Timeline

Currently more or less a copypaste of the docs. Prune this and put the details on separate pages.

Years are often abbreviated as Y1, Y2, etc. on the actual pages. I don’t have a style guide for capitalizing seasons but maybe I should.

Wolves who belong to other players aren’t mentioned by name, out of respect to those players’ privacy.

Year 0: Winter

Pack foundation: After a strange dream unites the trio, lone wolves Diorite, Andesite, and Talak band together in Cougar’s Maw on Jackdaw’s Peak.
Recruited Myrtle, Idril, and Oriole Epaulet. Talak and Idril form a hunting party, Hawk’s Eyes, with Talak as stalker, Idril as finisher, and both as chasers.

A brief but eventful period sees the founding of a new pack on Jackdaw’s Peak, with Diorite and Andesite as leads and Talak as the first follower. Diorite quickly sets out to recruit more members: Myrtle is basically a big ol’ puppy and Oriole is certain of her ability to contribute to the growing pack; both were met on friendly terms. Idril, however, challenged Diorite’s authority, and she was only impressed by his assertive rebuttal. Andesite, unamused by Idril’s challenge, advises Diorite to use more discretion in future recruitment efforts.

Year 1

Spring

Birth of Diorite and Andesite’s pups, Husk and Bone. They enjoy a 100% survival chances throughout puphood.
Myrtle temporarily takes up scouting, although Andesite resumes duties while still nursing, and Oriole assumes pupsitting duties.
Recruited two glaucous wolves in quick succession. The older leaves shortly after.
- Despite being second to arrive, the second wolf deems the older redundant, and may or may not have chased them off.
Myrtle officially becomes an herbalist.
Two more wolves temporarily join; the former leaves quickly, the latter lingers.
Towards the end of the season, after three successful hunts, Talak picks up fleas; these are cured at the start of summer.

Despite Andesite’s advice, Diorite continues recruiting every wolf he meets, though not all stay. He and Andesite also have two pups; Oriole raises both. Myrtle also finds a niche in the pack as herbalist when she gets back in touch with a cross-region herb trading network. By the end of the season, the second glaucous wolf (henceforth known as “Glaucous”) is the only recruit who’s stayed.

Summer

Met another wolf; the second visitor from springtime leaves.
Glaucous becomes a scout.
Later, Glaucous contracts distemper overnight, which is quickly cured but leaves her with hardened pads and neurological tics.
Diorite begins exploring the grasslands in search of herb variety, and subsequently alternates between here and the mountains.
Recruited Drove as the much-needed finisher of Hawk’s Eyes.
- Oriole reconsiders whether the pack needs her as another hunter, but decides to stay at least until Husk & Bone are adolescents.
A glaucous male, Monsoon, arrives.
Diorite has pups with a wolf from the coniferous forest.
Summer’s first passerby leaves; another glaucous female (Tsunami) joins shortly after.
Diorite challenges a pack in the grasslands and, despite a close fight, gets beat to a pulp. (He’d never hit 0 HP before this.)
After a hunt, Drove is saddled with ticks, which are quickly cured.
Diorite beats up a rando potential-NBW in pursuit of a snake quest.
At the end of the season, Talak suffers a post-hare-hunt open wound and Glaucous contracts influenza. The former is cured quickly; however, Myrtle is unable to cure the latter.

The Maw continues to welcome a revolving door of stray wolves, most of whom leave within a few days. Between Glaucous as scout, Drove’s arrival, and how Oriole raises Husk and Bone, the pack establishes a precedent of taking on a job as soon as possible if one intends to stay. Monsoon, however, poses a challenge with his arrival, as he shows no interest in either contributing or leaving.

Meanwhile, Glaucous proves not even illness will stop her scouting, and Diorite’s aggressive tendencies lead to a close (and unvictorious) fight with a pack in the grasslands. (Diorite has mentioned dreams from the “questing snake” before, but this season marks the first time a quest led him to attack a potential recruit/friend.) These developments worry the pack, but as both wolves continue working hard, nothing comes of either.

