Rosetta

Screenshot taken from the 2nd episode of the Wolves of Thorns

## Genealogy

Rosetta was the heiress to the Dark Moon Pack generation 4. She was the daughter of Basil and Catalina. Her siblings were Argon, Badger, and Mouse. She was the mate of Troyus and the mother of Journey, Delphinium, Bee, Rosebud, Rosethorn, and Beaver. She was also the granddaughter of Parsley and Azor and the great granddaughter of Meadow and Genesis. She was the grand niece of Achilliies and Persephone

## Biography

Rosetta was born to Basil and Catalina, at the Deermoss Den. She had a pretty challenging puphood, with her sister Mouse’s sudden death and her father Basil’s overwhelming grief. But Rosetta was always the more cheerful pup, who still kept her spirits up. She had absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever, and that stayed with her as she grew up, but somehow she ended up at Amethyst Mountain after she had dispersed. She had a pretty easy time there, killing her two elk fast in the same episode and already having potential mates around. Seri nicknamed her “Golden girl” because her life seemed so easy. She fell in love with Troyus, the most playful and kind of the wolves and also a 4 star mate. They spent some extra time at Amethyst Mountain and tried to hunt beavers, since Troyus loved them. They went to Slough Creek, but there their problems began. Rosetta’s bad sense of direction made it difficult to establish a strong territory, and the winter was unusually long their year so it took them a long time before they had their pups. Eventually they had a strong territory and settled down at the lake, where Rosetta gave birth to their 6 pups: Beaver (2M), Rosethorn (2F), Journey (3M), Rosebud (3F), Delphinium (4F), and Bee (5F).

Rosetta spent the most time with her family and almost none on her territory, leading to weaker borders and many intruders, but strong bonds between Rosetta, the pups, and Troyus. They had a young cougar at the lake who never learned his lesson and continued to attack their den, but was chased away every time. She had it easy hunting, and even if Rosethorn was sick for a while she recovered without her illness getting too serious. The beaver hunting wasn’t the easiest, because Troyus was too impatient and goofed around instead of helping, scaring the beavers. At the end Rosetta’s life went from gold to gray, when she with low health tried to hunt an elk calf for her hungry family and took many bad kicks that eventually became fatal, and Rosetta died from her wounds. Troyus was heartbroken and left alone with the pups and raised 4 out of 6 of them to adulthood, losing Rosebud and Rosethorn. Their daughter Bee was chosen as heiress to the next generation of the Dark Moon Pack.

## Personality

Rosetta was one of the most adventurous wolves. She always wandered away from the den and rendezvous site as pup, but she always managed to survive. She had absolutely no sense of direction, and went wherever her nose was pointing. Her lifetime quest was for Seri to never look at the map even once, and she succeeded. She was positive and playful, and loved how playful Troyus was. She believed family was more worth than territory, and never spent much time on patrols, also partly because of her incredibly poor sense of direction and extremely curious nature which often led her to become lost. She was an incredibly strong huntress, who could take down a full health cow elk by herself and still be fairly healthy. She didn’t let anything mess with her family, and even caused a Junction Butte female to drown in the lake after she tried to attack them. She could be serious sometimes, like when hunting beavers, and got tired of Troyus’ extreme playfulness that usually messed up the hunt. Even though she was strong and positive, she could sometimes overestimate her strength and pick fights she wasn’t strong enough to win. That mistake costed her life, when she tried too hard to hunt an elk calf and took a lethal blow from the mother.

## Appearance

Rosetta looked almost identical to her father Basil, and similar to her grandfather Azor, having warm light brown fur with some gray in it, a darker tail, white cheeks, paws and belly, and a chocolate brown nose stripe. Her eyes were a striking shade of amber, very similar to her father’s eyes, only more fiery.

## Death

In early July, after two failed beaver hunts, she tried to hunt an elk calf for her hungry pups. The mother elk who was protecting the calf kicked Rosetta aggressively, desperate to defend her family member. Unfortunately, Rosetta was killed by the mother elk’s kicks. Her death left Troyus absolutely heartbroken, as he returned to the rendezvous site to tell the grave news to his pups. Tragically, some of their pups died while Troyus was raising them, making his grief and pain worse. Only some of their pups survived into adulthood, that being Beaver, Journey, Delphinium and Bee. Rosebud and Rosethorn passed away of unknown causes, which was the unfortunate end of the rose line.

## Trivia

* Rosetta was pretty much the opposite of Lark, with her life being mostly bright and easy.

* She was often mistaken as a part of the Dawn Moon Pack, because of her bright personality and that she chose family above territory and strength, not showing any of her pack’s familiar darkness.

* She was the second wolf to die onscreen (not including stranger wolves) in Seri Pixel Biologist’s Wolf Quest Legacy. The first onscreen death was Lark. (Twilight doesn’t count because she is technically alive according to the game and she simply glitched and never returned to her pups at the Summer Hunting Grounds.)

* She also marks the second time that a wolf who is heir to the pack dies during their reign (the first being Lark.)
* At the end of Rosetta’s story, Seri looked at the map to see how big her territory was even if Rosetta’s lifetime quest was to never look at the map. Since this was after her death and her generation’s official ending though it doesn’t count as a failed lifetime quest.