THE BLACKBLOOD ALLIANCE

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Before the Age of Man, when spear failed against claw and Earth was in the dominion of the wild, beasts divided the land as they saw fit.

To the East, a war-faring clan known as the Stoneclaw; to the West, the peacable direwolves of Inaria. Several years of safety within Inaria's sheltering boughs had left the once vigilant wolves inattentive.

It was then, when the guard had dwindled to nearly nothing, that the sabres launched their attack.

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(Beta Blackear): Alpha Greyback, the sabres have broken through the Dry River Guard. From there, they could easily overwhelm the Den's defences!

(Alpha Greyback): Then we'll give these carcass-lickers a fight to remember.

(Alpha Greyback): Fight! Fight! For the honor of Inaria!

(Alpha Greyback): ...!

(Wolf #1): Run away!

(Wolf #2): The Alpha has fallen! Retreat! Retreat!

(Beta Blackear): Cowards! If we don't hold our ground, our young shall be slain!

(Beta Blackear): Head wisdom! Stay and fight!

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(Kita): ...But why do I have to tell her?

(Wolf #1): You were Beta Blackear's second, thus you assume his duties in the event of his death.

(Kita): Yes, but--

(Alpha Whitewind): Don't bother. I already know.

(Kita): Alpha, I am sorry.

(Alpha Whitewind): Don't pity my loss when so many others of the pack also sleep alone tonight. I'll grieve when this war is over.

(Kita): Lady Whitewind, in addition to Lord Grayback's death, the most recent attack has reduced our force's count to less than half.

(Alpha Whitewind): I feared as much...

(Kita): Yes... and I'm afraid... that at this rate, Inaria will fall before the first snow. If I may be frank... I think it's best if we begin to consider surrender a real possibility and-

(Alpha Whitewind): No. We will fight for what is ours, Kita. But we will need aid...

(Alpha Whitewind): I hope I would never have to resort to this... Kita, send our fstest scouts with orders to travel five days beyond our southermost border.

(Alpha Whitewind): They are to seek out and retrieve the Blackblood Wolves.

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(Scout #1): Ears up, pup. We've crossed into their territory.

(Blaise): Finally...

(Blaise): I need to stop for a moment... catch my breath.

(Scout #1): On your four. We should get this done quickly. I don't like it out here.

(Blaise): Relax, you've been tense this entire run.

(Scout #1): With good reason. I know that these wolves aren't on the best of terms with Inaria.

(Scout #1): And Whitewind is risking both of our lives by sending us here.

(Blaise): ...well, if they get aggressive, we'll just out run them.

(Scout #1): We won't out-anything them. Blackblood dires are huge, with long legs and powerful jaws. They can chase down sabres, and slay mammoths even.

(Blaise): Ha. That's a myth, you old grey-nose. It's imposs-

(Scout #1): I've seen it, pup. You weren't around when they were still a part of the pack, I was. The Blackbloods are a breed of giant dires, back then called the Elite Guard of Inaria, but to earn that status, each had to be accepted into a man camp and hurt prey with humans as lowly dog. The initiate became an Elite after they'd helped man bring down a mammoth.

(Scout #1): That is truth, not myth.

(Blaise): Mmm... if these wolves are as tough as you say they are, then why do they not show themselves?

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Later...

(Bloodspill): They're spies.

(Scout #1): No!

(Scout #1): We've told you! Alpha Whitewind send us. She says you can protect our pack from the teeth and claws of the sabres.

(Bloodspill): Greyback and Whitewind both know that no "Blacblood" will ever again set foot upon Inarian ground.

(Blaise): Umf... Greyback is dead.

(Scout #1) ...as is our beta. The Stoneclaw sabres push farther into our lands and we cannot hold them back much longer. Inaria needs the strength of the legendary Blackblood wolves.

(Swiftkill): Release him sister.

(Bloodspill): They tresspassed.

(Bloodspill): We should kill them.

(Swiftkill): Blood, let him go.

(Bloodspill): Hmph... spies...

