Shirubafurea

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Shirubafurea was a dark-gray she-wolf with white markings, which turned black after she lost most of her fur due to water hemlock poisoning. Shiru served Vektren as a Gamma Scythe until her death. She was created and RP'd by ShishiNoSeirei.

## Personality

* ***Silent, but Caring and Calm.*** Shiru is a silent wolf, which can be easily mistaken for being shy or someone who wants to be alone. She is a caring and calm wolf that doesn't blow up over simple small things, but if needed she will take drastic measures to protect the young ones or herself.
* ***Non-Confrontational.*** Fighting is her worst ability due to her lack of strength, so she is avoiding close confrontations whenever possible. Once she is out on a job, this silver female is keeping a neutral face to hide her connection with Vektren.

## Pre-Group History

Shiru was not born in a pack. Her parents were loners, and before she reached the juvenile stage she was taken into a pack by a dark male. The stranger claimed that her mother was killed on a hunt and that he promised to take care of the pup. Once taken into the pack, Shiru became the alpha's daughter, raised for the sole purpose to marry his son. The pack she was part of was strict and harsh. Females were expected to collect herbs, feed the pups in order of rank and more importantly, provide the pack with new blood. She had no mother, her behavior and training was corrected by the other female wolves that trained the younger females. Her skill of creating meals from simple berries and herbs was something she was taught by the oldest female in their pack; upon her passing Shiru lost the only wolf she had some kind of connection to you could describe as grandma/granddaughter. It was also the only skill she had been allowed to learn without having to sneak around and lie or hide what she was doing. She befriended mostly only wolves who where younger than her and needed guidance especially the shy and insecure ones.

The pack that took her in was located in mountains. They never left the boarders of their territory keeping themselves away from influences from other packs and keeping strangers away. Whenever they needed to recruit more wolves to keep their pack growing they took in abandoned and orphaned pups from outside their territory and let their pack members raise them with the values their pack was run by. If there were no abandoned pups the pack ended up tracking down loner wolves with young ones, killing off their parents and taking the pup in convincing them that their parent died during hunting.

Their pack was led by a single male Alpha; in their world, the Alpha was descendant of God carrying Gods blood. The alpha was the one who could take and give what he decided to be right and his mate had the same privilege as he did. The Alpha was allowed to have up to three mates and in case of one of them being unable to carry his heir, he had the right to chase her off their territory or make her into a slave as punishment for bringing shame upon his family.

All pack members had different roles. The males were responsible for keeping the territory safe and hunting for food, gather information and making sure their pack grew with right values; the law was decided by the Alpha and whenever broken, he was the one who decided what punishment was right for the traitor. The females were responsible for gathering herbs and berries.

Pups were put in special groups, each led by a wolf who had experience and proper training to train them to become respectable adults. Parents usually had no say in how the pups were trained but they had the right to decide what their pup was going to become. Up until young adulthood parents and in rare cases the Alpha had total control over the young ones making decisions for them about everything even with pups they were allowed to play with.

Female wolves were not allowed to be curious or gaining any skills that were not approved first by their mate or their leader. They had no other choice than to take in the male as their mate they were betrothed to. Duties handed out was something they had to follow to the end and for the most part was seen as an honor to even being given a duty; it was a sign they were valued greatly in the pack and their contribution mattered. She remembered from her years as pup how her guardians - and sometimes the Alpha himself when he had time over to talk to her personally - about how the Alpha and their pack was keeping Gods blood alive and by following the rules and His values, she and the other wolves were making sure the world was kept alive.

Despite being chosen by the Alpha the special treatment she got as young made her into a target ending up with her becoming a punching bag. Because female wolves were not allowed to fight she took the hits in silence, keeping quiet about who caused her all injury's to prevent more drama from raising ending up with her becoming good at keeping silence under pressure or abuse. When she reached young adulthood she began to learn how to lie to get back at her attackers ending up with getting two of them being exiled. Shiru managed to keep her skill secret thanks to her ability to be silent but feared the day someone would eventually find out about it.

