Nadina

Ira (Sister)

Gabriel and Nikolai (Nephews)

Elisabet and Charlotte (Nieces)

## Application Sheet

inNadina was a gray-and-silver she-wolf with blue eyes, formerly the Gamma Hunt Master of Havir, prior to moving to Vale with her sister, Ira, in the aftermath of the destruction of Havir. She was mother to two of Janus's bastard children, Renae and Alastor, who she loved dearly. When her children were grown, she was retired and left the Domain. She was created and RP'd by FrostedCanid.

## Personality

* ***Cold to the touch, warm at the hug.*** Nadina can (contrary to her traits below) be quite cold with strangers and wolves she does not trust. She has a good sense of those that have secrets and is most quickly adaptive to those who spill all their secrets immediately after meeting her. She believes she has no way of telling what a wolf's secrets will be like. It may be small, such as they may be a thief or a white-liar, or it may be something hug e and unforgivable, such as being a murderer or planning a mutiny. Once one gets to to know her, however, Nadina is a true friend and will pledge her allegiance and strength to that wolf no matter what as long as they never break that trust. She is truly, underneath the slate-gray exterior, a bubbly warm wolf ready to play and wrestle and explore the world.
* ***Courageous*.** As her name's meaning states, Nadina is extremely courageous, even idiotically so. Shell throw herself into any kind of danger to save others and even sometimes just to prove to herself she can do it. She loves feeling powerful and will demonstrate her strength at a moment's glance. She can't stand to see others in pain ( even if someone is being 'attacked' by a crab or angry squirrel) and will barrel into the scene full-force. While others may appreciate it the first time, much of the time it can become a nuisance. Nadina's courage often, however, opens many doors for her. This courage makes her a good hunter, an even better guard, and an all-around good friend to have. Never fear when Nadina's around, even if you've gotten bitten by a fly.
* ***Caring and Intense.*** Nadina cares. A lot. Maybe sometimes too much. She takes her self-appointed job of caretaker VERY seriously. Not a bruise nor a scrape can escape her watchful gaze. Nadina loves pups and wishes she could have some of her own despite the fact that she usually terrifies most males ( if they haven't already mistaken her for an unusually slight smooth-voiced male already. She'll often terrify them just by being a little flirty when they still think she's male.) She believes the meaning of her own life, at least, is to be the most useful that she can, and even when sick or injured will attempt to hunt or protect the territory by herself, to the great chagrin of the healer.
* ***Stubborn*.** Nadina is extremely stubborn. Her set of morals are written in stone and it is very hard to convince her to do something she doesn't believe too be 100% ethical or helpful. One will usually have to sit her down and make a long-drawn out and detailed speech as to why what they're proposing is the right thing. Even then she may still be suspicious (Nadina is a terrible choice when it comes to mutinies or any other kind of deceitful activity) She's a rock when it comes to what she believes in and will not allow a single one of her morals to be violated whether it's her or someone else suffering the outcome.
* ***Unforgiving*.** Once her trust is gained, one must be VERY careful not to break it. Because Nadina feels she puts so much time into helping others, (even when unneeded) she becomes incredibly hurt when she feels her trust has been taken advantage of. She HATES secrets, even if they are kept from her for her own good (usually she believes they aren't for her own good) She will firstly do her best to make the offender regret what they've done by throwing a gargantuan fit and then will sulk for a very long time. In this way she truly overreacts and is very childish. Most wolves can't appreciate this part of her demeanor and it deters a lot of potential friends and especially romances.
* ***Emotional and Scattered*.** Nadina is both easily hurt and easily amused, often finding herself making bubbles or cracking ice in streams or trying to find out how many squirrels she can fit into her mouth. She has very exaggerated emotions when it comes to virtually anything. If she's disgusted, she'll gag, if she frightened (which doesn't happen often but will be explosive when it does) she'll scream and race off to try to climb the nearest tree, when she's mad... try not to look her in the eye. She's often either very sure of how she feels about something or has no idea how she feels.

## Pre-Group History

Nadina and Ira were born to the alphas of a small pack just outside Havir with similar beliefs and customs. The pack consisted of just their parents and grandparent's on their mother's side. Their grandmother was an especially religious and superstitious old bird, often wandering off to pray when someone uttered a curse word or did something she deemed unfit and insubordinate (after yelling at them hysterically first of course.) She also payed close attention to the weather and small events of nature. A twig broken near the den-site pointing east meant oblivion, a dead tulip meant winter would never end, clouds (roughly) in the shape of a fang or claw meant the gods were angry and they would all be punished. When Ira (then named differently) and Nadina were born, the wolf took one look at the albino pup and uttered a cry of dismay. The pup was a curse from the gods meant to punish the infidelity of the pack and to cause them bad luck. She tried to convince the alphas to dispose of the pup but they refused. Though they were also religious, they were not nearly as superstitious as the old female and believed that in time they would judge her as a curse or not, but never would they dispose of her. If the pup was disobedient of aggressive, they would merely take the punishment. Of course, Ira and Nadina both showed no signs of misbehavior outside the ordinary.

