After the height of winter, it would only be tragedy from close to home that would unseat their protective grip: a bear encounter against the mountain wolves cost them several key faces of the family, Osiris among them. Due to ranging elsewhere, Antares was too late to the fight. He later helped his mother kill the bear, but the damage had been done. Then, not long after, Atlas went missing, and full of grief and guilt, Antares suddenly inherited the helm of the Fireflies.

They supported him for a time, made it work surprisingly well. He grew very fond of the heart of the pack, and naturally more disaster came before the winter was up: a meteor struck Moonspear, and with it, most of his remaining family. Antares, frantic, searched and found no survivors.
-needed found himself, shell-shocked and grieving anew.
-Glen dissolves into his surviving aunt's new establishment
-Antares ranges, or.. flees? Travels with Vallkyrie Archer.
-awakens in strange lands, Izumi finds him and brings him back to Shiroshika.
-becomes samurai, misplaces the prince he was to guard.
-exile + tiger problems in the tundra begin to set up.
-mercy kills a starved, frozen young wolf he finds.
-wanders across the plains in the winter when large herds are stampeding, and finds the forest queen in the south.
-Shiroshika rallies with Vanderfell Woods against the tiger and his companion; blizzards thwart the attempt, lives are lost on their side.
-Izumi leaves the pack. Shiroshika relocates, and gains a new emperor.
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