Wolves

People flock to them, seeking a
new place to live

They settled on a hill where
Aurena left this world

Len and Sen decided to name the
place Les

The boys worked together on bringing down beasts far larger and stronger than themselves.
Ren started by distracting the beast while len impaled the beast with his spears.
The beast then aggroed to len and ren used this opportunity to scale the beast and mount it.
Ren repeatedly stabbed the beast along its back and neck while holding onto it.
Len used this opportunity to continue impaling the beast, immobilizing it.
The beast lied dead.
The boys came back with their trophies back to their mother.
Aurena looked proud and after saying goodbye to her kids, blessed them and went back to the realm of loas.

This
tale about humanity's first hunt become the template of future hunting methods,
especially for Selen. What allowed both of them to become the first to be able
to hunt beasts is not necessarily their equipment or fighting skill, though
those certainly helped, but their ability to work together and coordinate to
achieve one goal. As for selens themselves, they also copied their ancestor's
equipment as well, using spears to immobilize beast from a distance and using
daggers to attack the beast's weakness up close.

Selen’s
hunting capabilities are unmatched, especially because every aspect of the wolf
tribe’s trait and blessing are geared up towards hunting. Their sense of smell
is greater than any other tribes and allowed them to track their game. Their
blessing allowed them to work together and coordinate with any other tribe as
long as selen is in charge of leading the hunting party. Along with the
accumulated knowledge of the beast’s behavior, strength and weakness, all of
these culminated into the most effective hunter that humanity can produce.

Traditionally,
there is no real formal training of becoming a selen. A selen will pick someone
and take him to hunt together. If the person showed promising attributes to
become a selen and the selen liked him enough, he will offer the person to
become his apprentice. If the person accepts, then his journey to becoming a
selen has begun. There is no guideline to be followed in training an apprentice
and what a selen teach his apprentice is entirely up to him. However, once a
selen picked up an apprentice, he's obligated to do his best to make his
apprentice into a selen as well and failure to do so will bring him great
shame, so a selen can't just fool around and do as he pleases. Once, an
apprentice is deemed worthy enough by his mentor, he will be sent to the lodge
by the cliff to join other apprentices to learn about working together.
Apprentices in this lodge by all skills and measure are already able to pass
the hunter's exam but while every other tribe have what it takes to become a
hunter, only a few are able to become a leader of a hunting party. Beside
learning leadership and working together, they are also taught about the
hunting rituals of the wolf tribe by the priests from the temple just beside
the lodge. After an apprentice is able to lead a hunting party on several
successful hunts, he will be ordained as as selen and given a crescent blade
called rien as a symbol of authority.The apprentice can take a hunter’s exam
before he entered the lodge and gain his hunter’s license but he’s still
required to enter the lodge if he wishes to become a selen.

Recently
however, the role of selen has shifted from leading a hunting party into
managing hunter's association. With hunters being the only thing that can
protect human from beasts, hunters are an invaluable component to any
settlements. Wolf tribe, which the greatest of hunters hailed from, created the
hunter's association with guilds as their regional office. A selen is elected
or placed into a guild and is tasked in the management of the guild, ranging
from recruitment, training and dispatchment of hunters, ensuring every hunter
the guild is harboring is qualified and ready for duty. Because of this, the
education process of most selen become that of an academic one with minimal
field study. It has been said by other tribes that the wolf tribe has lost its
fangs.

### Rien

The
moon was pleased to see her grandchildren able to face the challenges of this
world

Not
only they were able to erect a settlement, they were also able to reach to other
tribes as well

She
decided to help them unite and lead other tribes

So,
she gave them a piece of herself

One
interpretation of this tale is that the moon give a piece of herself in the
form of girien, a giant crescent blade said to be wielded by Len after
receiving the moon’s blessing. The blade is massive, almost as tall as a person
and no normal man could lift it due to its sheer weight. And yet, if a person
is liked by the moon, the blade will weigh next to nothing. The blade is said
to be indestructable and still exist to this day as a symbol that showed that
the wolf tribe chosen by the moon herself to lead other tribes. Rien is based
of girien, scaled down to wieldable size and weight so that every selen can
wield it. Unlike spears and daggers that primarily function as a tool for
hunting, rien is a sword that is better suited to cut down other human. This
serves as a sign of authority that a selen can and if necessary will kill other
people to maintain cohesion and coordination. That being said, rien can also
function quite well as a hunting weapon in the hand of a selen.

### Coen

After they hunted together, they
would camp for dinner

On top of fire, a cauldron made
of copper

They put any ingredient they've
collected in the boiling water

Waiting for their meal, they
huddle by the fire to get warmer

Len and Sen missed their mother,
especially the scent of her

On nights like this, as a family
they would gather

She would cook a stew, easy to
swallow and chase away the hunger

No matter how hungry they may be,
she kept a few cups for later

From this few, more water and
ingredient will be added till it becomes proper

Thus, just like their mother's
love, so will the stew last forever

Coen, also known as perpetual
stew, it is the signature dish of the hunters that is served at their guild. As
the alternate name implies, the stew is never really eaten until it's gone but
its stock is always kept a little before being replenished by various
ingredients that the hunters of that guild managed to bring back. It's said
that this stew can be traced back to the times when Len and Sen hunted for the
first time. Any ingredient will add some color to the rich flavor of the stock
and because the stock is created from the history of countless hunts, if it's
lost, it can never be recreated. Each hunting guild has its own flavor because
they each have different hunters hunting and gathering different ingredients.
This unique flavor of each guild can be sampled and tasted at the same time
during the moon festival of the wolf tribe. During this festival, each guild
master come back to Les hill and compete with each other over who has the best
stew. In the end however, everyone will pour their stew to the twin's melting
pot in order to commemorate the first hunt and give thanks to Aurena for her
blessing upon the tribe. The combined stew will then be eaten by the entire
wolf tribe while telling stories of their hunt so that they too may experience
what other hunters from different sides of the world experienced.