Briarheart

Briarheart is a large, muscular, sleek-furred, long-haired cream-colored male dog with a dark brown muzzle, dark brown ears and tipped fur, pointy ears, and brown eyes.

## Medicine Dog Position

### Succeeded by

Sorrelfoot

Briarheart was born during Whitestar's leadership to Rivershine and Thornfoot alongside his brother, Eaglepup. His parents are very different breeds, but a genetic mutation, most likely carried from their mother's side due to her oddly blue dappled coat, made it so their breed characteristics were passed down directly to each of their pups. Briarheart takes after his mother, and Eaglefrost takes after his father.

Briarheart trained as a warrior under Oceanwing long before he began his medicine dog training. As a warrior, he fell in love with Iceleap, and they had five pups together. Iceleap bled to death during the birth of their pups, and three of the pups were stillborn. The two surviving pups, Oatpup and Shimmerpup, were fostered to a nursing mother, and grew into fine members of the Pack. However, their lives were greatly troubled due to the absence of their mother and littermates, which their father was very honest about their whole lives. One night, when they were assigned to guard the camp, the two littermates committed suicide together by jumping into the river after days of rain and high tide.

Feeling like he had lost everything, Briarheart felt like he couldn't carry on as a warrior. He decided to turn his attention to a different path within the Pack: medicine dog apprenticeship. Willowheart, despite her old age, decided to take him in as an apprentice, seeing as she most likely wouldn't last long. For many moons, Briarheart had become an unwaveringly loyal medicine dog and member of the Pack to both Whitestar and Reedstar, and turned his position over to Sorrelfoot when he was ready to retire to the elder's den.

## Personality

Briarheart is very wise and kind. He always follows his personal logic and what he believes to be right all while sticking to the Pack Law. He was originally very sharp-tongued and quite bad-tempered due to his anxiety and depression of losing his mate and pups, but he began to embrace that part of his life later on, using it to educate others and help make them better dogs. Because of what happened to his two surviving pups, he strongly advocates against suicide, and takes any and all matters of mental anguish and illnesses very seriously.

## Kin

**Former mate:**

* Iceleap: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Sons:**

* Oatclaw: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member
* Glasspup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Daughters:**

* Shimmerheart: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member
* Lakepup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member
* Flamepup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Mother:**

* Rivershine: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Father:**

* Thornfoot: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Brother:**

* Eaglestar: Living

**Grandmother:**

* Otterheart: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Grandsons:**

* Breezepup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member
* Stormpup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member
* Lightningpup: Deceased, verified Aetherian Dimension member

**Nephews:**

* Oaksplash: Living
* Starcloud: Living

**Niece:**

* Daisypool: Living

## Trivia

* Briarheart is part Belgian Tervuren and part Dachshund. Because of his genetic condition, he only looks like his mother. The best way to describe his coat pattern would be cream-and-liver sable.
* Briarheart is an INTJ.