Kireg Ohitekah

**Kireg Ohitekah** is a character on *Wolf's Bane.* He débuts on the second episode/part of the first season/chapter and makes last appearance on the end of third season/chapter. He is an antagonist.

### Personality

Kireg was a cruel, aggressive, manipulative, abusive, cunning, ambitious, greedy, prideful and selfish wolf. As a result of how he was raised and treated, he grew grandiose and arrogant, and had a serious god complex. Any criticism he got, he treated them as a defiance of his rule.

### Appearance

Kireg had a red brown pelt with white markings and black on top of his neck and on the back. He had scars on his left ear, left side of the face and on the right back leg. His eyes were bright orange.

## History

### Birth & Childhood

Kireg was born to Sekhan, the previous leader of the Southern Pack, and his mate Alva. He was born as the only pup, making him automatically the next in line in becoming a leader. As a pup, he was mostly raised by his father, as he was taken away from his mother after turning 1 month old — in order to avoid the mothers influence on Kireg. Because of this, he became like the rest of his family from his father’s side. At the age of 5 months, Kireg was the one who found out about his late uncle's pups and ultimately was responsible for his death.

### Leadership

Kireg became the leader at the age of 3 after winning the traditional fight against his father. Kireg won the fight almost immediately. He overpowered his father easily, due to hard training and learning new fighting techniques. As a new leader, the first thing he did was order his father executed, making the pack even more submissive and fearful. In doing so, the act served as an example of how Kireg wasn’t like his father or the previous leaders. However, his actions were similar to none but one; Kireg looked up to his great-grandmother Azira, who had done the exact same when she ascended to power.

### The cousin's daughter

> Fine. As you wish. For your betrayal, I condemn you to death. Guards, kill her!
>
> — Kireg ordering her execution.

After years when his uncle was banished, he found out that one of his sons was still alive. When Kireg finally found his cousin, he ordered him to be captured and killed him by himself. Thinking, that now his late uncle's bloodline had finally been erased, only for him to later find out that his cousin had a pup of his own, a daughter. Kireg admitted that his cousin was smart to let his daughter have the mother’s family name instead, so he wouldn't be able to know about her. It took Kireg a while to recognize who the daughter was, and when he finally did, he made her to be betrothed to him, as she was useful to him and her being an Ohitekah meant that the pups would be pure. But the daughter proved to be quite reluctant, which made it harder for Kireg to keep her. The daughter always ran away during the night and this had become a routine for her. And whenever she returned, she seemed to be more confident than ever. Kireg became quite suspicious and kept a close eye on her.

This continued for months and one time, Kireg had noticed something different in her. Her stomach was slightly more round than before, and she had quite the appetite. Kireg had then realized that she was pregnant, but with not his pups, but instead with someone else's; an outsider's. Kireg ordered one of the raiders to go spy on her and confirm his suspicions. Three days later the raider returned and confirmed. Kireg became furious and gathered a few of his soldiers, ordering them to go capture her and kill the male and the pup. A day later, the soldiers finally captured her and brought her in front of the whole pack. Kireg tried to force her to tell her pups location but she always refused and instead taunted Kireg. Kireg became angry and questioned her if she really would rather die, to which she had immediately answered positively. Disappointed, Kireg then granted her wish and ordered the guards to kill her as an execution.

### Feud with the Eastern pack

The Southern pack has had a feud with the Eastern pack for six generations. The South used to attack the East quite frequently due to the red wolves growing tired of the arrangements between the packs — killing pack members and stealing resources, such as food. With Kireg in the lead, things were slightly better compared to what it had been before. But even if Kireg didn't attack, nor was he able to since at the time the pack had a scarcity of soldiers, he still tried to manipulate the packs leader, Zarek, to give him areas from the Eastern packs territory so he [Kireg] could expand his realm.

### Meeting Sabia and the pupshed

> I chose you out of everyone to carry my heirs. And what you do? Humiliate me, by birthing useless 'things' and dead sons — like it's a fat joke. I should kill you on the spot for such betrayal. But I am feeling merciful, so one more chance is given to you. And this time, you better give me the sons I deserve, who also are living.
>
> — Kireg to Sabia

Kireg met Sabia by accident when he was having a confrontation with Sabia’s father, Faol. Sabia had interrupted their conversations. At first, Kireg was furious with it but then almost immediately calmed down and apologized from Sabia. He then also apologized from Faol as well. Kireg then quickly switched his attention to Sabia. He went from aggressive to calm in a matter of seconds. Kireg acted in an extremely friendly way towards her. Everyone were quite confused and thought that perhaps Sabia had some sort of effect on Kireg that made him good. But little did everyone nor Sabia know that Kireg was only grooming her and manipulating everyone else around. Kireg saw Sabia as a perfect candidate to give birth to his pups. It didn’t take long until Kireg and Sabia announced their engagement and then eventually became mates. Only a week later Sabia announced that she was expecting pups. Everything progressed very fast. The pregnancy went well the first few weeks until Sabia had a miscarriage. Kireg was mad at Sabia and didn’t speak to her for days. After Sabia had recovered, Kireg spoke to her again. But he was not there to comfort her but instead to make her pregnant again. Sabia tried to reason with him but with little to no success. Kireg got furious and then forced himself upon her. No one didn’t intervene, due to the consequence being a some form of punishment, or even death.