(Scout #1): ..so you'll return with us and help us to defend against the invasion?

(Swiftkill): No. Inaria is on its own.

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(Blaise): ..How can you turn your back on us?

(Scout #1): Blaise, hold your tongue...!

(Blaise): We can't return to Inaria without you! You must-

(Swiftkill): I must do nothing, you naive brat. You know nothing of what Whitewind did to me - what your entire pack did to us...

(Swiftkill): Our names have been turned to dirt. Inaria has sealed its own fate.

(Blaise): I know enough. All of us - the litters born since the Elite - have been told tales of the Blackbloods. Mothers warn their ouos that if they are disobediant, Blackbloods will pluck them from the den during the night. But we took no part in the judgement that was passed upon your kind.

(Blaise) We know only the stories of that band of traitors, and their cruel leader ... Swiftkill the murderer.

(Swiftkill): ...

(Swiftkill): How dare you speak to me on that subject?! You recite lies that have been told to you by your elders.

(Swiftkill): I will tell you of the real injustice done on that summer day many years ago, and you would do well to listen. Closely.

(Scout #1): Umph!

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Four years ago, when the summer's bounty was at its height, our pack assembled for the Great Hunt -- a celebration of Inaria's long-lasting peace. Sabres had not been a threat for generations; our smallest of patrols would send them scattering - and so wisdom was valued over the vigors of the youth in Inaria. But my success in the Initiation Trials earned the respect and admiration of the elder Elites...

I was promoted to Captain of the Elite Guard by my third winter - the youngest in Inaria's history.

(Wolf #1): Hail, Captain Swiftkill, Elites Riptide and Nightrun

However, I was unaware of a small group's disdain for the Elite Guard until this afternoon...

(Wolf #1): The feast has begun. I've been sent to call you so that you may join us.

(Wolf #2): Alright! I'm starved. First one there gets to keep the antlers!

(Wold #3): Right... you can have a head start, then. Coming, Swift?

(Young Swiftkill): The Alphas would want me to continue holding the post. Someone needs to watch their pups during the feast.

(Wolf #2): Swifty - never off duty. Suit yourself, more for me..!

(Wolf #3): Don't worry, we'll bring something back for you.

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(Rapier): Swiftkill! I knew you'd stay.

(Rapier): Such a strong sense of duty... You care for my new siblings as if they were your own.

(Young Swiftkill): Rapier, you know my job as the Guard's Captain obliges me to protect the Alpha's young.

(Young Swiftkill): I watched over you and your littermates, too. Remember?

(Rapier): Mm hmm... You impress me, Swiftkill...

(Rapier): ...as you impress my parents.

(Rapier): They speak highly of you, and often, as of late.

(Rapier): In fact, they whisper...

(Rapier): ...that before they pass, they will entrust the leadership of Inaria to you.

(Young Swiftkill): The Alphas are discussing such matters already..?

(Rapier): Yes. Remarkable, isn't it?

(Rapier): What's more remarkable...

(Rapier): ...is that they would choose a Guard as their successor, rather than their own daughter.

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(Rapier): A lowly guard as Alpha of the greatest pack in existance. Isn't that interesting?

(Rapier): ...and moronic. Your kind has always been guards and warriors, nothing more. That is what Inaria made you for, hundreds of generations ago, by breeding the largest direwolves from the pack. You may be strong, but your minds are not. You exist to service us, not to lead us! And now... you unnatural beasts are to be given command of your creators? ...I think not

(Rapier): Whitewind and Greyback tell me that I do not have the makings of a leader, but they err in their judgement. I am their eldest daughter, the strongest of my litter... ...And I have followers. They have been promised positions of power once I'm Alpha, since they agreed to help me... eradicate you and the potential competition that this new litter threatens. With all of you gone, my parents will have no choice, but to appoint me as the rightful heir!

(Rapier): Destroy her.

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Здесь нет текста, только изображения, иллюстрирующие битву Swiftkill и напавших волков...

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Even as my own packmates turned on me, I attempted to hold to my sworn duty of protecting them as well as the litter...

