Excerpt from "The Wolf-Children: Guide to our neighbors to the East" Written by Meesta Brundo: Council Scribe~ Era 1: Year 6
"At birth, some children are blessed. The spirit of the wolf mixes with their own. This gives them the power to call upon the wolf at will, and when not channeling the wolf are gifted with heightened senses, reflexes, and strength. The price they pay is once a month being forced to give themselves over to the wolf, on the night of the full moon, the wolf takes over, controlling their actions, and running free with only it's own inhibition. This causes a great fear toward the wolf-children, the humans demanding to be separated from these "monsters." The land became divided, the wolf-children controlling the east, the humans controlling the west.
While our world consists of mostly villages, with a few cities like the capital. The wolf-children differ, some wander in groups called "packs" with an Alpha, or a leader, controlling the pack. The underlings are called Betas, they make up the meat of the pack. Some of them also have villages, with their own forms of government. It is not known if they have currency, or churches to the Elder Gods in these villages, as since the split, no human has been through there. There are also those who wander around without a pack, these are Omegas. These are wolf-children who have either been abandoned by, or removed from the pack. This is more common than it is believed, due to limited resources, especially in the wandering packs, if one does not pull their weight, they do face the threat of being removed. This is very dangerous for the now Omega. As without the love, security, or comfort a pack provides, they tend to become feral, or wild. Usually either dying due to the stress put on their bodies and mind, or submitting completely to the wolf, and letting it take over. The Omegas brought the first fear of the wolf-children as they were aggressive toward humans, attacking children who mistook the wolves for dogs. After this fear began to spread, humans began to quake at the sight of all of the wolf-children, even the youngest ones.
The belief that being human guarantees you a human child is false, you do have a higher chance of your child being simply human, but just as a wolf-child can have a human, a human may give birth to a wolf-child. Back when the lands were one, this was not a problem, but now that it is separate we have made a system. The child's species is revealed at their first full moon, when they are either taken over by the wolf, or sleep peacefully. If a child is born on the wrong side of the line, they are brought to the border, where Temple Priests allow them to adopt from the children brought over from the other side. This maintains the balance. If a wolf-child is found where the humans are, they are immediately brought back. It's the same if a human attempts to live among the wolf-children. Thus our two lands are kept in harmony for future generations."