Autumn

Husk and Bone reach adolescence.
Monsoon catches influenza and is quarantined; he ends up chased shortly after.
Despite still being sick, Glaucous resumes scouting.
Oriole finds and cares for a stray pup, June.
Andesite and Glaucous begin surpassing Diorite’s level.
Diorite contracts distemper, which is quickly cured and leaves no lasting physical or neurological effects. He’s still shaken, however.
Recruited Leveret, Drove’s sister, in the grasslands. She quickly joins her younger brother in the hunt.
Met an ashen male.
Hawk’s Eyes chases down large prey for the first time. Drove sustains an open wound, which is quickly cured.
The second glaucous female (Tsunami) leaves.
June grows to adolescence and is chased. Oriole subsequently looks after another stray pup, though he too leaves upon adolescence.
Another random wolf visits.
Glaucous’ influenza is cured (5 IRL days later).
Talak suffers another open wound from an unsuccessful small hunt; it’s immediately cured. Overall they’ve been taking the biggest HP hits of the party, but they continue hunting undeterred.

When Monsoon catches Glaucous’ influenza, she chases him out of the pack, simultaneously proving her own loyalty (to Diorite, anyway) and solidifying the “role or bust” standard. Diorite also bonds with Glaucous after he reaches out in the wake of a distemper scare; he becomes the first and (for a long time) only packmate she willingly spends time with. With Leveret’s addition, the cavern starts to feel cramped. Nonetheless, the Maw sees multiple passerby again this season, including two stray pups; word of the cougar vacancy (and, to a lesser extent, the pack now living there) is beginning to spread.

Winter

The ashen male and second visitor are chased (on the cusp of leaving anyway from neglect).
Jackrabbit, Drove and Leveret’s younger sibling, joins.
Andesite and Idril breed to outside studs.
Diorite and Glaucous breed.
Drove picks up fleas from a hunt; quickly cured.

A fairly uneventful season. Jackrabbit is unimpressed by the pack’s committal to purpose, an uncertainty he shares with Bone. None of the pregnancies this round are necessarily intentional, but wolves gonna wolf.

Year 2

Spring

Husk and Bone reach adulthood; Bone leaves for lack of space (and purpose), accompanied by Jackrabbit, while Husk becomes the fifth and final member of Hawk’s Eyes.
Diorite begins exploring the prairie for a snake quest but also to catch up with his son. His search is fruitless.
Carcass joins the pack. With this, the pack has 10 adults, which is the most they can support without expansion.
Back in the mountains, Diorite picks up a bobcat tail as a trophy.
Andesite, Idril, and Glaucous begin nesting, shortly before the former two are due.
Birth of Andesite and Fallow’s pups: to the former, Flint, Gravel, and Basalt; to the latter, Taru, a magnolia pup*, Milu, and Brocket.
- Oriole is overwhelmed; Husk suggests she gives them more leeway than she did Husk and Bone.
- *Idril doesn’t name her pups at first, for fear of getting attached. Suffice it to say this didn’t work, athough the magnolia pup left before receiving a name.
On returning from a hunt, Leveret sustains an open wound and Drove shows signs of infection. Both are quickly cured.
Birth of Glaucous and Diorite’s pups: Cobble, Aphid, and Cricket.
At the bidding of the questing snake, Diorite beats up some bears.
- First ventures into the coniferous forest (for bears) and desert (for healing). The first encounter in the latter is a cougar; fled immediately.
- From one bear Diorite claims fangs as a trophy.
- Second to last beat him up.
Meanwhile, Flint suffers a small injury.
Idril suffers an open wound from a hunt. (insta-cured)
Myrtle hits 100% proficiency.
Talak gets yet another open wound from hunting. (insta-cured)
Taru visits a nearby pack and gets a bite wound for his troubles.

At the start of the season, Bone and Jackrabbit bid the pack farewell; almost on their heel, Carcass (another young adult around Husk & Bone’s age) joins. When all the pups are born, Oriole attempts to have Carcass assist with pupsitting, but the litters are still overwhelming.

Meanwhile, spurred by unconfessed upset in the wake of Bone’s leave (and after trying in vain to find him in the prairie), Diorite becomes more aggressive while exploring. He starts claiming trophies from successful battles and, undertaking his first quest to defeat bears, ventures into new territories for fighting and healing alike.

