Cirian Hale

*The wolf with the yellow will kill a fellow..."*

-Volva to Cirian's parents

Cirian Alyson Hale was born to Aeden Hale Sr. and Saoirse Hale on December 25th, 1995 and is the main protagonist of the Hale Chronicles. She is one of the Queens of Lycaon, her being the first as she overthrew the tyrant king Murray. Cirian was born into an ancient pack dating back to Ancient Greece. Due to this, she is a powerful lycan as a result of being a direct descendant of Lycaon, the first werewolf to have existed in written lore. In *Omega*, she is a 17-year-old lycan who lives in the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska with her pack.

She is the girlfriend of Amaruq Waters, a fellow lycan and pack member. She is the younger sister of Dylen Hale and Lesley Hale and older sister to Aeden Hale Jr. Due to her family line, she was chosen by a prophecy to have her lycan eyes change from orange to yellow, representing her immense power and status among the lycan community.

## Biography

### Early Life

Cirian Alyson Hale was born on December 25th, 1995, to Aeden Hale Sr and Saoirse Hale, a young lycanthrope couple living in the outskirts of Fairbanks, Alaska at the Hale Manor. She is the third child of Aeden and Saoirse, and the pair’s second daughter. Due to her parents both being lycanthropes, they both passed down the gene of lycanthropy to Cirian, thus making Cirian a lycan.

A few months after Cirian was born, a volva had appeared at the Hale manor, asking to see Aeden Sr and Saoirse. The volva insisted on meeting them, as she had heard of a prophecy that was to affect one of their children. Her vision had shown her a wolf with bright blue eyes, and a wolf with golden eyes, two wolves from the lines of the Ancients who would bring death to the entire world in attempts to break the sires that tied the occult together. Though the volva did not see which of the children would inherit the yellow eyes, the volva assured that the yellow or blue eyes was amongst the generation of Aeden and Saoirse’s children, and it would only be a matter of time before one of the children would grow up to have the abnormal eye color.

Cirian grew up at the Hale Manor, like the rest of her siblings. Cirian was extremely close with both of her parents growing up. At the age of five, she would often accompany her father during hunting season to prepare for the upcoming winter. Being born in rural Alaska, she quickly learned survival skills that would be essential to her in the future.

During the winter months when she would come back from hunting with her father, Cirian would often frequent the training area where her mother Saoirse would reside to train pack members the art of combat and defense. Saoirse was an accomplished warrior throughout the lycan kingdom, and adored that her youngest daughter took interest in her passion.

Cirian’s first transformation came at the age of ten, when she first started puberty. To her parents’ surprise, her eyes were a fiery orange, just like theirs. Upon her first transformation, Saoirse gifted Cirian her first moonstone ring that Aeden had gifted Saoirse when they were younger. The ring had both the Hale pack symbol and well as the Belanger’s pack symbol, who were Aeden’s birth pack.

#### Cirian's Eyes

At the age of eleven, Cirian had gone on a hunting trip with Aeden Sr. Unknown to them, a pack member close to them, Jared, had overheard of the prophecy that was haunting the Hales. In fear, Jared went all the way across the world to meet up with the King of Lycaons, King Murray. This caused a huge problem in King Murray’s eyes, as this would mean his throne was to be challenged when these children were to grow up. King Murray proceeded to plan an attack on the Hales in order to gain control of the last ancient pack known to the kingdom and to slaughter all of the children in the pack.

Aeden Sr managed to hide Cirian from the attack, telling her to run back home to call for help while he stayed to fight off the incoming intruders. On her way back to the house, Jared, who the pack member that had exposed the Hales, found Cirian. He tried to deceive her in trying to get her to safety, but Cirian smelled deception in him. When his cover was blown, Jared began to try and strangle her. In the attempt to kill her, Cirian turned. This is the event that would trigger Cirian’s lycan eyes to shift from a fiery orange to golden amber color, as the prophecy had foretold.

