Tamlin - certainly <3 I think your idea for him is a pretty good one and I would love to have a thread between him and Icarus later down the line where Icarus is all, "You've become just like my father!" or something along those lines lol. Let me know if you need any help coming up with a name for him or just more information on the land he and Icarus are originally from :>

Tamlin OH BOY ARE YOU READY

Okay so they're from an island nation called Somer - originally it was home to numerous packs and it had the landmass to support them all in harmony. Well, Icarus' father Rubedo (skipping thru all his backstory b/c it isn't something Icarus / boyo would know) set out to conquer the entire island, believing that having all the wolves worship him would allow him to regain his (supposedly) fallen godhood.

He began with a pack in the north, saying he was striking against Winterfang, his former godself's brother, and recruited loners, schemers, wanderers - and even took in orphaned pups, raising them on his doctrine that he was a former god and that he deserved to be worshipped. This makes him sound like a huge tyrant, but he was incredibly charismatic and knew how to offer followers things they'd want. During this time he met Dionysus, Icarus' other dad, and Dionysus sort of became the brawn to back up Rubedo's brains.

They were the ultimate power couple and started conquering packs near their own, slowly amassing an army of prisoners, believers, and those that had decided they were the winning side. This continued for a number of years until the final holdout was the pack of a much smaller island off the coast of Somer. If you'd like to go the shackled royal route with your boy, this would be the pack to do it with. They were closely connected to the gods and believed pups born with heterochromia to be marked with blessings. This was primarily a tropical island and they supplemented their hunting with fishing.

Regardless, they couldn't withstand the assault of Rubedo's army and were overthrown and kept as prisoners of war. Around this time, Icarus and his brother Cerberus were born. For a year or so, there was peace as the children grew and Rubedo rearranged his newly-founded kingdom.

He understand that revolt would be a constant threat until several generations of descendants had ruled, so he allowed many to return to a loosely-connected multiple pack structure, where the leaders of these packs were followers of his he knew would not betray him. Furthermore, he turned his eye toward the mainland and had his spies move among the wolves, whispering of the wealth the mainland had, spinning tales of how long ago they had been cast off the mainland and segregated onto the island nation of Somer.

This is where things get sorta hand-wavey, as this is around the time Imperia Delacroix is born and her father (who rules a kingdom upon the mainland) comes into conflict with Rubedo. They continue to fight for several years (like two) during which time Rubedo sends several invasions against the mainland, testing their strength, before finally having Imperia's father assassinated - shortly before she comes to Vox Deus.

Icarus follows not long after, and your boyo could come in, say, shortly after Rubedo has announced the mainlander king's death to the citizens of Somer?

(I hope this is what you meant lmao)

Tamlin - eyyyy lemme know if you need any images edited for him or anything. can't wait to see him <3

Tamlin - LOL YOU CAN DO IT WYRD <3