Oruz

Tala and Astarael (Daughters, NPCs)

Ragnor and Durzin (Brothers)

Fia and Gaia (Sisters, NPCs)

Randolph, Kellem, Erling, and Niklaus (Brothers, NPCs)

Rodwen (Brother-in-Law)

Oruz was a regal albino male with salmon-pink eyes. Born to the pack of Altumvalley (which later joined with Highvalley) to parents Sheffield and Hira (NPC), he had many siblings, including Fia (NPC, High King Rodwen's future mate) and Ragnor. He chose to spend his life away from his royal heritage, and instead took on the life of a loner - with the right to spread his glorious bloodline throughout the world. He succeeded in this, producing many offspring around the Domain, including Lepotica, Tollek, Tsuii, Evander, Chartreuse, Rabbit, Bellatrix, and Mosrael, his youngest, born to Ranna. There were probably more, of course. He would take his daughter Mosrael and leave the Domain, never to be seen again. He was created and RP'd by Welihn.

## Personality

* ***Over-Confident, Proud  & Arrogant.*** Unlike most, Oruz is a proud and confident individual, with no real and big insecurities about himself. He has a horrible superiority complex, exaggeratedly believing himself to be better and more capable than other wolves; mentally and physically. Though, his superiority complex truly is *not* a mechanism to hide an inferiority view of himself, as he is very much blinded about his own flaws. - He sees almost all other wolves as useless to him, always comparing them to the flawless image he has created of himself. That leads to a very arrogant behavior from his part.
* ***Cold-Hearted and Insensitive.*** Oruz appears to lack the basic social skills that may include an emotional understanding of the things around him. He is very much incapable of feeling complex emotions such as love, sadness, hate, or guilt, and what is felt, is generally at rather low intensities, barely affecting his behavior. Therefore he is not really bothered by the emotions of others as he fails to understand them, but shows great curiosity in them, often leading him to test and explore how his actions may affect others and trying to read their physical reactions, in an attempt to comprehend such things, that to him are so strange and unknown.
* ***Selfish and Narcissistic.*** With his lack of sympathy, Oruz obviously lives for himself and his own benefit, only, any action he might take that could be interpreted as a demonstration of care or love, has another purpose in his mind that is not to actually help another, more likely to gain the reward for such. And as he believes himself superior and worth admiration he secretly (or maybe not so secretly) expects to receive such treatment.
* ***Charismatic**.* Naturally, Oruz is charismatic and can easily attract admirers and supporters if he's in the mood, his use of words and vocabulary as well as ability to mimic behaviors makes him a figure one might feel they can trust, he is easily able to engage the attention and the emotions of another, his clean appearance might also contribute slightly to the positive view others may have of him.
* ***Manipulative**.* Through all of his studies of "emotion" Oruz has learned to mimic the physical signals of the different types of emotion and how to correctly use them in a social encounter; should he wish to. He enjoys toying with others as a method of entertainment. As he fails to *feel* things, it makes the game easier for him as well as much more convincing to whoever may be seeing it. He is not aware of how he truly impacts others, or how what he is doing may be "bad" or "wrong" - feeling no real remorse in what he says or does, then neither does his body; the natural physical or speech hints one gives when they are aware of their actions, are not present as Oruz performs. Even the most cunning wolves might fall victim to his manipulative methods as well as the lies he comes up with along the way. Usually, but not always, Ruz manipulates others by gaining their affections and their trust, rather than through threats or violence.
* ***Flirtatious**.* His greatest hobby, and possibly the only one he has, is to flirt with just about any female he comes across. He finds it his easiest form of entertainment, as well as something to set his mind to, should he get too bored with life's repetitive cycle and routine, Oruz might target a she-wolf he might find more challenging to conquer. Basically a "goal oriented" behavior. He enjoys the attention he gets in the process, pleased to see himself being admired, wanted, and "loved" by others. But never has he loved anyone back. His goal is only to find something to fill in a void in his life, also spreading his over-glorified genes in the process. He doesn't like to have a "second round" with any of the females he had had relations with, abandoning them when he believes they are pregnant.
* ***Compulsive and Obsessive.*** Never have Oruz felt true happiness, he has only felt 'content' and for short amounts of time. He tends to pursue the little things that makes him feel positive or relaxed, but he has never experienced an emotion so simple and so pure as happiness before, which he desperately seeks for inconsequently. Oruz also tends to easily develop obsessions, his worst one being lying, which he does almost constantly, often times he is not conscious that he is lying. His sense of reality has merged with the world of lies and twisted stories he has created, and he lives in a constant state of confusion, as he's already accepting his lies as a reality, even if something inside his head knows it isn't.
* ***Pessimistic and Irresponsible.*** He has never enjoyed the thought of responsibility, and is quick to abandon any of his possible duties or responsibilities. He does not do well in packs, for formal duties and tasks repulse him. He is hard to irritate, but obligations, tasks, "duties" get the worst of him if one tries to shove it down his throat. Oruz also has the tendency to take on a pessimistic nature, he thinks the bad is more likely to happen than the good - when it comes to things beyond his control - and he will spend hours considering all of the worst possibilities and how he should react to them to turn the tables.