After awhile their grandmother pretended to have accepted the pup for her daughter's peace of mind though it pained her to commit the sin of lying. Eventually the alphas were convinced she'd learned to accept the pup and decided they could be left in her care while they hunted, when the pups were five weeks old The old she-wolf took the opportunity immediately. It was a blustery evening and the snow swirled and bit at the mountains. The grandmother led the pups out of the den, and a very long way into the woods, carrying Ira to keep her scent off the snow. Once sure she was isolated and well away from the pack's den, even a few meters into the next (Havir's) She dropped Ira into a ditch and picked up Nadina, running far away from the scene and leaving Ira in the snow to die, believing the pack would be rid of back luck though none had appeared yet. Ira's cries were soon engulfed by the storm and she took Nadina back to the den, covering her with her body to warm her enough to trick her parents into think they'd been there all along, closing her eyes in mock sleep. When the alphas returned to the den to find Ira she told them the pup had wandered off into the storm while the others had been sleeping, and that there was no hope to find her since she would blend into the snow from a few feet away. Devastated, the parents refused to birth pups again, and never mentioned Ira in conversation again.

Nadina soon forgot that she had ever had a sister. Her parents, though they still loved her, felt they would be betraying their other daughter's spirit by doting on their only child. Instead they did what they felt was the next best thing for her and trained her to become strong and resilient. To their dismay, she still retained a goofy demeanor. She often had to cover it up so as not to disappoint them. Her grandmother, though believing she had done the right thing, still felt bad about what she had done and did her best to retain a good standing with Nadina, who had no idea why her grandmother was doting on her when she had done nothing in particular to deserve it. This made her develop a strong love and respect for her grandmother. She adored the old wolf and, though put off a bit by her eccentricity, was ready to learn as much as she could from her. She grew up up being very content in the pack until just a little after she'd reached adulthood, when her grandmother let the beans spill. Her grandmother had been lecturing her father about the signs of bad luck that week and finished muttering under her breath as she walked away;

"Good thing I got rid of that little white ball of ill luck or else things would be a lot worse around here"

Nadina's father looked as if he'd been doused in icewater.

"It was you. It was YOU!" He leapt forward, pushing her to the ground and grinding a large paw into her throat.

Nadina's mother suddenly burst int tears and Nadina couldn't eavesdrop any longer and stepped into the clearing

"What are you all talking about? What little white ball of ill-" She suddenly remembered. The other fuzzy body beside her as she nursed, the warm mass she had crawled over and wrestled with, the squeaking form she had nibbled and cuddled with. She remembered herself trying to go back for her but being picked up in the jaws of her grandmother, her sister's cries being carried off by the frigid wind. Her sister.

Her grandmother had lied to her. She looked down into the old she-wolf's terrified eyes, her own welling up with hot tears.

"I-I trusted you. You-you pretended to love me, why was I any different from her? You're a psychopath, a monster! Our religion proclaims a love for all life, especially that of the other pack members. You are an INFIDEL! You left her to die just because she was different!" She screamed, swiping her claws across her grandmothers face, bloodying it.

"I'm sorry!" Her grandmother screeched, "I never should have done it, I shouldn't have! She hadn't shown any signs of bad luck quite yet, but it was still very early to tell! She was a filthy creature, with eyes red as blood! Surely such a creature would have brought destruction to us all! I wouldn't have done it if I had known this would happen, but I know also there was no good to come from her!"

Nadina wailed.

"I-I wanted to be like you, I wanted to protect my family by pleasing the gods and foretelling our fate, and preventing it, but you have shown me what superstition can do. It tears families apart!. You are not my grandmother! Your religious superstitions and idiotic signs of bad luck ripped her away! Where did you leave her?"

"Just beyond the Havirian border."

"I will find her then. I will find her, dead or alive, her spirit will help me wreak our revenge on you, wretch! Unworthy cur of yellow blood and mildewed heart!!!" Nadina ran off towards the mountains to seek out Ira. She hoped, prayed that someone had found her sister and had helped her. But more likely she had died. If she didn't find her by the third moon of her travels, the old wolf she had once adored would die. She soon, however, found that Havir was not far away by word of mouth and and traveled there first to begin her search for her sister or her ghost.

## Group History

She first began looking for her sister - who she didn't know a name of, or whether or not she was even alive - as a loner, where she encountered a she-wolf named Inanna. Inanna told her that a white pup had been taken to Havir, and gave her directions. Nadina pressed on eagerly.

When she arrived, Nadina was given the typical welcome for an outsider - a rather cold and brusque welcome, with every intent of turning them away. However, she pressed on, insisting that she was here looking for her sister. A she-wolf meeting the uncommon description *did* live in Havir, and she was begrudgingly allowed entry.

Saurugol was eager to welcome Nadina to Havir after she pledged her loyalty to the pack, and assured him of her lifelong faith in the same gods. Saurugol felt a kind of kinship with Nadina from the start, her being the sister of his adopted daughter and very much like her in so many ways. He was happy to share stories of Ira's growing-up with Nadina, who was delighted to get to know her sister through these stories - she thought she'd only *ever* know Ira through stories, as, when Nadina arrived in Havir, Ira was missing, presumed dead.