...but Rapier, Whitewind's daughter, was a fool to believe I would simply roll belly-up in submission when confronted with an assault by me charges.

And I was a fool to believe her plan was that simple.

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(Young Swiftkill): Back down. It's not wise to fight me over this matter.

(Young Swiftkill): Is the prospect of gaining a position of power worth your life?

(Wolf #2): "Captian," for some of us, this is beyond the issue of rank. Inaria has no need for an "Elite Guard" any longer. The sabre threat has been dealt with, it's time for us to part ways.

(Wolf #2): Rapier is promising us rank, but also a united pack - one without you haughty beasts skulking about and giving orders.

(Wolf #2): And a word of advice for you - It's not wise to leave your throat so exposed...

(Wolf #2): NOW FIGHT ME, SWIFTKILL!!!

(Young Swiftkill): Rapier...

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(Young Swiftkill): ...Where?

(Rapier): eheh heh...

(Young Swiftkill): ...Rapier!

(Young Swiftkill): Get out! You aren't authorized to be in here.

(Rapier): And why aren't I? They're my kin, after all...

(Imek): Rrrrrr... Let us go!

(Young Swiftkill): Away from them... now!

(Rapier): I won't hurt them...

(Rapier): ...Much.

(Young Swiftkill): Agh!

(Young Swiftkill): ..! Run, Imek!

(Little Wolf #2): Yiiep!

(Rapier): Which one are you going to save, Swiftkill?

(Little Wolf #2): Yiiep yiiep!

...And it was then that I first succumbed to the inherent flaw that plagues the Blackblood line...

...the Fury.

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My ears drummed deafeningly and my vision blurred.

My only focus was the enemy, as if we were the only two in the world.

But I couldn't simply end her life immediately. I was compelled to keep her alive...

to tear, rip, mangle whatever flesh my jaws closed upon...

...to make her suffer.

(Rapier): Wait... S-Swiftkill...

(Young Swiftkill): This conspiracy against the Alpha has just cost you your life, Rapier... ...don't waste your final breaths begging me to spare it.

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(Rapier): I wanted to thank you...

(Rapier): ...for doing my job for me, Swiftkill.

(Young Swiftkill): What..?

(Young Swiftkill): NO!!!

Blinded by my furry, I'd murdered the very innocents I sought to protect.

I curled around their mangled bodies as the exhaustion from my berserker rage overtook me at last. I was far too weak, too crushed to care about anything anymore...

...not even Rapier's escape.

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(Blaise): So... you let her go?

(Swiftkill): I had little choice, pup. We expend a great amount of energy while under the Fury's effects.

(Swiftkill):Exhaustion grips us after the Fury passes, and because it was my first experience turning, I hadn't built up the mental resolve to overcome it. It takes months of training to do such.

(Blaise): What did you do, then?

(Swiftkill): I surrendered to sleep.

Before long, I was awoken by teeth on my flank...

(Somebody): That's her! Drag her out!

(Alpha Whitewind): IMEK? AVIE??

...and the scream of a mother who's found her worst fears realized.

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(Wolf #4): We've got her, Sir Grayback, and she still has your pup.

(Alpha Greyback): So it's true...

(Alpha Whitewind): WHAT HAVE YOU DONE??!

(Young Swiftkill): No, I won't leave them!

(Wolf #5): Oh no...

(Wolf #6): The Captain...

(Rapier): See, it's like I told you, mother. She was envious of them! She wanted to ensure her future as the Alpha!

(Young Swiftkill): Let me go... i'll explain! Rapier -

(Alpha Whitewind): Swiftkill... You wretched monster... MURDEROUS BEAST!

(Rapier): ...and look what she did to me as I tried to defend my helpless brothers... My ears..!

(Alpha Greyback): Wolves, KILL HER NOW!

(Young Swiftkill): Wait, Greyback, listen -

(Young Swiftkill): I didn't - GRAH! Please, My Alphas, help me! It's not -

(Alpha Whitewind): ENOUGH!

