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a wolf and animal rpg (role-playing game)

Canis is a writing community for play-by-post (forum-based), freeform roleplay set in a fictional dream world in the intrusion fantasy genre. Most characters on Canis are wolves; many play elements are focused around wolves and canids, but the world makes room for a large variety of other animal characters such as dogs, horses, cats, bears, deer, and many, many more.

Our community is focused on flexibility, creativity, and collaboration. That boils down to a few important features:

  • There is no set activity requirement to write
  • The setting and plot are member-created and staff-supported
  • The game is continuously improved to increase fun and decrease stress

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#1
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04-26-2021, 02:22 AM
Today, was an outing day. Orlaith had been guarding the home for quite some time, and with the claim continuing on.. Except for their hunting grounds, which was another issue - it was relatively peaceful. Apparently so with neighbors that she was unaware of for quite some time, but they weren't troublesome. Some part of her remembered if there was groups in the past that caused an issue, yet none really came to mind. All she truly could remember were the other species causing troubles, such as the bears. She almost thought this was the afterlife, but felt more alive then ever.

So down the mountain did she go, tip-tapping her away around - not too far though, but beyond their borders.

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#2
05-06-2021, 03:52 AM
It hadn't been long since the group moved up north towards the mountains -- and this time, they arrived back with one of the missing children. She couldn't fathom why though, after being the same spot they departed from in the beginning. Still, Izu already learned her lesson before about questioning the young mother's intuition, so it was best to trust her on this one. But since she was already thinking this far back, the crane couldn't help but remember the initial reason she had set off in the first place.

Feeling rather parched, Izu stopped at the base of a mountain and dipped her crown to lap up a water puddle nearby. Now that she'd thought about it, the fae had been too distracted with everything else to focus on finding her own packmates, which was foolish on her part since they'd been in the plains a while ago. Where had they all gone?


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#3
05-19-2021, 07:42 PM
There weren't too many that Orlaith did not recognize, as the number within Vanderfell was as many as there was on a paw. When she saw an unfamiliar white pelt, the immediate conclusion would be Qucksilver, yet the black they carry, and the unfamiliar.. Yet familiar. She couldn't really put thought on it but there was something that was vaguely tugging at the back of the warriors mind - though, in the end as much as she thought of it, she didn't know who that was.

"Hey! You a native?" With being outside the territory, the normal aggression that the fireclad woman held was rather at bay, but she carried a proudness in her pace, and a high head while approaching the silky wolf.

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#4
06-19-2021, 12:02 AM
It all seemed to happen too fast for her to prepare.

The moment a loud, booming voice rang her eardrums, a stream of water traveled too fast between her lips and ended up being snorted through her nose as she lifted her crown -- embarrassing. Next, her ink-dipped legs faltered clumsily back, as did her ears. Widened lavenders shot upwards to see who had been the culprit, only to fall onto a large, fire-clad woman that approached with purpose and authority. A fire-clad woman....she actually recognized -- and soon enough the initial fight or flight response she had simmered down a level or two "Or.....laith?" only to rise back up once more. Right, the crane didn't have the fondest feelings of Orlaith, if she remembered correctly in her time at Kasteloki.

Still, the sight of a Kaisteloki pack member here of all places gave her back the hope that plummeted over time. So with a more confident (and nervous) stance to wait for them, the princess sought to hope her assumption was correct.

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#5
06-25-2021, 07:20 PM
Something like the unknown is always a mystery, some embrace it, but most fear what they don't know, "How do you know my name?" and she was a prime example. To someone that Orlaith doesn't know utter her name and look at her with eyes like those, it gave a fear, that she did not know. For how could the other know her, but she doesn't know back? Memories that were fading from an unknown source, and no longer could the fireclad woman even remember many, just figures fading, names no more, the group that she protected could not be brought up but a caravan of loners..

She was aggressive. Her stance one of attack as she looked at the persian woman and snarled.

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#6
07-01-2021, 03:48 AM

Unfortunately for Izumi, there was no sign of recognition in the other woman's eyes when looking at her. Only clear alarm in the forested depths that stared her down -- in which she'd noticed and would've opened her mouth to explain further, only to close it and coil back in fear as the fire-clad woman looked about ready to tear the crane a new canal.

Her breath faltered.

And now, she was feeling not so relieved about seeing a Kaistleoki member anymore.

"I....I'm....." Izu had already felt uncomfortable around Orlaith in the past, and this situation did not help in the slightest. She could do nothing more than studder incoherently while keeping the angered woman in her sights and slowly walking backwards...

