The Legend Of The First Black And White Wolf

This **legend** is one of the oldest known and infamous on the island of Kú. It has been told in all four packs, but the Northern and Western pack has been avoiding it, due to the legend taking place among the grey and valley wolves.

## History

Over 300 years ago, the very first pure black wolf, Ka-Bar, was born in a small pack of valley wolves in the west. His parents, Na-Reh and Ru'ka were just ordinary sand brown colored wolves who didn’t expect something so odd to happen to them, as Ka-Bar's siblings were all normal colored as well, but he was the only one to be born as dark as ash. Some wolves thought him to be a blessing from the moon itself. Most thought him to be a curse. Even though his strange appearance was just a color mutation. But back then, due to the lack of knowledge about nature of biology, their religious beliefs instead taught them, and through them they developed their own judgment around such occurences.

Ka-Bar had a difficult childhood. Most wolves of the group shunned him. Even his parents started to resent him, seeing him as a curse, child of the Burning Devil. By the time Ka-Bar reached adulthood, the wolves in the pack started to become very hostile towards him. The wolves believed that if they acted tough and didn't show any signs of fear, the Sun would undo its scourge. But instead of everything going back to good, everything took a turn for worse. Ka-Bar started to become aggressive and very hostile, becoming what everyone had always thought him to be, a bane. Ka-Bar's drastic change was viewed as the Sun's punishment.

Over time Ka-Bar didn't only show hostility but later on would hurt other wolves physically. He tortured them, and in the end killed them in cold blood. Ka-Bar's atrocities continued for months before the wolves of the pack were able to fight back. When the battle against ka-Bar began, it was brutal. Ka-Bar showed no mercy or signs of repentance. Eventually, after a long fight, the wolves were able to defeat Ka-Bar —but rather taking his life, he was expelled. Ka-Bar ran to the *Suns Judgment*, where he eventually met his fate; dying of dehydration, starvation and intense heat. Centuries later, his bones are still at the very place where he last stood.

At the same time, high up in the mountains of the north, was born a pure white wolf called Lobo in a group of grey wolves. He was automatically thought to be a blessing, offspring of the moon. No one ever even had a thought of him being a curse, since something so beautiful and pure could never be. Lobo's parents, Kilai and Namaa worshiped him, and gave him absolutely everything. He eventually became their leader, ruler, a superior, guide and teacher. Lobo's siblings became his humble servants. The males mostly became guards/protectors and the females his caretakers.

Unfortunately over time, Lobo adapted to a very twisted and corrupt way of doing things. The worshiping started to go in his head and he started to believe himself to be divine, a god. As years passed by, Lobo had decided to continue his precious bloodline. But he didn't want to mate with just any female from the group since he wanted the bloodline to be pure, he instead chose one of his sisters to be the one who would carry his pups. First, everyone was shocked to hear about this idea because it was forbidden to mate with a family member. But Lobo was able to turn their heads around and his idea was then accepted. Lobo had chosen his eldest sister. Not long after this, his parents and brothers started to question his authority. And soon everyone else started to question him as well. Lobo got furious and threatened them by unleashing his divine wrath. Everyone then silenced themselves and continued doing Lobo's bidding.

Months passed by and Lobo's sister had given birth to one female pup who also was born with a pelt of pure white. Lobo had named her Ulu. The pup was otherwise completely normal but was born blind and with two tails, as a side-effect of the forbidden act. Lobo first didn't want to be in any contact with his new daughter because he thought of her blindness to be a weakness. But as time passed and Ulu grew older, Lobo came to notice that her blindness wasn't as bad as first thought, since her other senses were significantly more stronger. Lobo eventually accepted Ulu as his daughter. However, some time later, a few of Lobo's subjects were able to break from his influence, and started to rebel against. They were able to convert other wolves too in the end. A war had begun between Lobo and his former subjects. During the war, Lobo had shown his true self; a false god and an offspring of the Sun. The fighting caused a lot of bloodshed as Lobo showed no mercy and even enjoyed the killing. The war lasted for a month, but they eventually defeated Lobo and expelled him. Lobo wasn't able to run away from the mountains, instead he was forced to go further up. Since the weather and the temperature are more hostile, Lobo died of hypothermia. Because of the extreme cold, his body was mummified and preserved. Centuries later, his mummified body is still at the very place where he last stood. It is unknown what happened to his daughter, Ulu, after the war. It has been theorized that Ulu survived and went to live with another group, and eventually had pups of her own, causing her and Lobo's respective bloodline to be alive in the modern day —unbeknownst to others.

After both events, the wolves who were affected the most, swore to prevent said events from happening ever again, by making the tale of Ka-Bar and Lobo a subject to be passed on for generations to come; to serve as a warning and reason that black and white wolves are dangerous creatures, being the physical manifestation of the malevolent deity's, The Sun's, scourge upon them.