Sabia became pregnant once again and it seemed to be stable. Weeks and months had passed and Sabia was ready to give birth. It was long and tough but Sabia survived. She had given birth to five pups, which four of them were females and only one was a male. Kireg was not so happy about it but accepted it in the end. Until something went wrong. The male pup had trouble breathing. The healers tried their best but the pup didn’t make it, and the only ones left alive were the female pups. This was something Kireg didn’t accept at all. He got angry and then butchered the rest of the litter. Sabia was in shock and tried to stop Kireg but was too weak and too late. Kireg left Sabia alone with the corpses. Her cries could be heard all the way at the borders of the eastern pack. Kireg felt nothing and acted like nothing had happened.

### The feud during Nimueh’s reign and descend into madness

> Yes... Yes! I will take and expand; conquest and subjection. But not only that, I shall stay as the leader for eternity! My destiny, the will of the leaders past — even they want the wind to turn. For I to live longer, the blood that runs among the young will solve it. That blood will halt my aging, and mortality. Let the ones, who scheme and slither, be the first to die for my eternal reign!
>
> — Kireg

He continued manipulating to get areas from the east even with Nimueh, Zarek’s son. But he always failed doing so, as Nimueh was capable of handling his manipulations - never falling for them. This made Kireg extremely angry. He planned to take areas, or even the whole territory, by force. This led him to plan an attack on the pack, which fostered his obsession with submitting the other packs to his will, becoming filled with madness. But his madness didn't only occur from not getting more territories, it also occurred from when Kireg didn't have any heirs of his own, there was no one taking his place and continuing his work. So he had planned to stay as the leader for eternity, believing it was the will of the past leaders and his destiny; thus also believing that if he drank enough blood of the young wolves, he would not age any longer nor die. So while attacking the East, he would take victims to be his sacrifices. He also killed young wolves from his own pack, mostly the ones who disagreed with him, but he also tended to choose his victims - no matter if they publicly opposed or not. Later on, he decided that he wouldn't only take victims from the East but from the other packs as well.

### Death

Kireg continued his attacking and taking sacrifices. But as more time passed the more he was growing restless and dissatisfied, demanding more victims. But one of his subjects tried to reason with him by telling him that a quarter of his soldiers had been defeated and there was no trace of the raiders; attacking the packs wouldn't have done much anymore. Kireg couldn’t stand it when someone protested instead of did his bidding. As Kireg was about to turn his subject into one of his sacrifices, Kireg was informed about two unknown wolves heading towards the area.

As the wolves arrived, they finally revealed their identities and Kireg was quite intrigued. The white female wolf immediately started to threaten him. Kireg, however, didn't believe her and mocked her. The female wolf mocked him back and Kireg started to lose his cool. He yelled at the female wolf and threatened her. When Kireg was about to yell more, the black wolf attacked him. As the black wolf was upon him, Kireg recognized him as one of Anuk's sons, Alek. He was quite surprised and kicked the black wolf off of him. Kireg tried to manipulate Alek on his side but wasn't able to do so. Kireg attacked him and threw him against a stonewall. Kireg was ready to kill him on the spot but Alek was able to dodge. Right when Kireg was about to attack again, Alek revealed something big considering him, his family and Kireg, which caused Kireg to become even more furious.

Kireg kept attacking over and over again but was never able to injure Alek with more than a scratch. Alek proved to be too fast for him. Eventually Alek stopped toying around and attacked Kireg, biting him from the neck and throwing him against the stonewall instead. Kireg gasped for air and tried to regain strength. Alek, showing no mercy to Kireg, attacked him again by clawing him. Kireg was too weak to defend himself or attack back, so all he was able to do was let Alek humiliate him in front of the pack. Alek then picked Kireg up and threw him against the stonewall once more. For his final move Alek grabbed Kireg by the neck and bit him as hard as he could, and twisted it so it had made a loud cracking sound. Kireg struggled to breathe and suffered from the fatal injuries. Kireg then died from a broken neck and internal bleeding.

### Legacy

Kireg's reign and the atrocities it spawned are universally considered, with the exception of his loyalists, to be one of the darkest and most horrific periods in the history of the island. The consensus among red wolves and non-red wolves alike is that he was an insane, obsessive, blood-thirsty maniac; he is thus almost universally lampooned in history as “the Mad Butcher”, and made part of the "Tyrant Dynasty".

Furthermore, his brutal reign and influence had direct and indirect consequences, which only became evident years after Kireg's death. The vengeful exile, Kaeran, became consumed with retaliation that, years after the end of the attacks, he planned an assault on the pack and returning it back to his version of glory. Kaeran was later approached by Kireg's second grandson, Falos - who admired his grandfather and his actions, and desired the same as Kaeran; two of them then formed an alliance and planned to retake the Southern Pack and kill the usurper family. The former protegé and grandson almost succeeded. However, their plan was foiled by the allied packs.

## Trivia

* Kireg was born with a defect that has been within his family for generations, which weakens the males capability to fertilize properly.
* Kireg has anger issues.
* Of the ranking system, Kireg was born as an alpha, the highest rank.
* Kireg's voice claim is Sykes from Oliver & Company.