Summer

Three wolves pick up fleas from separate sources in quick succession: Andesite from the tundra, Leveret from a hunt, and Glaucous from the prairie. All three are quickly cured.
Idril hits 0 HP (twice) and is forced to take a break from hunting; Carcass temporarily takes her place as hunter/stalker.
Myrtle breeds to an outside stud for her last heat.
Cricket declares herself “leader of the bees” and gets stung trying to steal honey.
Taru goes missing; his body is found circled by jackdaws, marking the pack’s first death.
Leveret gets an infection from a hunt. (insta-cured)
Cobble chokes on a sharp bone and dies.
The marigold pup leaves for another pack.
Gravel gets in a scuffle with Milu over food; the former is victorious but somewhat injured.
Andesite gets an infection while scouting. (insta-cured)
Flint gets another small injury.
Milu dies from a previously-unnoticed injury, presumably from his fight with Gravel.
Birth of Myrtle’s pups: [two names redacted], Micah, and Sage. Oriole shifts focus to them while Idril, still healing, looks after the rest as a temporary pupsitter.
At the very end of the season, Diorite fights two more bears on a snake quest.

Disaster strikes the pack in the form of Idril’s injury, which forces her out of the hunting team (albeit temporarily), and pup death: Taru’s body is found broken in a trench, which is later named after him & becomes the resting place for subsequent deaths; and Cobble and Milu suffer less dramatic demises. Idril’s secondborn leaves the pack for another, leaving only Brocket; he treads carefully in the wake of his littermates’ fates.

Despite such tragedy, Myrtle catches pup fever and endeavors to have pups of her own before she gets too old; she’s been unable to interest Husk, Bone, and Carcass in taking her place as herbalist, and doesn’t want knowledge of the trade network to die with her. Fortunately, by the time her litter is born, Oriole and Idril are working together as pupsitters. The remaining pups seem well on their way to adulthood, sobered after the earlier deaths, but…

Autumn

Flint is found dead, mangled near a bear’s den.
Diorite begins exploring the tundra and kills three elephant seals for the snake quest; from the first he takes teeth as a trophy.
Aphid and Cricket survive to adolescence.
Back in the mountains, Diorite claims a cougar’s claw as a trophy.
Myrtle’s pups are weaned; one leaves for another pack.
Sage also attempts to become “leader of the bees” and is stung for his troubles.
Hawk’s Eyes begins pursuing more difficult prey at greater frequency.
Husk and (slightly later) Drove pick up fleas (insta-cured).

Flint will be the pack’s last pup death (in the Mountains, at least), but his demise is no less jarring. It seems he’s been killed by adolescent bears using him as a plaything, not as an act of vengeance, but Diorite can’t shake off the dread—and throws himself deeper into the questing snake’s whims, further away from the pack, to cope.

As the pack can’t physically fit more adults, Gravel tosses around the idea of leaving the pack together with the season’s other survivors, but finds scant support; her greatest influence is on Sage, who along with two of his littermates shows little interest in staying with the Peak. Micah, however, takes quickly to his mother’s teachings, and seems poised to follow her herbalist pawprints.

Winter

Having healed fully, Idril rejoins Hawk’s Eyes; Carcass sets out as a solo hunter.
Aphid contacts cough, which isn’t cured.
Noki leaves for another pack.
New trophy: bear tooth.
Micah and Sage reach adolescence. Finally relieved of her pupsitting duties, Oriole becomes a hunter/finisher to help Carcass.

Another thankfully uneventful winter. Aphid, downcast, refuses to show or allow treatment for his cough; Gravel doubles down on her efforts to convince the pups to leave, and by the end of the season she’s caught most of their attention. (Basalt, however, is indecisive.) Noki, having already found another home, leaves early. Undeterred by the weather, Idril resumes hunting; Carcass continues hunting for the pack, albeit solo as not to step on Idril’s paws. While Idril was healing, she and Oriole bonded closely, and when Micah and Sage are old enough to look after themselves, Oriole finally drops the pupsitting mantle to set out as a hunter herself (on a new team, to help Carcass). Meanwhile, Glaucous spots a sickly-looking adolescent around the prairie. Neither approaches first, but this happens too often to be coincidental.