## Pre-Group History

Born the Prince of one of the largest and greatest packs in the Southern Coasts. His pack was a family, all tied by blood or by marriage. Oruz was born to the first litter of Queen Hira and King Sheffield, he came to the world along with five brothers, he was a snowflake in a sea of gold, and the pack instantly chose Oruz as a favorite, and he was nominated the heir before his eyes could open. The pack consisted of black, golden, and sand colored wolves. Never had they seen a white pelted wolf in their lineage, especially one like Oruz, whose traits are known as an absolute rarity, full of legends and stories about them. He was spoiled, to say the least. Either admired and loved, or envied and hated, especially by the younger generations. From the beginning, Oruz showed unusual behavior, bullying his litter-mates and the other pups, though, that was ignored by his royal parents and their loyal subordinates.

He enjoyed the spotlight and all the attention he was given, having others bow at his feet and do as he wished, but at the same time, he was distant from his family and relatives, not getting involved in any sort of drama or deeper subjects.

Responsibility was not presented to him, until he completed his first year of age, when his future was being discussed, he was destined to be a King, who'd reign and take on the weight and the duties of his parents and those before them. Unprepared for the responsibility, he eventually isolated himself completely, proving to have little attachment to those who cared for him from the beginning. At the day of his crowning ceremony, the day he'd take the title of King, he had vanished from the pack lands, without anything to hold him back. Although he had never developed a complex image of how his life should be, he knew it shouldn't be wasting his time, and that's what "pack" meant to him.

From that day on, Oruz had been traveling alone, with the company of a female wolf for short amounts of time before he fulfilled his goal and parted ways. Never growing attached to any wolf along his way. As the years passed, his encounters with females and his main source of entertainment was becoming more scarce, and his routine has been slowly draining him.

## Group History

After his arrival in the Domain, Oruz set about finding the next female to entertain him. During a storm, he crossed paths with Luna, who was unimpressed. The two sheltered from the storm in the same den. Later, he would investigate the goings-on in Vale, learning about how a wolf named Alar had taken control of the pack and it was seized by the Dark Ages. He passed this information on to Ranna when she came to him, trying to learn if he was a Valerian. This would be the first of many meetings between the two.

Another she-wolf he met was called Atropos, but she wanted nothing to do with him, and Oruz parted ways with her, calling her 'Grumpy Lady'. Oruz would also stumble upon a strange situation - Agatha stuck at the base of a tree! He teased her predicament.

