Soulstorm

Unnamed Pup

## Application Sheet

Soulstorm was a near-black she-wolf with a yellow-furred underside. She was a member of the Stormhaven elite prior to Vargas's revolt; she ended up taking the alias Ignis and joining his new pack of ex-Stormhaven slaves: Damasca. She remained there for several seasons before she decided to leave the pack, ending up in Fellfang, where she served as a Witch-Doctor. She negotiated to have pups with Ian, and had three: Ezekiel and Solstice survived infancy, but she sacrificed the third, pure-black pup, to her gods. Her secret was revealed and she was exiled from Fellfang, and she wandered as a loner, her belief in her gods destroyed. In the midst of the Hive Wars, she chose to leave, unwilling to lose her life to protect her place in the Domain, and hasn't returned since. She was created and RP'd by OneMinuteSketch.

## Personality

* ***Survivalist***. While Soulstorm is missing the comfortable life of a Stormhaven's princess, she adjusted to the Damascan nomadic, simple life. Not without silent complaining, though...
* ***Practical***. While Soulstorm could say "the end justifies the means", she is enough smart and patient to not to overdose. She can wait for her chance - even for months. Damasca is not exactly the pack she was dreaming about, but it is better than nothing, so she stays here.
* ***Determined***. The ex-princess will endure (and do) anything to accomplish her goals. Even the most immoral methods are fine, when you want to achieve greatness. She strives for perfection.
* ***Ambitious***. The she-wolf has one ultimate goal. She want to achieve respect, receive honors and titles. She dreams about proving herself that she is better than her parents who were alphas. That not only her ancestry, but also skills determine her value.
* ***Demanding***. Soulstorm demands a lot not only from herself but also from others. She is a nightmare supervisor.
* ***Cunning***. Being a thrall made her able to lie, manipulate, blackmail, observe and escape any oppression.
* ***Atheist***. The near-death experience has changed Soulstorm's view about religion. Currently she perceives it as a dangerous phenomenon being indicative of obscurantism.
* ***Sadistic***. She does not find pleasure in making other creatures suffer, however it is the lack of compassion and sensitivity that make Soulstorm sadistic. The she-wolf does not hesitate to hurt someone if it is going to benefit.
* ***Cold***. Family, friends, mate... All of these are only obstacles in the endless pursuit of success. Soulstorm does not speak much and if she does, it is not pleasant to hear her emotionless, judging comments. She does not care about one's feelings. The inner coldness reveals itself  during pack meetings and social occasions too - Soulstorm rarely attends these.

## Pre-Group History

Soulstorm was born to a pair of alphas in the distant pack called Stormhaven. The clan was situated beside a restless, roaring sea and its social structure was divided into two classes - elite and slaves. The thralls vegetated in the lower parts of the shore, in the land of starvation and lawlessness. Some, who had more luck, were servants of the aristocracy and allowed to enter the upper parts of the settlement from time to time.

There was no need for Soulstorm to ever visit the area inhabited by the slaves. She was a pureblood, spoiled, perfect child. But she was above it. Ambitious, the female wanted to prove not only her ancestry should be a source of respect. She chose the hard way, entered the slave caste. She served, grew clever, cunning and more inventive than her elite peers. Living among thralls was a valuable lesson of manipulation, theft, lying and survival.

Soulstorm came back to the aristocratic circle equipped with a wide, brand new and useful range of skills. To become at least as reputable as her parents – it was her new goal. Her career started taking off only to be violently terminated by an uprising of the slaves.

Her kin was butchered. She witnessed the death of her mother, murdered by Vargas, the initiator of the rebellion. However Soulstorm survived because the thralls did not recognize her as one of the aristocrats, but mistaken her as one of the slaves. Some remembered her from the Lower Court.

Soulstorm cared little for her family relationships. She did not crave a vengeance but personal success. Using the pseudonym Ignis she joined Vargas’s horde and adapted to harsh life in Damascan badlands.

Will she ever think about the revenge? Or admit her true ancestry?

## Group History

After Damasca was established, Soulstorm (as Ignis) worked to keep her identity a secret. One evening, while sitting with Vargas and Samsara, Vargas asked the two she-wolves what they had lost in Stormhaven. Soulstorm was a bit taken aback, but didn't *lie*, telling Vargas her mother was killed by a monster. Vargas didn't know *he* was the monster responsible.

Soulstorm fell into the Damascan way of life, joining several of her packmates in a raid. She met new packmates - Dariush, Sieg, and Nysien, for instance. She wasn't particularly impressed by any of them. She spent a great deal of time away from the pack, searching for a place to practice her religion, eventually finding a pathetic little pool to serve as a substitute for the sea, which she missed greatly. She made sacrifices at the pool, hoping it would suffice.

When summer reached the Domain, two new wolves arrived in Damasca - Orion and Barbosa. Orion asked Soulstorm to teach him about Damascan religion, and she was careful about the way she described it, not revealing her ultimate goal to sacrifice a black wolf and a white wolf. She also discussed her religion with Dare. He asked her to talk about them at the Midsummer Fire Festival, when Orion told the story of the Curse of Pajackok, but she was unwilling, insisting that her stories were too important for the ears of the ignorants and drunks. She left, despising the drunken revelry.

Soulstorm's luck seemed to turn positively when she heard from Wick about a white wolf named Rocko who he'd crossed paths with once before. It was promising...she kept the information in mind.