She was a firm protector of her packmates, and when she encountered wolves at the borders, Nadina warned them away. Not all of them were attacked physically, though. She met Cicero of Vektren, who was trying to sharpen his profiling skills. He introduced himself as Red, and Nadina agreed not to hurt him, so long as he kept outside of the borders - or else *she* would track him down and make him pay.

When three she-wolves of Havir went missing - Siobhan, Freya, and Taiyo - Nadina utilized her keen tracking skills to help Saurugol find the trail of the missing. They realized these three she-wolves were taken by loners. When Saurugol announced their findings to the rest of Havir, and asked for volunteers to come rescue their packmates, Nadina was among the chosen rescuers, along with five others: Faust, Quidel, Cyrus, Arthur, and Sage. They succeeded in their mission, Nadina proving her skills in battle.

Little did this patrol know, that elsewhere, Ira had been found. Alive.

Nadina would eventually muster up the courage to approach her sister, after she was well enough to leave the healers' dens. Unfortunately, Ira did not take the news well, growing suspicious and outraged at Nadina's 'lies'. Nadina withdrew from her sister, and from many of her packmates, taking her frustration and anger out in her hunts.

Internally, Nadina continued to spiral downwards, hating herself for being angry with Ira, and avoiding her packmates. One night, she was away from Havir's den, in the lowlands near the border, when a black wolf with eyes like lightning approached her, as a storm began rolling in from beyond.

Horrified, Nadina convinced herself that the wolf was Adetunji, the god of storms and death. She begged him to spare her pack of punishment, and the god, in his mercy, assured her that he wasn't here to punish, but to bestow a gift to Nadina. He used her as he pleased, and left, leaving Nadina reeling.

Little did Nadina realize that this was not Adetunji, but Janus of Vektren, lying in order to get what he wanted. Ira found Nadina in the aftermath, covered in Janus's scent, and denounced her sister for her actions. Nadina realized she'd been fooled, and begged Ira to help her figure out what to do. Ira, disgusted by their relation to one another, originally suggested that Nadina should be killed, but eventually determined that a sacrifice of large game might appease the gods, along with vigorous prayer. And hopefully, *hopefully*, the unholy union would not result in pups.

Tragically, all of Nadina's sacrifices and prayers were for naught. She became pregnant, and ran to the High Priest Silvanus for advice, to help her to lift the sin from her shoulders, or, at the very least, to not stain her pups or her pack. Silvanus assured her that *he* believed she had acted out of faith, but she'd been deceived. The gods would see, too, that she had not acted because of any sinful thoughts or immorality.

However, Silvanus warned Nadina that the real Adetunji would be outraged, and so would Saurugol. He suggested that she focus on praying to the other gods (Ademache and Adezevah) to appeal to Adetunji, and to not curse her pups for the sins of their father. After enough prayer, hopefully the gods would ease Saurugol's wrath. Silvanus also assured her that he would advocate for Nadina, too.

Eventually, the pups were born. There were two, both with pale pelts - much to Nadina's relief, they looked nothing like their father. She named the male Alastor, and the female, Renae. And no immediate punishment befell her. Nadina allowed herself to relax.

Too soon.

A few weeks after the birth of her children, she awoke to a horrible scene: fire. All of Havir was burning. Eventually, the Havirians pieced together that the territory was burning, destroyed by the gods, and Saurugol had died...along with Malika, one of the pack's betas. Nadina rushed to get her children to safety, meeting with Faust and the rest of the Havirian refugees.

Faust instructed Nadina to take her pups south, away from the smoke. She was approached by Arthur, too, who asked her if she'd take his younger siblings, Denahi and Morgana - Malika's juvenile children - with her. Nadina agreed, and shakily led the four youngsters to safety. All the while, in her mind, she blamed herself. *Havir was burning because of her.*

Still, after arriving with many of the Havirian refugees in Vale, Nadina was able to take some sense of relief. There was no superstition in Vale. The sin that had tainted her children in Havir was not present here. They could grow up safe, and loved.

And that they did. They managed to grow into strong, valuable members of Vale, and Nadina felt a sense of peace as they became young adults. After they had grown up, Nadina was retired as a character. She hasn't been seen in the Domain since.

## Trivia

* Nadina's retirement placed her in Vale as a background character. Thus, it is possible that Nadina left the Domain with the rest of Vale, when the new Astir, Loki, took the pack to new hunting grounds outside of the Domain.
* Her birth pack, Triellis, worshipped the same gods as Havir, and so Nadina felt right at home in the lands of Havir.

## Quotes

* "AdeSaurugol, I have been raised under the God's will since my birth. I have never felt a trace of doubt since I pledged myself to them as a pup, and my pack has always lived by them. As for turning back, I cannot. I have no place in my old pack and the thought of being a loner repulses me. If I cannot live for my Gods somewhere, I will not live at all." (pledging herself to Havir, *She Was Our Ghost*)
* "We don't know. sometimes we must trust the God's judgement without question. For now, we must continue to survive. We have allowed to live, so we must do the best with our situation that we can." (to Renae and Alastor, *Family Discord*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
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