Year 3

Spring

The entire map is scouted. Diorite visits the glacier and it seems weirdly familiar.
A new wolf, the adolescent Wickfen, joins the pack.
All on the same day:
- Gravel, Brocket, and Basalt reach adulthood; the first two leave for lack of space.
- Cricket contracts cough from her brother.
- Basalt contracts pox out of nowhere.
- Basalt, Aphid, Cricket, and Sage leave the pack.
Drove takes another open wound from a hunt. (insta-cured)
A relative of Oriole’s, Moriche Epaulet, drops by from the desert.
Back in the glacier, Diorite fights an arctic wolf pack and claims a tail as a trophy. Horrified, Moriche leaves.
Diorite encounters, but doesn’t befriend/recruit, more glaucous wolves in the desert.
Diorite is defeated by and contracts influenza from a snowy owl. (cure bought, used within the day)
Drove hits 0 HP but refuses to take a break; as a compromise, Hawk’s Eyes hunts only once a day.
Diorite recruits yet another glaucous wolf.
Back in the mountains, Diorite fights a wolf pack for a snake quest and is thoroughly curbstomped + forced to flee. After healing, he defeats two potential-recruits to fulfill the quest instead.
Wickfen reaches adulthood and sets out as a solo hunter.
Still in the mountains, Diorite is defeated by and gains an infection (insta-cured) from a ram. Healing and another venture north later he then has a close fight with a glacier bear—which also defeats him.

Early in the season, Diorite takes a trip way up north to the glacier and is hit with deja vu. He starts entertaining the idea of moving the pack there eventually, as he hopes it’ll shed light on his and Andesite’s origins, as well as explain what his quest dreams have been about. No plans are set in stone, but considering the strife with the neighbors from Taru’s ventures (and Diorite being Diorite), the pack fears they’ll be forced to leave first.

As the weather warms, youth come and go: Gravel sets her exodus in motion, bringing with her Brocket, Cricket, Aphid, and Sage; Basalt lingers but ultimate ly leaves as well. Meanwhile, the adolescent Glaucous kept encountering finally introduces himself as Wickfen, and he follows her back to the pack with promises of helpfulness if they allow him shelter; he later follows through as a solo hunter.

Midway through the season, a wolf from Oriole’s former pack, Moriche Epaulet, stops by; when Diorite brings back a wolf tail from the north as yet another trophy, Moriche leaves in horror. This spurs multiple attempts on Diorite’s life from packs; though he survives them all, he’s keenly aware that if the pack doesn’t get driven out, he will. Meanwhile, Drove sustains an injury similar to Idril’s; though he’s similarly stubborn and insists he can keep hunting, it’s clear the pack couldn’t handle a war.

Summer (part 1: Mountains)

Leveret picks up ticks from a hunt. (insta-cured)
In light of a wolf slaying quest, the pack finally begins moving. All work is halted* as the pack gathers and plans. (*Sans Diorite, who’ll be “scoping out the territory” and defeating would-be foes in advance.) They set their sights on the Coniferous Forest, with the eventual goal of the Glacier, one northward biome at a time.
Diorite catches influenza from a desert healing detour. (insta-cured)
Diorite defeats a cougar among the conifers, and the move is officiated.

The questing snake compels Diorite to slay more wolves, and thus he declares it’s time for the pack to move. Despite some restlessness among the ranks, it’s clear that if wolves aren’t here for Diorite anymore, they’ve made other friends, or are getting something else from the pack that compels them to stay. (Leveret, however, starts entertaining the idea of jumping ship, though she sticks with the pack for the move.)

During the move, the pack stays along the mountains west of the coniferous forest, though Diorite scouts both the cliffs and woodland for territory. When he finds and ultimately defeats a cougar, it seems like they’ve found home—for now.

Summer (part 2: Coniferous Forest)

Following the cougar’s defeat, the pack settles in the coniferous forest, intending to stay at least until next spring. They announce their arrival with a group howl.
While exploring the forest, Diorite meets an arrogant wolf, Hallow, who follows him back to the pack.
Drove, rejuvenated, resumes hunting. Hawk’s Eyes (Talak, Idril, Husk, Drove, and Leveret) takes down a moose cow carcass: the first large hunt in the new territory.
Hallow expresses interest in siring a litter for Oriole and Idril. He becomes a hunter (chaser, alongside Carcass as stalker and Oriole as finisher) to earn his keep.
Foxes seem to have proliferated in the lands. From Diorite’s first fight with one (in the desert), he claims the trophy of a gray fox tail. It seems to be one of the first ten in the world.
Wickfen meets and befriends experienced chaser Zephyr, who’s been around and is happy to settle with the Jackdaws.
Towards the end of the season, Micah reaches adulthood.

