Wolfsbane
Player Info
Melanie
(updated 04-03-'08)
Personal Information
  Current Name: Wolfsbane   Function in Tribe: Herbal Healer
Previous Names: Prickle (cubname)   Nickname: N/A
Soul Name: Acon   Age: 525
Known by: Mistfall (father, D), Breeze (mother, D)   Sex: Male

Appearance
  Facial Features: A slim, rather long face, angular, his nose is a little bit hooked.
Eyes: Almond-shaped extremely light green eyes, a little bit narrow. Always seem to twinkle whimsical.
Hair: Light brown, shaggy, reaches down to his shoulders, he usually wears it in a loose tail.
 
Build: He's slender and tall, his limbs seems to be a little bit long, more agile than strong.
 
Special Marks: A long thick scar at his right elbow.

Relatives & Friends
  Parents: Father: Mistfall (deceased)   Mother: Breeze (deceased)
Other Relatives: Goldstar (sister, deceased), Muse (cousin, alive), Silhouette (cousin, alive), Haze (half-brother, deceased), Kearen (uncle, alive), Flint (nephew, alive)
 
Love/Lifemates: None.
 
Friends and Foes: He maintains a rivaly to Trueblade since ages

Abilities
Magic: Skills:
  • Sending (average)
  • Wolf Bonding (average)
  • Swimming
  • Stealth
  • Gambling
  • Gathering herbs
  • Herbal healing
  • Playing flute
  • Wolfriding
  • Singing
  • Direction Sense
  • Athletics

Clothes & Posessions
  Warm Clothes (Winter/Autumn): WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES/COLORS ETC
Thin Clothes (Spring/Summer): WHAT KIND OF CLOTHES/COLORS ETC.
 
Accessoires & Jewelry: None.
Special Posessions: Some tools to make salves and potions, an old bag for gathering from his father.
 
Weapons: Stick   Preferred Weapon: Stick
 


Character & History
  Personality: At first glance, Wolfsbane seems rather distant and serious but at second glance you'll notice he's a funny guy. He has his own quiet sense of humour that you don't notice if you don't pay attention. He isn’t always serious; in terms of pranks and the like he can take much and is always willing to take part, too, unless it affects his work or someone's health, then Wolfsbane becomes unexpectedly serious and grim.

The herbal healer has a strong sense of responsibility towards his tribe when it's about healing, especially after his sister's death.
If someone has injured themselves by taking a needless and stupied risks, then they'll get to know Wolfsbane's bitter and strict side. He'll make the healing as unpleasant and drawn-out as possible, hoping that the one who took the risk will think twice next time about it. Otherwise he can be very caring and thoughtful with the healing.
He is always open for new things and thinks that traditions have to be overthrown sometimes to improve things.

All in all, Wolfsbane is a friendly fellow but if you have made him mad at you he can be very waspish and scathing. He does not forgive easily and tends to be a bit of a cynic.
 
History: Prickle was born as the second child to Mistfall and Breeze. While his older sister inherited the gift of the healer, and was her parents’ pride and joy, Prickle often felt a little bit insufficient . His parents surely didn’t do it on purpose but young Prickle often felt disadvantaged towards his sister. But he never blamed her for it. The siblings were close to each other, especially after Breeze died as Prickle has been barely 14 years.

Sometimes Prickle was a little bit jealous of Goldstar, for her healing power, especially when she acted like she was the middle of the universe. Though he loved his older sister deeply Prickle was annoyed by her behavior now and then. So he started to tease her a little bit and named her “brat”, most of the time he used it with a wink.

While his sister had to learn all about herbs and how to use them, Prickle was prowling around a lot. He wasn’t very interested in herbs or hunting or anything and lived completely in the Now. At a young age he seemed to be completely irresponsible. Maybe he tried to catch his father's attention this way.

By this time he often fought with Dagger (later Trueblade), his agemate. It seems that they always had different opinions on nearly everything. A rivalry started, that grew over the years to a strange kind of friendship. None of them would own up to it, but they both could not live without the other and their fighting.

Prickle often got hurt here and there but never cared much about it or learned of it. Why should he? His father and his sister both were healers so he always knew he could take any risk and if he got hurt… his father or his sister would fix it.

Long time Mistfall did so, but one day as Prickle broke his arm badly during a very risky and stupid trip, he got angry by his son’s unjustifiable behavior and he refused to heal his arm with magic ordering Goldstar not to do it as well. He wanted his son to feel the consequences of his fatuity.

Mistfall made the healing as unpleasant and drawn-out as possible.

So Prickle could not use his arm for a long time and had to feel the pain as well. It was a good lesson. The young lad became much more careful and started to learn from his father and sister about herbal healing, knowing that he could not count on magic alone anymore.

By and by he really started to love working with herbs. He got better and better and finally it seemed that he know more about them than his sister, who preferred using magic over herbal healing. He especially was very fascinated by how a plant could be both salutary and toxic.

After Prickle had become more adult and had learned so hard and eagerly on the herbal healing his relationship toward his father had become closer. The healer enjoyed to teach his son, this way of healing. As Prickle was in the age of 34h attended his father on a trip to gather some special herbs. Both father and son enjoyed it very much and talked more openly than they ever had. Prickle felt for the first time in his life that his father never put his sister over him and loved both his cubs with all his heart. Unfortunately young Prickle never had the chance to enlarge this new knowledge. Mistfall died during this trip. Prickle never told anyone how it happened, but the hunters found him sitting next to his dead father, helplessly trying to help him somehow.

They needed Goldstar to get her young brother back to the holt and away from their fathers death body. After this Prickle learned harder to become a good healer. He was sure that he could have helped his father if only he had been better with the herbs.

This time Goldstar wasn't able to help him out of his bitterness and delusion. It was Dagger who get him back to normal, by pressing him more and more into their rivalry. First Prickle wasn't willing to engage in his teasing, until Dagger went so far the young herbal healer went ballistic. Secretly Wolfsbane is very grateful for Trueblade's help at this time but never would say it.

In spite of everything Prickle grew to be a very good herbalist and took the name Wolfsbane.

Long time Goldstar and Wolfsbane were the perfect team if it came to healing. She with her magic and he with his herbs. The both siblings were closer as ever to each other. Often they sat together discussing the best way of healing, fighting but always seems to be enjoy it.

The death of his sister hit Wolfsbane very hard; especially that they never found her body. After Goldstars death Wolfsbane tried everything to replace her as a healer in the tribe but knew he never could fill if fully.

Wolf Friend
  Name: Dazzle   Rank: Mid
Age: 8   Gender: Female
Personality: Dazzle is a cheerful, almost hyper she-wolf, but can be very aggressive when it comes to a fight. She's true to her elf-bond and would protect Wolfsbane against an enraged troll, if she’d have to. Dazzle's light grey fur seems nearly white. That and her cheerful nature is why she was named Dazzle.