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#7
07-01-2021, 04:10 PM
"What? Speak clearly." A barking of an order as she snapped her her jaws toward the other - not in the sense to start a fight, but like a warning. To speak or to be bitten at. The woman held somesort of familiarity, but Orlaith only assumed perhaps a passing by loner from a distant memory. Though for fireclad woman? She couldn't imagine too many people to 'mistake' her as someone else, in fact it felt like an offense if someone did. She thought her presence was an original, a sovereign in fire and blood, an angry bound woman.

"Speak!" She stepped closer.

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#8
07-21-2021, 07:34 PM
This was becoming tense, and frustrating all at once.

Izumi understood that the fire clad couldn’t remember her, but the grating manner in which she talked reminded her too much of their first meeting. Orlaith was starting to make the crane uncomfortable and like the cornered animal she was, instinct pushed Izu to snap at the girl’s face defensively -- but she was smart enough to know she wouldn’t win a fight with someone once dubbed the “knight commander”, not a chance in hell. And besides, “I am Izumi Fujiwara, we’ve met before -- if you’ll hear me out to explain it to you, that is.”, starting a fight was not what the princess wished to instill. Izumi wanted answers -- and she was not going to find any cowering and mumbling in fear.

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#9
07-27-2021, 07:22 PM
"Alright, explain." Though Orlaith didn't drop her rather aggressive attitude, feeling skeptical of this Izumi who claimed to know her. Her brow was raised in question as her tail flickered in an annoyance, but she wasn't in a complete attack-mode, more of a 'you pissing me off,' mood at the moment. There was always something familiar about, well.. Everyone. Her memories were so lost she couldn't even know the faces of her parents, much less friends or siblings. So the warrior couldn't deny there was some curiosity.

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#10
08-10-2021, 01:10 AM
A relieved sigh left her then, to know that the warrior woman was not completely disinclined to listen. Realizing this, Izu shook out her fur and stood up straight to make herself more comfortable than she was during their small confrontation. Opening her mouth once......closing it back to let her gaze linger on Orlaith again, just once, out of a small sliver of fear she had from their impatience,

then opened it again to speak.

"I remember you...you were once Knight Commander of a pack named Kaistleoki--" The siamese proclaimed, daring to take a step forward once she gained confidence in her words. There was no way she was mistaken on who this was. No way! "--to be led by Constable Hieronymous, and Count Ira. Am I not correct?"

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#11
08-12-2021, 07:19 PM
She held a paw, like requesting the other to stop for a moment while intaking this information. She thought with a hum, and a deep inhale. Processing this information that while sounded familiar, none of it truly came to mind. Like there was an unbreakable barrier to what memories could be, edging closer to come forward, but never truly got there. Thus, Orlaith only shook her head to Izumi, a dubious gaze at the other. 

"I am with Hiero and Ira, but none of that has happened." The name, the rank.. As much pleasantry as it sounded, it seemed all. Fake.

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#12
08-25-2021, 01:18 AM
Exit!

 Izumi was interrupted for a moment, with a paw raised towards her face to tell her to stop -- understandable. It was clear that the fire branded woman had lost her memory somewhere down the road and while the crane was adamant on making her remember, she was patient enough to understand that much. So she'd step away some, and look towards Orlaith as the air of silence grew in her absorption.

 The came the state of shock that followed her now rounded lilac depths -- Heiro and Ira were with her too, altogether, and that was all she needed to know before interrupting the warrior herself. "But it did-!" left her almost desperate-sounding voice, but for once the princess did not care how she sounded -- she knew she was despite to find out what had happened to the remainders of her last pack, who wouldn't be in this situation!? Yet in the realization that they might've lacked as much memory as Orlaith did, it was probably not the right move to visit them right now.

 Izumi sighed.

 "I am telling the truth, but... it is best if I visit you, all of you, another time. Until then, Orlaith..." the princess said, then off and away she was. No use in sitting around and trying to explain today -- maybe she just needed time...

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#13
08-30-2021, 08:03 PM
Orlaith watched her go, not stopping the woman. She seemed confident in her knowledge of who the fireclad woman was, yet none of her memories seemed to align. She couldn't remember a good portion of her life, in fact, majority of all of it was lost, and the only recognition she held was with Ira. Some part of her said she knew Hiero, but couldn't place a memory and face together. There was others, like Izumi, that felt familiar, her body saying she knew, but her mind saying logic is not there, and the memory of them wasn't.

Maybe the other was right ; but there was no proof. She shook her head, and walked back to the mountain.

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