The pack, now named Jackdaw’s Flight, settles in the coniferous forest. By the end of summer they have two new members: the mysterious Hallow, who takes interest in Oriole, and the hunter Zephyr, who becomes fast friends with Wickfen. Despite some misgivings about welcoming new wolves so hastily, neither seem to have nefarious intentions and are allowed to stay.

Autumn

At the start of the season, Micah contracts distemper (insta-cured).
A warm wolf drops by from the desert for like a day. In the interim, Carcass gets an open wound (insta-cured).
The questing snake has Diorite slay a couple reptiles, both of which end up being desert snakes; from the second he takes snake meat as a trophy. (It tastes horrible.)
In the middle of the season, Myrtle dies, and Micah takes her place as sole herbalist. Much of the pack mourns her loss.
Oriole and Drove “pair-bond” in an agreement for Drove to sire a litter for her and Idril, largely because they trust Drove more. Strategically, he’s also much stronger than Hallow.
In the desert, Diorite meets a chased wolf for the first time, but his friendly first impression puts her off.
Idril and Oriole announce their matehood and take the surname Aspen. After a celebratory pack hunt or two, Drove agrees to adopt the Hawkeye surname. (The offer is also repeated for Leveret, but she denies.)
Oriole becomes pregnant via Drove, as agreed, if a little early and not necessarily expected/on purpose. Upon discovery, the pack is apprehensive about having a litter during winter in the midst of a move.
Micah starts stocking up on cures, aiming for 5 times more than the 1 extra Myrtle had onhand.
Andesite gets an open wound from a glacier scout. (insta-cured)
- Maybe an enemy pack? Diorite’s snake quest brings him back to the mountains; not sure if he beats up a pack or tries to make peace.
Another reptile quest ensues; from one Diorite takes a new trophy, rattlesnake skin.

The start of the season is somewhat uneventful, but the middle brings great change: Myrtle passes away, after months of anticipating her demise to old age, and Micah takes her place as herbalist. But brighter days are ahead: Idril and Oriole announce their mateship with a new surname, Aspen, and the Jackdaws enjoy a bountiful pack hunt to celebrate. In the spirit of kinship, Drove is finally convinced to adopt the Hawkeye surname. He also agrees to sire a litter for Oriole in case the couple wants biological pups—though considering her age, they’re not counting on it.

Things take a hesitant turn south towards the end of the season, however. It seems Oriole underestimated her pupbearing capabilities, and the pack is apprehensive about a winter litter. Meanwhile, Andesite returns from a scout with an open wound; it seems the Jackdaws are not as secure here as they hoped.

Winter

When she can deny it no longer, Oriole finally starts nesting.
glaucous contracts mange from a rainforest scout (intsa-cured).
Birth of Oriole and Idril’s (and Drove’s, biologically) pups: Liesl, Jackrabbit (named for Drove’s younger brother), Grackle, and Osier. All three parents are enamored.
In the interest of keeping the pups alive, Oriole and Idril retire from hunting and become pupistters again. Drove volunteers to do the same but, as the pack’s only finisher, is dissuaded; instead, Hallow offers to pupsit as well. Meanwhile, Carcass takes Idril’s place as the new stalker of Hawk’s Eyes.
Despite everything, the coniferous forest starts feeling like home (at least to Diorite).
Towards the end of the season, the cougar returns, along with an entire pack; they launch an attack that forces the Jackdaws to flee. They trek north towards the Taiga.
- Andesite, Idril, Oriole, and Hallow are curbstomped. Diorite, Talak, Husk, and Drove fight well. Wickfen and Zephyr join the fray late but succeed. Micah escapes without injury, if only because a wolf from the attacking pack defends him—someone Micah thought was a friend, and perhaps guilty for having played double agent in the first place. Glaucous, Leveret, and Carcass emerge neither badly hurt nor notably successful.
Wickfen gets an open wound from a hunt. (RNG: cured)
While on the run, Diorite attempts to negotiate with a pack in the taiga. This goes poorly.
Another encounter, with a different party from the same pack, yields a new trophy, a canine fang. This time, one wolf (Mouse) recognizes Hallow, and demands all the Jackdaws follow her back to the Boreas wolves.

