Canine

How it fights

A predator fights like something that has done this before and expects to again. It opens carefully, watches what you do with the first exchange, and commits only when the answer suits it. Nothing about it is overwhelming and nothing about it is forgiving either: it will take any opening you leave, and it is patient enough to wait for one rather than make its own.

Field notes

The pack runs its ground in a loop that takes days to close, and it sings at the turning points, and a watcher who has the loop can be waiting at the next point before the pack is. They test before they commit, one coming close to see what you do, and what you do is the whole of the encounter. They will follow a party for a day without closing if the party keeps its shape. In the deep cold they come nearer to the roads and the steadings, and it is not boldness, it is hunger.

Where it is met

Met in Deeps of Sundering Wall, Dripping Gullet of Southern Marches, the Long Foreland, the Echoing Hollow, the Cracked Tower, Golden Steading, Remnant of Ice Landing and Frozen Camp, by travellers of levels 5 to 35.

What it leaves

Worth hunting for the sharpening and lightning brand it leaves behind, when it leaves anything.

The roll

Under this kind stand ten of the least sort, 24 of the common sort, nine tough, 29 elite and one worldboss, and twelve named: Drovan, the Quartermaster of frostkin clans, Grimgrin, the Keeper of the Way of an outlaw company, Grimmir, the Keeper of the Way of frostkin clans, Grimwen, the Voice of an outlaw company, Helgath, the Voice of an outlaw company, Helwen, the Herald of an outlaw company, Kerrow, the Quartermaster of a beast-lord's range, Mormir, the Second of an outlaw company, Narth, the Voice of a beast-lord's range, Rauwen, the Right Hand of an outlaw company, Ulfvan, the Herald of an outlaw company and Vordis, the Voice of frostkin clans, besides one that lead without a name.