengers.

## Personality

Rune is a goofy, symphatic dog, that spend most of time joking and having quick hook-up with dogs around Shelter. Playful and salacious, he loves shelter and is determined to do his best to prepare the future scavenger, although he is realistic about their chance outside of Shelter. He loves telling dirty jokes and is very forward with pretty much everyone he meet, most of the other characters doubting he has a sense of shame.

In the past, he used to be far more serious, almost ruthless, and had a constantly stern look on his face. According to him, he barely even "thought" and emotions were muddled and faint. He had a firm belief in his kingdom.

Something consistant however is his courage, and he shows great bravery during fights.

## History

Rune was formerly a trained soldier that worked for the wolf kingdom. Its later revealed that he is revered as the reincarnation of a hero with supposedly the power to remember his past lives, and his caretaker was his dad because of a vice of procedure. He was supposed to have a geas imposed on him by the king(a magical promise made by magic), altough the king managed to trick everyone into believing he did so as he was disgusted by the idea of taking away his free-will. He then tried later of escaping service with his dad, but he was caught and his father was transformed into a monster and later returned to a harsher training. For a few years he obeyed the cruel orders of his commander and was considered a war hero for the triumphs he brought agains the ungulate oppression, and he apparently met Burry just before the latter traveled to the north(probably to Shelter). He was appointed general of the second high pack by the king shortly after that.

During a major blackout at Shelter, he and his troups assaulted the monsters invading Shelter and attempted to take over the place in the name of the Wolf kingdom, altought he failed against Luke and Burry reticence.

After some time, he joined Shelter to be truly free, altough his defection apparently costed him his right paw, and it is not too far stretched than its the same for his right eye.

## Magic and Skills

**Physical prowess:** Rune is among the physically strongest in Shelter, having underwent a sever training in his youth, and despite not being in his prime coupled with his missing hand and eye, he still display an incredible strength.

**Fighting skills:** Rune is probably the best fighter in all Shelter, having been trained to be the very best swordsman in his kingdom. His sword skills are described as “World-class” by Luke and so far has yet to found a match in Shelter.

**Magical prowess:** Rune is talented at using mana and was trained with the wolves. He is with his friends among the best magic user in all Shelter and has displayed advanced usage of magic.

* **Empathy:** As a canine, Rune can sense the presence and emotions from other canine, and technically from other race if given enough time. He apparently used this racial gift to interrogate people in the past by probing minds.
	+ **Pack mentality:** Rune can connect himself to other people that use canine mana if the trust between them is strong enough. However, he also knows how to perform pack mentality without those prerequisite by surrendering all control to the other, something he done with Luke in the past and at one occasion in his route. He does later perform it properly.

* **Ablaze:** At one occasion, Rune could generate mana crystal when he was fighting a monster.

* **Mana flow control:** Rune has enough mana control to transmit it through physical contact or simply discharge it in the air by howling or barking. He also was able to take mana from someone directly.

* **Foreign mana usage:** Rune knows how to absorb foreign mana to use other racial gifts. So far, only three have been demonstrated explicitly, but he can probably use more.
	+ **The seal:** During the drinking game at the bath, Rune has demonstrated his ability at using the seal without much trouble, and later in the night he could summon a staff for Luke to use.
	+ **Gravity nullifying:** When fighting monsters, Rune has shown the ability to nullify gravity through avian mana.
	+ **Human mana:** Rune has shown the ability to use human mana at least when casting embers, although its unknown if he could use mana vision.

* **Spellcasting:** Rune is a decent spellcaster, having mastered one unknown ember in his youth(it might have been Howling Echoes).
	+ **Howling Echoes:** a canine ember that employ human mana in its composition. It summons the spirit of Moon, a canine warrior that supposedly reincarnate through history with the memories and skills of his past lives. Rune cast it by using Luke as a host for the spirit, manifesting as a canine-shaped red aura with a ghostly but tangible red glowing sword and shield.

Rune uses magical gears, one being a sword that can create a beehive barrier through a slash and a second called “Sword Shield”, apparently powerful but with unclear property.

## Trivia

* He takes two baths per day.
* He is a switch.
* He prefer dongs with long shaft over big knots for some reason.
* He is the only known member of Shelter that uses a relic(not counting those aquired by others during the story), his sword being able to create a beehive barrier in front of him.
* Saurian mana being capable of healing wounds, Rune strangely hasn't regrew at least his eyes, altough it may hint a limit to this racial mana.
* Like Max, Alon and Burry, he already seen Luke naked and been naked with him. All of them also kissed him at some point.
* Apparently, he jerks off while fantasizing about Burry, Alon, Luke and Max. "Sometimes together, in different combinations...different situations". He share those thought with Thistle, the later writing a story out of it.