Despite earlier apprehensions, the Aspen pups are born without trouble. Roles are shuffled to ensure their survival, putting both parents back in the pupsitter role; Carcass steps up to take Idril’s place as stalker in Hawk’s Eyes, so Hallow joins the pupsitting party as well.

For a time, things are settled. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, the Jackdaws are attacked by both the cougar they chased out in summer and a rival pack. There are no fatalities, but the Jackdaws are forced to flee prematurely. Micah leaves with his head bowed; a friend he made was among the attackers. Although that individual seems to have had a change of heart during the fray, it’s clear the intent was to chase the Jackdaws out for good.

During the exodus, both Diorite and Andesite reconsider their tactics; Andesite, disappointed by her defeat in the fight (residual injury from Autumn be damned), considers taking time off scouting to hunt, as more of a packmate than leader. Meanwhile, when the pack encounters strangers in the Taiga, Diorite tries to negotiate for shetler—and fails. However, in a second encounter with different wolves from the same pack, one wolf (Mouse) demands the Jackdaws follow her back to the Boreas wolves. While their motives remain unclear, the Boreas wolves offer the Jackdaws shelter. Mouse, among other older packmates, seem to recognize Hallow, and not for the better.

Year 4

Spring

The pups are weaned. Oriole and Idril go out for a hunt, leaving the four with Hallow; however, Mouse pulls him aside, and while he’s not paying attention, a starving raptor swoops in and kills Grackle and Osier. Hallow is shunned for his negligence.
Diorite attacks Silverback in a reckless assault; Hallow and Andesite intervene before things get fatal. Although this officiates the Jackdaws’ freedom from the Boreas wolves, Diorite’s “tendency” has become impossible to ignore.
- The pack officially moves to the Taiga in gameplay, though in lore their search for home continues.
While searching for a home, the pack briefly encounters a bright orange wolf with multicolored eyes. Weird.
At the end of the season, Oriole dies. Idril and Drove hesitantly allow Hallow back into their lives, if only for the pups’ sakes.

The start of the season ushers in new turmoil for the Jackdaws, as in the wake of two unexpected pup deaths, Hallow’s sordid past with the Boreas wolves comes to light. Though the Boreas wolves show no hostility, spiked tensions drives Diorite to recklessly attack their leader Silverback, the usefulness (if not outright harm) of which remains unsettlingly unclear as the dust clears. But the Jackdaws are left to wander without further trouble, and the season finishes on a somber note with Oriole’s passing.

Summer

Liesl and Jackrabbit Aspen reach adolescence. They join Hawk’s Eyes and Wickfen & Hallow, respectively, as apprentice hunters.
- Leveret misses the announcement, and when confronted, she finally admits she’s been thinking of leaving the Jackdaws. Diorite, distraught, declares any wolves who want to leave will be considered enemies, but Andesite chases him down for a talk and they retract the statement. However, it seals Leveret’s decision to leave. (She sticks around onsite, however.)
Idril, personally restless and keenly aware of how downcast Hallow has been since the Boreas incidents, suggests they hunt together; if he does well, she’ll put in a good word for him to join Hawk’s Eyes before she dies.
Andesite joins Wickfen and Zephyr’s hunting team, which remains nameless, as a stalker.
Meanwhile, Leveret breeds and regrets her life decisions. Down in the desert, she meets the scatterbrained if devoted loner Esker.

What hopes to be a promising start to the season, with the Aspen pups growing up, quickly turns sour as Leveret announces her long-pondered leave and Diorite reacts poorly. The unity and leadership of the pack are both called into question; Idril considers vouching for Hallow to join Hawk’s Eyes out of sympathy, and Andesite officiates her switch from scouting to hunting.

Meanwhile, Leveret wanders south and finds herself pregnant with a stranger’s pups. She runs into a loner named Esker, who’s been exiled from their northern pack and decides that helping Leveret will win the favor of the aurora spirits. Although Leveret doesn’t get it, she appreciates the companionship.