Not all meetings were as playful and teasing, though. His mind confused from lack of sleep, he attacked Lilith at the borders of Vale, thinking she was Ranna. He'd meet Ranna again, after witnessing her rip her own shoulder open in order to get entry into Vale - *mercy.* When he saw her sometime after, and told her what he'd witnessed, she retorted that he was just as much a liar as she was, having told her he was from Vale when he wasn't.

Still, the two were fascinated by one another. Oruz couldn't understand why a wolf like Ranna would trade freedom and pride for obedience to a pack, and would continue to flirt with her at the borders each time they met. Ranna hated ravens, and Oruz, wanting to woo her, caught several and made a pile of them to surprise her with. She admitted that she enjoyed his company, and he told her he liked her in return. He felt...a sense of being understood by her, something he had so rarely found in his life.

They met a lot more frequently after this. Even though Oruz was manipulative and snaky, he was less so with Ranna. The two of them bonded over having opinions that most wolves didn't agree with, and providing one another an outlet for their opinions, without fearing reprimand, was something both enjoyed.

And of course, there was a physical attraction.

They didn't love one another, but they liked one another, and, more importantly, they made one another feel *something.* Some kind of chemistry, an attraction, an electricity that coursed through their veins. Eventually they would spend the night in one another's company, and Oruz, as always, would take his leave of her.

But Oruz began to grapple with illness after scavenging a deer carcass after a particularly difficult string of failed hunts. His hunts were less successful as time went on, and he began to lose weight. When he felt any energy, he would use it up walking, without destination or purpose. He was far too proud to admit to himself, much less to others, that he was ill.

As time progressed, he felt worse - dizzy and fatigued constantly. He found some relief when the air was colder, so he traveled to higher altitudes, seeking more relief...but the lower oxygen levels didn't help his situation. Within a few weeks of his last encounter with Ranna, he was dying of starvation, and desperately tried to find her, to get her to hunt for him.

Ranna wasn't terribly interested. She was bitter from her failures in Vale and wasn't particularly pleased to see Oruz again. He told her that he'd help her to hunt down and kill her father Alar if she hunted for him - and reminded her how nice it was to be understood by somebody. Begrudgingly, Ranna agreed to help Oruz out, in exchange for his help killing Alar.

The winter was hard on both of them. The two bickered frequently, when Oruz's snarky comments rubbed her the wrong way. Once, after a failed hunt, he remarked that she was looking a bit fat, and Ranna realized that she was gaining weight because she was pregnant. She cursed Oruz for it, wishing she'd let him die of starvation, but Oruz told he didn't care what she did with the pups as long as she left him alone - after all, she had been a willing participant in the production.

Oruz would keep an eye on her as she fell into a darkness, a somber mood so unlike her snarky playful self. He would catch her attempting to end her life by ingesting toxic plants, and quickly put an end to that - he needed her to remain alive to hunt for him, to keep him on this road to recovery. Ranna hated him for it. He took away the one thing she felt she still had control over: her life. Oruz dragged her to a temporary shelter, knowing that, in order for Ranna to keep caring for him, he needed to figure out how to fix *this* situation.

Oruz nearly lost her a couple of times - she had seizures and immense pain from the plant she'd ingested, and went into labor early, delivering two tiny pups. One of them was stillborn, but the other was alive, and Oruz was fascinated. He'd borne many pups, but he had never seen them...*newborn.* He was awestruck by the similarities between his daughter and himself, like the pink nose. For the first time he *felt* like a father.

Plus, Mosrael (what the pup was named) gave him another card to hold over Ranna's head - surely she wouldn't abandon the child, *her* child, *or* Oruz, and deprive the girl of a father?

He didn't mourn the stillborn pup - it wasn't in his nature. Still, Ranna named her Astarael, and the little broken family was formed. It was built larger when Ranna took in her newborn sister, Claire, when Hidde delivered her to Ranna. Oruz did *not* approve of Claire's presence in the den, but Ranna refused to let the innocent pup die.