Saoirse managed to save Cirian on her way to aid Aeden Sr, killing Jared for the betrayal. Upon realizing that Cirian’s eyes had gone from orange to yellow, Cirian didn’t want to be left alone, as she was scared of what just happened. Saoirse told Cirian that her new eyes didn’t make her any less beautiful, and to not let anyone tell her otherwise, even if she found out what her eyes meant. Cirian was told that her eyes meant that she was the bravest of them all, and she needed that bravery to head back to safety. Cirian complied and made it back to the house in time. This was the last time Cirian would see her mother alive.

Upon making it back to the house, the manor was put on lockdown where Cirian was placed. A fellow friend of the Hales put a spell on the manor, hiding the manor from everyone except the Hales, in order to protect Cirian and her siblings who were ordered to be slaughtered.

After Saoirse’s death, Cirian became detached and fell into a deep depression. Though Aeden Sr. tried to be there for Cirian after Saoirse’s funeral, he could not bring himself to be there for her, as he blamed Cirian for the death of his wife. Up until the beginning of *Omega*, Aeden threw Cirian into the hardest training regiment he came up with to punish Cirian for the death of Saoirse, in which Cirian notes as being “borderline torture” and “child abuse”. Aeden constantly made her stand guard outside of the manor for months at a time, depriving her of food due to him forcing her to stay out for days at a time, despite Cirian hating guard duty and having school to focus.

As a result of having yellow eyes, Cirian lost all of her friends she had in the pack thanks to her father’s orders. Cirian began to heavily resent her father for treating her like an outcast, and ordering the rest of the pack to treat her like one. Cirian knew it was not her fault that her mother had died, but she began believing it after months of Aeden gaslighting her into believing that she was at fault.

Cirian still kept a close relationship with her siblings Dylen, Lesley, and Aeden Jr. They all knew their father was being incredibly unreasonable to her due to a dumb prophecy. Behind their father’s back, they would sneak food to Cirian during the summer while all Cirian would do was be on guard duty when school was on summer break.

At the age of thirteen, Cirian began to rebel from her father, knowing that no matter how she acted, he would still treat her horribly. She would sneak out of guard duty to go hunting for food to survive and would get herself in trouble at school to avoid having to go home altogether. Though this heavily upset Aeden, Cirian knew he wouldn’t interfere when it came to the humans and their decisions.

Cirian once got in a gnarly fight with a couple of bears who were strangely not hibernating, causing her to be stuck in the medical wing for a few days. Cirian claims to have done this on purpose so that her father wouldn’t force her to stay out on guard duty during her sixteenth birthday. She also learned how to control the rate at which her wounds would heal at this time. Cirian spent those days celebrating with her three siblings who very much adored her and made her feel tied to the little part of the pack that remained the same after Saoirse's death.

A few days before her seventeenth birthday, Lesley and Dylen took Cirian out to town to get her much wanted piercings and tattoos with the help of fellow pack member Zak and Victor who replaced Cirian that day from standing watch. Cirian got the pack symbol tattooed on her left shoulder, and some other flash-style tattoos in honor of her mother and stuff that she liked.

### Omega

At the beginning of *Omega*, Cirian has been placed on guard duty for the weekend with fellow pack member Zak during a blood moon in early November. Once dusk had begun to set, Zak and Cirian decide to get back to Hale Manor before Aeden Sr would get upset at them for returning to the property late. The pair decide to race back to the manor. Cirian notes that Zak has had an interest in her since he arrived to the pack as a child, but she states that she clearly has no interest in him, and she would like to demonstrate her distaste in him by giving him a broken nose. Cirian beat Zak to the manor, and ends up not giving Zak a broken nose. Instead they both run to the crypts of the manor where the rest of the pack was.

Lesley Hale was awaiting her sister with boat chains inside of a cage. When Cirian learns that the anchor chains was an idea from her father, she became upset as Aeden Sr. still did not trust her and was treating her like a wild animal. Cirian reluctantly gives Lesley her moonstone ring, then succumbs to the moonlights powers. Cirian transforms into her lycan form, a full wolf. Upon realizing that the chains were weak, Cirian breaks free and escapes the manor. The bloodlust and urge to kill something made Cirian go hunting for moose.

