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The Wolf rules the wilderness and haunts the imagination of men since the dawn of time.
The wolfen are the fiercest predators on Aarklash.
Born from the union of Yllia, the moon goddess, and the
most majestic of all wolves, they roam their vast hunting
grounds and travel the Paths of Destiny with great confidence. Guided by their instincts and proud of their ancient
traditions, the wolfen have always stood against the corruption brought by the civilizations of Light and Darkness.
The Wolf is the guardian of nature and it makes sure the
law of the strongest is enforced.

Much like their wolf cousins, the wolfen live in packs.
Some of these packs, the sedentary packs, share huge territories in the middle of which mysterious stone circles stand.
These sanctuaries, standing testimony to the apparition
of the moon goddess and used as celestial observatories,
are at the heart of Wolf culture: these places are where the
wolfen celebrate their rites, where they share their secrets
and where they bury their dead. Few are those allowed to
approach without triggering the ire of the wolfen. Any trespassing is considered a declaration of war.

Long before they became powerful warriors, the wolfen
were only wolves whose pack ruled over a territory at the
heart of the great forest of Diisha.
As for the events preceding their transformation, only those
first worgs still alive can remember well.

== Chronology of the sedentary Wolfen packs ==

*Around - 1500 before the Winter of Battles : The Craftsman imposes himself as the guide of the Sphinx Empire.
*Around - 1000 before the Winter of Battles : The Sphinx Empire becomes the most powerful nation on Aarklash.
*Around - 500 before the Winter of Battles : Vile-Tis impregnates Instinct, birth of the worgs.
*Around - 200 before the Winter of Battles : Assailed by the wolfen, the Sphinx Empire disappears along with the Craftsman. Vile-
*Tis hunts down his enemy across the whole of Creation.
*0 : The Winter of Battles
*2 : The worgs raise the stone circle of Môrn in the great forest of Diisha.
*435 : Battle of the Beast of Dracynrän
*617 : Y’Anrylh and his pack massacre a Kelt village and terrorize the plains of Avagddu.
*990 : Killyox becomes pack leader.
*999 : Return of Vile-Tis to Aarklash, fall of the Throne of Stars.
*1000 : The sacred weapons of Yllia are gathered and presented to three pack leaders: Asgarh, Elhyr and Karnyrax.
*1001 : Battle of the Red Oak
*1008 : Call of the First Born

== In ancient times ==

Thousands of years ago, Instinct gave birth to trees, plants
and animals. Little by little, under her impulse, whom mortals know as Yllia, Aarklash was gifted with wildlife unique
in the whole Creation. And among this wildlife, no other species benefited more from her love than the wolf. The moon
goddess admired these courageous, untiring and untameable
animals, which lived in communities and developed tight brotherly bonds.
While the other gods watched the dwarven, goblin, elven
and human communities grow, Instinct was watching every
other living creature.
Yllia did not take part in the contests the other gods of
Aarklash competed in. She had no interest in those peoples
enslaved to powers that they worshipped blindly. She preferred to encourage the animals and creatures living across
Aarklash to terrorize the gods’ favorites.
This could have gone on for centuries if a particular event
had not disturbed the peace of the gods. One of them secretly
requested the assistance of a being known as the Craftsman, and invited him into Creation from another Realm to
defeat his opponents. The Craftsman appeared to the young
Ishim’Re nation. Soon he became the nation’s spiritual leader,
in exchange for his knowledge.

The scientific and technological expertise the Craftsman
offered allowed the Ishim’Re to become the most powerful nation on Aarklash. Within a few years what was yet to
become the Utopia of the Sphinx had defeated a large part
of its enemies and united under its banner the peoples that
were attracted by the Principle of Light.
The knowledge of the Craftsman also helped the empire
build sumptuous cities whose graceful towers reached towards the heavens. Combined with the knowledge of the
Craftsman, the mystical awareness of the Ishim’Re allowed
their scientists to assemble automatons capable of defeating
the enemies of Light on the battlefield and enforce the supremacy of the empire’s allies over Aarklash.
The empire developed so quickly that no army was able
to oppose itself to the Craftsman effectively. Humiliated
by this seemingly endless string of defeats, the gods, whose
peoples were in difficulty, decided to breathe fragments of
their godly essence into some of their fi ghters, making these
selected few their champions. They were soon imitated by
their enemies. Every army on Aarklash now had Incarnates
in its ranks.
This marked the threshold of a new age. Pushed on by the
gods, the Incarnates resorted to some of the most destructive powers in Creation: they unleashed energies that could
turn mountains to dust. Magic and faith were opposed to
science and technology. Despite their efforts, the gods were
forced to admit in horror that this confrontation was taking
Creation down the path of destruction as the conflict began
to spread to the other Realms.
The gods then turned to Yllia, since she was the only one
of them to have not entered the conflict. They begged her to
intervene to balance the struggle opposing their believers.

'''Yilia's choice'''