They were together through the winter. Ranna couldn't leave her pup alone when she had to hunt, for both herself and Oruz, so Oruz spent a lot of time with his daughter as she grew up. They cared for one another, and Mosrael loved her father, who encouraged her bright explorer personality, very much. She hated that her parents fought so bitterly, however...especially when those fights were about *her.*

As spring arrived, Oruz reflected on why he had remained with Ranna and Mosrael. After all, he was back to his former strength, and could hunt and adventure again. Why stay with the female who brought so much frustration to his life, gave him so much grief? Mosrael was the answer: he adored her, she was his everything.

One morning, he decided that Mosrael would no longer be something he shared with Ranna. He wanted nothing to do with Ranna, anymore. Ranna would have Claire, her sister, and Oruz would take his perfect little offspring and continue his life with her at his side.

The two traveled the Domain together. She was his prized possession, and she adored her father in return. Oruz felt a sense of joy he had never experienced before, with her at his side. He didn't think about her mother at all, anymore. Wherever Ranna was, they weren't going to deal with her anymore.

To make sure of that, the Prince and his daughter left the Domain. They have not been seen since.

## Trivia

* Oruz shares many common traits with sociopaths and psychopaths, but doesn't directly fall in neither of those categories. It is yet unknown whether he is capable of love or real affectionate bonds.
* His main hobby is simple. Find female, flirt with female, mate female, and move on to the next. He has made his personal goal to have as many pups as possible and spread his glorious genes around the world.
* Oruz' past was nothing tragic, nothing bad had happened to make him the uncaring thing he is. That's a mental unbalance he was born with, and not directly his fault. Unlike most other wolves; who are able to feel, but don't show emotion to hide "weakness", Oruz is genuinely incapable of feeling them, or at least, most of them.
* He has many sons and daughters outside of the Domain and in, due to his recessive gene, though there may be exceptions to the rule, most of his offspring have light colored pelts.
* It is extremely uncommon for Oruz to actually fight or put himself in the middle of uninteresting conflict, though, he is capable of causing a lot of physical damage if he really needs to, but he'd rather not.
* He is picky, food must be fresh, and preferably still warm, or he may very well refuse it.
* He enjoys the coasts and beaches, the scent of the ocean and the gentle breeze it carries relaxes him.
* Although he may find it entertaining to see others disturbed by his presence, or see someone love him. He struggles to understand both of those emotions, seeing it in others is quite amusing in his eyes.
* Oruz is not necessarily "evil," a blood-thirsty machine seeking chaos and destruction. But his lack of empathy and care for others makes him take actions that only benefit himself and his interests. Hurting many wolves in the process.
* He's never really friendly to strangers when food is involved. That is one of the few moments he can actually become aggressive even to the prettiest of faces.
* Oruz is completely unpredictable, he seems to adapt his personality and approach to every wolf he comes upon. Very much as though he was impersonating a character to each individual. He can act friendly, hostile, rude, noble, honorable, depending on what reactions he's interested in exploring on another wolf.
* He always carries himself with elegance, head is almost always held high and his chest puffed out. He moves with a natural grace and elegance, owning up to his noble origins.
* Oruz has re-created his own past, a very exaggerated and dramatic one. That's the only story he will tell about his past, and after repeating it so much, he almost believes it to be true. His real past and origins seem to have been almost erased from his mind.
* He often struggles to fall asleep, and when he does he is a very light sleeper. He will usually toss the blame on anything that could have happened around him rather than accept that sleeping is actually a problem to him.

## Quotes

* "Oh, you know. The classic type of chaos. The one that is there to shatter a family or two, corrupt some innocent minds. Destroy a life." (telling Ranna about the chaos in Vale, *The Classic Type of Chaos*)
	+ "I know there's no repairing a broken soul." (to Ranna, aforementioned RP)

* "There's nothing in a pack's life but misery and mental corruption... I'd never be able to live my life restricted like pack wolves do. That would be to waste a life." (to Ranna, *A Wolf Like Me*)

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