Soulstorm set her attention to experimenting with poisons. She began to experiment with her mixtures, trying to create something which would slowly incapacitate her victims, not kill them immediately. Her early tests involved testing on scavenger-birds like ravens, but a youngster named Novak, after stumbling upon some meat scraps, ended up getting poisoned by Soulstorm. She helped him afterwards, keeping her involvement secret.

Shortly thereafter, she decided to leave, without saying a word to any of her packmates. As a loner, she crossed paths with a wolf named Silas. She asked him if he knew about the location of a white wolf. She'd found heard of a she-wolf called "the Wraith" (Helh) but lost the trail, and hoped Silas might have information. He informed her that he knew a wolf named Rocko in Heyl. However, he was curious about the 'religious matters' Soulstorm mentioned, and she told him of the Dawnwaker and Duskweaver.

Silas's blood boiled when he realized she was a heathen, after getting his hopes up that he had found another practicer of the Havirian religion. He was outraged, and Soulstorm left as he tried to keep his emotions under control...but Silas knew he would kill her the next time he saw her, for being a heathen.

Soulstorm reached Heyl, only to discover that the pack had dissolved after an attempted coup by the alpha's eldest son, Eir. She asked a former Heylian still living in the territory - Leo - about whether he knew what happened to Rocko, and Leo told her that Rocko had left to go to Fellfang. She set off again.

In the north, Soulstorm was finally able to make a proper sacrifice to the sea again. While at the coast near Fellfang, she saved Valera from drowning. Valera was grateful, and Soulstorm accompanied her to the pack, where she was offered a place, and began training as a Witch-Doctor. A friendly fellow Witch-Doctor, Cacao, showed her around Fellfang's home.

Still, even though she was a well-trained healer, Soulstorm was lacking in her bedside manner. Tadita approached to ask Soulstorm for some professional help for her nausea and sick-feeling, after her mate Nach and son Hajlmar left the Domain. Cacao and Myghchaell had already told Tadita her sickness was due to a broken heart, but exasperated, Soulstorm told her it was from overworking herself and stress, and gave her some herbs and advised meditation.

Once again, Soulstorm found herself a witness to *another* foolish celebration: Ondmuna. A packmate, Ian, was in a bad mood and when he felt himself being watched, far away from the celebration, he lashed out without thinking. He attacked her and injured her, and Soulstorm agreed to keep secret his attack, but...she thought perhaps she would get something out of it. They made a deal which left Soulstorm pregnant with what she believed would represent the rebirth of the cult of the Dawnwaker and Duskweaver. She never told anybody who the father was, never involved Ian beyond that first night.

In the midst of a snowstorm, Soulstorm left Starheim. While out in the cold, she gave birth to her pups - three of them, all healthy. She named two of them, Ezekiel and Solstice, but refused to name the last, a pure black pup. This pup she sacrificed to her gods in the ocean once she was strong enough to leave the den and do so. She seemed to feel no remorse for this action.

When the weather permitted, she took her two remaining pups on walks to learn about the world, and eventually she brought them to Fellfang. Kaiba offered to babysit the pups, but they chose to run away. Soulstorm found them and firmly reprimanded Kaiba, calling him incompetent.

Her pups were growing older, already juveniles, so she could allow herself to leave them alone and go about her own duties. While out near the borders, she crossed paths with a wolf she'd met before: Silas. Silas was prepared to kill the *heathen* Soulstorm in the name of his Ades, and nearly succeeded. He would have killed her, while his traveling partner Zinnia watched in horror, if Khalua and Valera hadn't been there to protect Soulstorm. After fending off Silas, they brought Soulstorm back to Fellfang.

While she recovered in Fellfang, Soulstorm was visited by some of her packmates, including Dublin, who brought a lovely bunch of flowers to brighten the darkness of the den. Her wounds were recovering well when Doba stepped into the den...and Soulstorm made a confession that changed everything.

**"I killed my child."** She had said it matter-of-factly, without remorse, and without prompting. Doba tried to understand, thinking that the she-wolf was delirious and thought she'd lost Ezekiel or Solstice. Soulstorm confirmed what she said, and informed her of the reason why: as a sacrifice to the gods. Doba immediately fled to inform Jarl Lincoln, as Soulstorm had expected.

She was brought to trial, in front of Lincoln, and sentenced to exile. She embraced it and left without any denials of what she had done, intending to let her religion die. After all, she had given *everything* to them, and they had left her to die at the jaws of a *heathen*, Silas?!

She set about living her life as a loner, doing what she could to feed herself and avoid drawing the attention of the strange, aggressive white wolves who were roaming the land...

Eventually, however, Soulstorm decided it wasn't worth risking her life to remain in the Domain with these white wolves - the Hive - everywhere, and she chose to leave. She has never been seen again.

## Trivia

* Her ultimate goal was to sacrifice one white wolf and one black wolf to her gods. However, she only ever succeeded in sacrificing a black wolf - her own child.
* She does not tolerate calling her a shaman. It is safe to call her a healer.
* She is missing the proximity of sea and luxurious life at Stormhaven.

## Quotes

* “I cannot comprehend how incompetent you are. Attending to someone else is the last task you should undertake." (to Kaiba, *Hide and Seek*)
* “Dawnwaker had a crown of sunlight, therefore he became the Sun Bearer. And Duskweaver was bedecked by moonlight, he was the Moon Keeper. Together the brothers, equipped with this light, dived into the dark ocean and lifted the seafloor to create the land as we know it. The ground permanently divided the sky and the water and the storm ceased. Finally.” (the story of her religion, as told to Dare, *Distance*)

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