When Shiru became responsible for teaching and raising pups - or keeping an eye on them while their parents were away - her teaching methods were passed down by a wolf who had just retired from the job. It was an older and very strict, at times cruel wolf who didn't see anything wrong with using poison to punish pups to teach them what was okay to do and not. Shiru followed her orders to the end no matter how much she hated the ways used to keep pups under control determinate to keep her promises and creating

Shiru was exiled from her pack when she went against the order of the Alpha. Since disobedience was not only dishonoring toward the Alpha but also the next one in line, Shiru was chased away from the grounds given the opportunity to come back ONLY if she was ready to apologize for her ignorance and fulfill a new duty as a sign she was once again ready to follow their Alpha without questioning his command, laws or motives.

She never went back.

While walking around alone outside of her packs territory she heard some loners mention the names of Senisteros and Xibalten, two gods that were worshipped by a pack whose name was never told to her for reasons unknown to her. Feeling lonely without a pack and completely out of place in this huge world she never had heard of or allowed to enter before she decided to gather some information about it ending up with creeping out a smaller wolf pack with being too forward with the questions and to get rid of her they gave her the little knowledge they had about the gods and how they where worshipped.

From that moment she started to pray to them, having no idea how to do it or with god she was supposed to follow she ended up respecting both of them, seeing them as a unity rather than two separate wolves.

## Group History

When Shiru arrived in Vektren, she set about figuring out what task was best for her to take. Admittedly, she was not a skilled hunter when she started out - but gradually, her skills improved to the point that she took on the task of Scythe. As winter approached, Shiru became less active, going out of her den only to do her duties and spending the rest of the day isolated from the rest of her packmates, and the cold.

One day, while out and about, she encountered a lone wolf at the borders. He introduced himself as Samwell, and Shiru, curious about the prospect of a new packmate, perhaps? Sam admitted that he didn't think Vektren was the place for him, as he wasn't terribly religious. Shiru told him that she'd be his escort to help him avoid trespassing in Vektren's lands, and he was very grateful towards her for that. Other wolves would trespass, too, but Shiru was in the company of other, less forgiving, Vektreni...

For instance, she was astonished to see her own *mother* caught in one of Vektren's pit traps. Before they were able to talk, however, Jerikoh - a packmate - killed her. Shiru was irritated that Jerikoh did that before she had a chance to speak with her mother, but nothing was to be done. Jerikoh had earned himself an enemy of sorts in Shiru.

Vektren went to war. Hekate had proclaimed a war on the pack of Aryn, and after a few Vektreni had successfully wormed their way into Aryn's heart, they kidnapped one of the youths: Merrill. The Arynians sent a posse after the traitors to get Merrill back, but Hekate had prepared with her own patrol, to distract them. Shirubafurea, Ender, and Ruebane joined Hekate's son, Hellion, in routing the rescue party, and they succeeded. Shiru fought against Raghaalr, who she initially assumed was a male, and successfully delivered a vicious bite to Raghaalr's right eye. Unfortunately, she too, was injured, on her shoulder, as she tried to battle Raghaalr *and* Tzuriel at the same time. Still, she'd held her own, and both parties retreated, with the Arynians unable to rescue Merrill.

Shiru wasn't as fast as her packmates as they ran on the retreat, and an outraged Arynian - Amara - caught up to Shiru and nearly drowned her, by bowling her over and holding her head below water. Shiru barely escaped, and it was all due to luck.

After this battle, she began to think that she was too weak as a result of her past. No more making excuses - she would completely erase her past, and be born again in the name of Xibalten. She worked hard, and ranked up to Gamma, and tried to become a better Vektreni herself. She was constantly frustrated that she never heard any word, and sign, from Xibalten, no matter how hard she prayed.

She was present as many of her packmates discussed their new prisoner, and her progress in being 'reeducated'. She didn't believe that Merrill had *actually* converted to the Cult of the Shunned Ones. Shiru was very pleased when Janus lightly reprimanded Jerikoh during this meeting, however.

Her services were called upon when an Arynian *willingly* came to the borders. This was Ragnarok, and he had heard whispers of Vektren's services for hire. He brought a ram as payment, and approached Nimh at the border to ask to be heard. Nimh agreed and brought him to Shirubafurea. Ragnarok wanted to make sure his uncle Zacharaiah was dead, and if he wasn't, proof that he had been killed. Knowing he was dead would ensure that one of his children - or Ragnarok himself - would be the only heirs to the throne of his home pack, Sombra. Shiru agreed, and successfully found and dispatched Zacharaiah: her first successful contract.

