In the small town of Antheram, when the moon is nearly gone, and the sky is dark. A beast awakens. No one knows who the beast really is. But it's said that he lives in the middle of the forest dividing Antheram from the rest of Minnesota. Some say he lives among them, in a little abandoned house upon a hill on the outskirts of the town. And then there is the legion of the wolves.
It is said that before the state was colonized and before any other people lived there. A wolf was badly injured after his pack was mysteriously killed. He was all that was left. And he howled the best he could to the moon. Asking if the spirits would save him. Begging with the gods to spare him. And that a ray of light fell upon him and they're in front of him was a woman. She was dressed in nothing more then a see through silky material. That wrapped around her like mist. Her hair was long and brown, her skin was tan and her eyes were a deep blue. Unlike anything the wolf had ever seen in his life. And she knelt beside him and said
'If you wish for me to help you, you must give me something in return.' Her calm soprano voice surrounded the wolf and drew him in. the wolf looked at her. He was slipping, and was going to die. And he whispered to her
'I will do anything.' She smiled at him and replied.
'Even become my mate?' the wolf didn't understand. But wanted to live.
'Yes.' He replied. And she placed her hands over her eyes, and then moved them over his. 'No longer will you see as an animal.' She whispered. She swayed her hands around her face and body, then around his. 'Never will you look as an animal.' And then placed both hands over where her heart would be, then her left over his heart, and her right over his minds eye. 'And last, I give you an immortals soul.' She said. 'You will have both the soul of a wolf, and the soul of an immortal.' And she smiled at the new image of what once was the wolf. And what was now a man. With tan skin to mach hers, dark black hair and light brown eyes.
She stood in front of him and giggled, seeing his new human parts. No longer the thing chest of a wolf. But the large chest of a man, and arms and legs that didn't have paw's at the end, but hands and feet. He stood before her and then stared at himself looking at his new limbs and touching the skin of his arms. She walked up to him and cupped his face in her hands. He stared at her in amassment. Everything was different in a human body. She kissed him and they both left to her home within the stars. She told him of her family. Of her brothers and sisters. She told him the story of her life. And when she asked his name he stated Karaph. And when he asked hers she smiled and said.
"My name is Antheram, the goddess of the wolves."