Autumn

At the start of the season, Idril dies—but not before securing Hallow’s new place on Hawk’s Eyes. He and Drove awkwardly co-parent.
Birth of Leveret’s pups; there are four, and at Esker’s insistence, none of them are named.
- One pup, as he grows, talks about being mothered by a radiant golden wolf–who is decidedly not Leveret. Esker is intrigued.
As the weather chills midway through the season, Micah’s traitorous “friend” from the coniferous forest pack, Lichen, humbly reveals herself to the Jackdaws. When she guides them to a remote aspen forest and reconnects Micah with the trade network, the Jackdaws welcome her to the pack.
Leveret’s firstborn wanders astray and is killed under mysterious circumstances.

A graciously quiet period for the Jackdaws. Although the pack is devastated by Idril’s death, her last bid of faith on Hallow inspires him to do the same for stray youth Lichen, which pays off for the whole pack: she guides them to a new territory, a poetically fitting aspen forest, in which they decide to settle at least over winter. (glaucous keeps a close eye on Lichen anyway, seemingly to make sure she’s not up to something.)

Life for Leveret is not so sympathetic. Esker’s old tradition attaches misfortune to naming a pup before their coming-of-age ceremony, which Leveret doesn’t understand and resents, but she’s unwilling to protest at the risk of losing their good will. Tragedy strikes as winter falls upon them, when a pup goes astray and is found dead. To Esker, it’s a bad omen–and validates their worldview. This is why you don’t get attached so soon.

Winter

Leveret’s secondborn is also killed, this time by coyotes.
After some deliberation, when the Aspen pups reach adulthood, Jackrabbit leaves the Jackdaws for the Boreas wolves. The pack largely accepts his decision, although Liesl holds a grudge. She sets out as a scout, in hopes of learning more about the Boreas wolves and any other neighbors the Jackdaws may have.
glaucous joins the second party (alongside Wickfen, Zephyr, and Andesite; the team remains nameless) as a much-needed finisher. Soon Lichen also joins as a third chaser, and fifth & final member.

For the Jackdaws, the winter’s calm is a welcome respite–although Liesl is none too thrilled with Jackrabbit’s decision to leave. (Around this time, strange markings on Andesite start to become noticeable, but otherwise nothing changes.) For Leveret, winter ushers in an empty dread as yet another pup dies. When Esker notices vibrant yellow fur coming in on one remaining pup, they leave with the boy, heading northward.

Year 5

Spring

At the start of the season, Talak dies of old age but also fairly unexpectedly.
Meanwhile, Leveret’s pups reach adolescence. Esker names the one they’re with Moulin.
[Something dramtaic happens] and Andesite and Moulin, separate but near-simultaneously, get a dramatic and abrupt makeover (customization!).
Leveret’s fourth and last pup leaves her, having found a home elsewhere.
glaucous brings in two pups, [both currently nameless].

[I have no idea how to summarize this season yet, but basically when Esker and Moulin reach the Jackdaws they convince Diorite to take a journey north to ~seek answers~, both about Diorite and Andesite’s origins and this whole dramatic makeover thing. The soul-searching vacation offer is extended to Andesite too, but she stays behind to like, y’know, do her leadership job.]

Summer

Diorite catches a big fish (legendary northern pike).
Lichen joins the distemper gang real quick
second party takes down a mule deer

[Diorite returns with no answers but he found a big fish. Micah and Lichen have a few good Talks™ while she’s denbound from distemper. Quiet season.]

Autumn

Leveret dies[, which is super anticlimactic and might not even be notable if she just quietly disappears from lore, but I’m keeping her onsite for now anyway so might as well note it.]
Moulin reaches adulthood. He joins Hawk’s Eyes as a third chaser, just like his mother.
Diorite defeats a Taiga cougar. [Relevance to lore pending.]
glaucous’ pups reach adolescence and, soon after, leave the Jackdaws.

[Another quiet season. That’s… that’s about it.]

Winter

Andesite breeds to another stud.

[Maybe I should just merge the rest of the year….]

Year 6

Spring

Birth of Andesite’s pups: [lol names]
Hallow and Drove die while pursuing a caribou; Hallow was attacked, and Drove jumped in to save him.
A melanistic wolf, [insert name here], witnesses the carnage and is called over for assistance. He later joins the pack.

[Nothing is happening, god.]

Summer

[I apparently do not note weanings unless Something Important happens, but Andesite’s litter weaned at the start of the season]
[left off 2021-02-23]

last updated 2021-02-23