(Alpha Whitewind): Get away, wolves. I will finish her myself!

(Wolf #7): Alpha, we can handle -

(Alpha Whitewind): DIE YOU DAMNED TRAITOR!

(Young Swiftkill): Whitewind, please -

GAK

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(Young Swiftkill): No! Bloodspill! Release her!

(Bloodspill): "Alpha" or not...

(Bloodspill): If another fang touches my sister, I'll soak the earth with your guts.

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(Alpha Greyback): Get away from the Alpha, traitor, or we will probably remove you.

(Wolf #8): Well, you heard Greyback...

(Wolf #9): This is crazy, Bloodspill's never lost a fight. We'd be crushed.

(Wolf #A): But Someone needs to do something...

(Wolf #B): Okay, then you first!

(Alpha Greyback): You, Elite Guards! Handle that beast of yours!

(Wolf #C): No, wait. Why hasn't our Captain been given the chance to explain herself?

(Wolf #D): Yes, Swift should be allowed to speak her side.

(Wolf #E): Agreed...

(Wolf #F): The Guard has protected this pack since its conception, and never has it threatened its regency.

(Wolf #10): Написано очень мелким шрифтом, из-за этого буквы неразборчивы и заметно только: "... we're ... loyal"

(Wolf #11): Release the Captain!

(Alpha Whitewind): All of you...

(Alpha Whitewind): ...Guard...leave my lands.. ...now...

(Alpha Whitewind): ...every last one of you black-blooded traitors...

(Alpha Whitewind): BE GONE!

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Перед Возрастом Человека, когда копье, подведенное против когтя и Земли было в доминионе дикого, животные, разделил землю, как они считали целесообразным. На Восток, поживающий войной клан, известный как Stoneclaw; на Запад, peacable direwolves Inaria. Несколько лет безопасности в пределах ветвей защиты Инарии уехали однажды бдительные невнимательные волки. Это было тогда, когда охрана истощилась к почти ничему, что сабли пошли в их наступление.

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(Бета Blackear): Алфа Греибак, сабли прорвались через Сухую Речную Охрану. Оттуда, они могли легко сокрушить защиты Логова!

(Алфа Греибак): Тогда мы дадим им корпус-lickers борьба, чтобы помнить.

(Алфа Греибак): Боритесь! Боритесь! Для чести Инарии!

(Алфа Греибак): ...!

(Волк *1): Убежавший!

(Волк *2): Альфа упала! Отступите! Отступите!

(Бета Blackear): Трусы! Если мы не будем держать наше основание, то наша молодёжь будет убитой!

(Бета Blackear): Главная мудрость! Пребывание и борьба!

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(Kita):... Но почему я должен сказать ей?

(Волк *1): Вы были Бетой секунда Блакера, таким образом Вы принимаете его обязанности в случае его смерти.

(Kita): Да, но -

(Алфа Витьюинд): не беспокойтесь. Я уже знаю.

(Kita): Альфа, я сожалею.

(Алфа Витьюинд): не пожалейте мою потерю, когда столь многие другие пакета также спят один сегодня вечером. Я огорчу, когда эта война закончена.

(Kita): леди Витьюинд, в дополнение к смерти Лорда Грэйбака, новое нападение уменьшило счет нашей силы до меньше чем половины.

(Алфа Витьюинд): я боялся так...

(Kita): Да ... и я боимся ..., что по этой норме, Inaria упадет перед первым снегом. Если я могу быть откровенным... Я думаю, что лучшее, если мы начинаем считать сдачу реальной возможностью и -

(Алфа Витьюинд): Номер, с которым Мы будем бороться за то, что является нашим, Kita. Но мы будем должны помочь...

(Алфа Витьюинд): Я надеюсь, что я никогда не должен был бы обращаться к этому... Kita, пошлите нашим fstest бойскаутам с заказами путешествовать по пяти дням вне нашей границы southermost.

(Алфа Витьюинд): Они должны искать и восстанавливать Волков Черной Крови.

Ещеб кто нормально перевел...