While she was in the middle of hunting, Cirian gets distracted by snarls and screams. It is there when she stumbles upon a massive lycan, one of enormous size that is abnormal. Discovering that the giant lycan was attacking a girl, Cirian fights the lycan, getting injured in the process. When the lycan runs away, Cirian transformed back to human due to her extensive injuries. Once clothed, she carries the girl all the way to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.

At the hospital, Cirian realizes that she knows the girl who was attacked. She discovers that the girl in question was Amaruq Waters, an Inuit girl that happened to be in her English class. While snooping to get more of Amaruq’s identity, Cirian discovers that Amaruq had drawn the same massive lycan that she had been attacked by sometime before she was attacked. This made Cirian suspicious that Amaruq could be the other half of the prophecy as she was targeted by the massive creature. Immediately she calls for Lesley, hoping to the gods that she was right about Amaruq being the other half of the prophecy.

When Amaruq awoke from her slumber, Cirian began to question her about what she knew of lycans. Later, Amaruq peeled back her gauzes to reveal that her wounds had already healed, only scars being visible. This only gave Cirian more reason to believe that Amaruq was the other half of the prophecy, as it had only been a few hours since Cirian had brought Amaruq to Fairbanks Memorial.

By dawn, Amaruq began taking out the staples that were imbedded into her skin with the help of Cirian. When Amaruq became angry at the staples, Cirian noticed that Amaruq indeed was the other half of the prophecy as she had the pale blue eyes. Before Cirian could sneak Amaruq out of the hospital, they were interrupted by Amaruq’s family. To Cirian’s surprise, Amaruq was born into a family of Nyctimus’ Descendants, the hunters of the supernatural world. She is immediately attacked by Amaruq’s uncle Kody, who discovered Cirian’s birthmark that revealed to her that she was a Daughter of Lycaon, which she previously did not know. The family immediately blames Cirian for turning Amaruq into a lycan and for the death that awaits everyone now that both of them have been exposed. When Cirian caught Lesley’s scent arriving to the hospital, Cirian and Amaruq make a run for the entrance of the hospital. In the chase, Cirian gets shot with aconite-laced bullets.

Lesley managed to rescue Cirian and Amaruq in time. While driving back to the manor, Cirian is hit with a vision of the past, giving her clues to what she needed to uncover to stop the impending doom that was ahead. In the vision, she catches a glimpse of her mother.

While Lesley didn’t fully believe Cirian that she had found Amaruq out in the middle of nowhere, Lesley still decided to help her sister. When the girls reached the manor, Cirian’s anxiety was running wild, as she knew she had to face her father’s wrath.

The girls met up with Dylen and Aeden Jr who were awaiting for Cirian’s impending sentencing for breaking several rules during the full moon. Aeden Sr begins to shout at Cirian, and causes Cirian to cry at the mention of Saoirse’s sacrifice. In a fit of rage, Cirian follows Aeden Sr into his study where she confronts him about bringing up Saoirse. As soon as the argument began, Lesley defends Cirian, snapping at their father for mistreating Cirian for years. Aeden kept dismissing Cirian’s feelings, blaming her yet again for how the pack sees her, though in reality, the new generation of wolves all know that Aeden was at fault. At the end of the argument, Aeden tries to apologize to Cirian, seeing as she was incredibly upset. Cirian refuses to accept his apology, thinking he wasn’t sincere enough.

The next morning, Cirian wakes up to go to the medical wing, as her wounds were still not healing properly, despite her not controlling the healing. She thinks that this is due to her wound stretching across her entire abdomen, as large wounds like this take days to completely heal from.

## Appearance

Cirian is described to have long black hair that is always in a side part. She has grey eyes when human which pairs well with her extremely dark hair.

## Personality

Cirian is brash and hard-headed, which she gets from her father. She portrays herself as a tough person, but she has extreme emotional issues rooted with the death of her mother. She is seen as pessimistic throughout Omega due to her depression and despair in trying to save her family from the impending slaughter.