This is the untold words of the central packs of Jasper Park. Here, I, DogDrawler will tell you the rich predicted story part by part of the United Regions, giving you the struggles of the Regions, the wars in enormous depth, and explaining the concept of the birth of the packs. As an expert in wolves and their society, I will give you the facts. I will promise not to make this like a boring documentary, but an interesting read that I hope all of you will like. Thanks for the support. Enjoy reading. :)
Part 1: The Beginnings of a Pack (written from September 13th to September 15th, 2014) Rated T for violence and brief sexual content.
Winter, 1981
(29 human years before the Alpha and Omega event)
The snow mixes... The snow falls... The snow falls in pairs in a cloudy void. A lone wolf awaits after a journey he never thought possible, escaping the warring regions of his homeland thousands of miles to the northeast. He has been traveling forever. Following trails with no end. He is a lone wolf. He seeks... a female. His name... is Canis. His appearance is unknown to history. What he does, creates families... packs... and new cooperation but also wars... famines... and plagues; devastation for everybody.
He speaks a wolf language very different from today known as Manitobian Wolfish but, his future mate (who was dropped by humans) named Floran speaks what we know as West Canadian Wolfish. In time, "hi" will be the dominant greeting of the land. However, Jasper Park is thick wilderness. Danger was at every corner. There were barely any wolves, aside from occasional lone males. It was time for a new beginning. A new hope.
In the center of the park, in between the mountain range, there is a huge valley in the shape of bowl called the Grand Valley which was filled with many trees, lakes, hills, smaller valleys, small plateaus, waterfalls, streams, rivers, and other isolated mountains such as Moonlight Howl Rock, almost like it was its own mini-ecosystem. What will be home to more than fifty wolves today has a population of zero... until now.
Canis and Floran meet. After moons of searching for a reflection of themselves, they find each other, according to legend, on Moonlight Howl Rock which is why the Moonlight Howl is celebrated to this day.
Although it was hard to understand one another through words, they communicated perfectly through their hearts and souls, bringing both of their languages together in a way all wolves know best: howling, the most unique and beautiful communication tool known anywhere.
They agreed to start a family together, a pack. To do this, they must mate in a secure location where they will be locked together for about half an hour. A risky move... that only a wolf is destined for.
Wolves have no shame when it comes to this. The event that exchanges the genetic material of every wolf in central Jasper Pack is done right in the open field in the present-day territory of the Southern Pack at the start of spring. During the pregnancy of about sixty-three days, the couple will spend most of it planning the territory. And what made these wolves special is that they wanted a huge territory. In fact, so huge, it pretty much covered the whole Valley. To scent mark or clawmark all of this, it would take many moons to complete which it did. This was not a smart move.
Well beyond the birth of the first wolves in central Jasper, the territory was already beginning to weaken. It was hard to take care of their three pups and secure their pack at the same time. There just wasn't enough wolves. And just to make matters worse, surrounding the Valley were a bunch of old foreign superpowers that have been dominating Jasper for hundreds of years. At any time, one of them could just come up and conquer them without much resistance. They were sitting ducks. But they didn't give up. They were still able to nurture their three male pups named: August, Julian, and Zane.
Their oldest, August was the heir. He was a brown wolf who was brave and kind. As soon as he graduated Alpha School, he was immediately put on the edges of the territory to keep watch over the borders. It tested him to the core. These superpowers were really strong packs, especially the notorious Black Mountain Pack who had a population of forty-one and an empire a hundred miles long and wide. You needed to be brave to face them.
Zane, their only Omega was a black generous and funny wolf who officially started the Omega School and came up with the pack's name. A name that is still alive. They called themselves the Grand Pack. A name that seemed like a name in epics. This name was too grand for a pack that had just started, but a disease that swept through the Black Mountain Pack made it more respectable.
Julian, the second oldest son was a brown Alpha who was the runt. He was a natural hunter thanks to the plentiful game of the Hole. His heart was always in the right place, though he constantly got confused with the cruel world he was born into. His emotions got the best of him and on August's third birthday, he committed suicide by jumping off a cliff known as Bear Teeth Edge. It is said that his blood flowed down the nearby river, letting the rest of the family know what happened.
This small family was a pack that stayed together. They were... the Grand Pack. And Canis was their first pack leader.
Coming up: Packs will always struggle. When disease and war comes, the Grand Pack will have to survive. The Grand Pack's questions will always shape the pack. Can this family stay as one?