As the war with Aryn heated up, Shiru was more than happy to lend her services where needed by her packmates. She was often brought on expeditions to harass Arynian patrols. One day, she was with Vieste and Nimh, and they ambushed a young white Aryn female named Riga. They did severe damage to her, but her packmates Kane, Barin, and Ragnarok ran to her rescue. She was disappointed not to have a heart to bring back to the gods.

She worked with her packmates around the Nest, too. She and Hellion were two primary Scythes of the pack, and worked well together. Admittedly, she even had a little bit of a crush on her fellow Scythe. She also offered assistance in training new arrivals, like Fornax, and the newest broods of pups who had arrived in the pack: Hekate's second litter, Solitaire's first litter, and several..."payment" pups, who'd been left with Vektren in exchange for services.

One pup she encouraged to become a Scythe was Ghislaine, who she found torturing a frog. She told the young red she-wolf to kill the frog: Vektreni did not torture, but *honor* their quarries. Ghislaine would set her paws on the same path, and be trained by Shiru as she grew up.

Seeing all of the youngsters in the pack, Shiru began to wonder what it would be like to have a mate. She offered gifts to Hellion, but he didn't seem to get the message. She approached Vieste for help, keeping Hellion's name out of it, and Vieste, after suggesting that Miron would be a handsome piece of arm candy, later gave Shiru some more serious advice, and insisting that Shiru was attractive and a delightful prospect for any male.

Shiru didn't stay attractive much longer. Vektren's war on Aryn would be paused temporarily as plague riddled the land. Her looks would be lost for a time as she fell gravely ill with water hemlock poisoning. She lost almost all of the fur on her body, save a bit on her back, and she felt absolutely wretched. Shirubafurea, Seraph, Damon, Ghislaine, and Epione were the worst-affected of all the Vektreni. When the sun vanished for three days, she snapped, running from her packmates in paranoid frenzy. She passed out.

Upon waking up, she found herself surrounded by whitish-gray powder. She thought it snow at first, but it was, in fact, ash. When she returned to the pack, seeing it in ravages, she knew they had a lot of work to do to get better. Slowly, her fur began to grow back as the water hemlock and sulphur disappeared from the waters of Vektren. Only...the fur she'd lost was coming back black, instead of white. Oh, well. It could be worse.

The war with Aryn came to a dramatic end when Mistress Hekate was *killed* by Hellion, her own son. Shiru could hardly believe it! Hellion! Who she'd served with, and cared for, a *traitor!* The weather began to warm, and Nimh took over as the pack's mistress, but Shiru only felt worse and worse. She had constant headaches, even now that the tensions with Aryn were gone as the pack began to rebuild.

Shirubafurea lay down one day to take a nap, and hopefully rid herself of her blinding headache...and she never woke up. She died of a brain aneurysm, and joined the ranks of the Vektreni on the other side...honored among the dead.

## Trivia

* Hates winter and cold. While her thick furred tail can do its job and keep her warm she simply isn't fond of colder temperatures. During winter her performance may drop, her temper may become shorter and more snappy. Sometimes she can be found lying in a dry corner, avoiding to go outside.
* While she is good with raising pups, she can take her teaching to extremes and in worst case scenario poison the pup with food if they are not following the laws ruling the pack. While the poison never kills the pup, it may cause permanent damage if an antidote isn't used within the right time. This made her pretty feared among pups who loved to break rules and misbehave mostly ending up being broken in spirit or mind, and as adults, becoming a burden for the pack.
* She respects high-ranking females *much* more than males. Though she began to feel more comfortable with high-ranking males like Hellion as she worked with them, her experience with male authority was always tainted by her experiences in the past.

## Quotes

* “Are you secretly packing or are you just plain ugly? You bring shame to all female wolves around with that scarred muzzle of yours. If you stand still, I may be able to re-arrange your anatomy into more fitting look.” (to Raghaalr, *The Posse*)
* "You started it, you finish it. We don't let our prey suffer, little one. We don't hunt to torture but to get a meal to eat, and we never leave our pray half dead." (instructing Ghislaine, *Death and the Maiden*)
* "I think Miron is married to the Gods." (to Vieste, *Let's Talk*)

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