Milestones

• • • Be born

• • • Discover one of the major faction's borders

    • Meet someone outside your own faction

    • Howl and receive an answer

    • Protect someone from a large, deadly animal (bear, megaloceros, etc)

• • • See the ocean for the first time

    • See the northern lights, cave glow worms, or foxfire mushrooms

    • Cross a mountain range

    • Ford a river or swim to an island

    • Find a new cave or burrow

    • Find the body or bones of a dead wolf

    • Find a beached whale

    • Get lost in an unfamiliar place

• • • Take part in a salmon run

    • Bring down a large prey alone (elk, boar, bison, etc)

    • Defend your meal from another predator, or take a meal from one

• • • Join a pack

• • • Court a potential mate

    • Take a mate (anything from marriage to a one night stand)

    • Dig out or claim a den

    • Bring food to a pregnant/nursing wolf, or receive food as one

    • Meet your own offspring for the first time

    • Pupsit

    • Teach a child or younger sibling a basic lesson

    • Attempt to mentor an overconfident apprentice, or be the overconfident apprentice!

• • • Win a fight with a wolf

    • Lose a fight with a wolf

    • Get stung (snake, insect, cactus, jellyfish, freak lightning bolt)

    • Have a wound get infected

    • Acquire a scar

    • Survive a seasonal storm (blizzard, flood, fire, etc)

• Discover your favorite (or least favorite) food.

Aniwaya

Any Packmate

• • • Speak during an assembly

    • Offer a thoughtful gift to someone

    • Participate in a war dance before a hunt

Singer

• • • Attempt to soothe an unhappy spirit

    • Petition the spirits to help heal a sick or injured packmate

    • Help a packmate adopt a mother-spirit into their family

Stone Wolves

• • • Fend off a Nokoni attack

    • Catch an adult sturgeon

    • Assemble or modify your battle-garb

Wind Wolves

• • • Bring news of Nokoni raiders to the pack

    • Scout the movements of a herd or flock

    • Craft with ravens, or show off your creation(s)

Younglings

• • • Be presented to the pack by your parent(s)

    • Play with raven fledglings

    • Choose your role as a stone, wind, or shaman’s student

Strangers

• • • Learn a trade skill from one of Singers, Stone, or Wind Wolves

    • Depict your stranger meeting with the Doe Chief about their place in the pack

Aryn

Any Packmate 

• • • Participate in a pack hunt

    • Partake in a religious celebration (Full Moon Festival, Days of Atonement, etc)

    • Cleanse one's self of ritual impurity

    • Complete a pilgrimage

Vicar

• • • Tend a packmate's wounds with herbs

    • Offer spiritual or emotional healing to a packmate

    • Recite a fable from Aryn's oral history

Warden

• • • Train a wolf of another role in self-defense

    • Patrol the border with another Warden or Courser

    • Corner a trespasser using Aryn's rocky terrain

Courser

• • • Catch fast-moving prey like quail or rabbit

    • Clean and/or decorate the main den

    • Steal eggs from nesting Golden Eagles in the cliffs of High Country

Ranger

• • • Map out the maze of caves, hollows, gulches, and valleys in Aryn

    • Investigate other packs, either as a spy or a guest

    • Bring an outsider to the pack for consideration to join

Fledgelings

• • • Listen to a story from the Vicars or Coursers

    • Meet your mentor for the first time

    • Avoid being seen, or survive an attack by, a hunting eagle

Nokoni

Any Packmate 

• • • Assert your right to eat at a kill

    • Make it to the next watering hole

    • Visit the saltwastes

    • Keep up with the pack while traveling between camps

Raiders

• • • Explore or raid beyond the territory

    • Kill or capture a trespasser

    • Negotiate a dowry for a Guardian mate

Guardians

• • • Protect a cub from a predator

    • Ditch, foist, or mislead a cub to find some personal space

    • Provide offspring for a Raider

Cubs

• • • Win a fight against another cub

    • Learn to hunt from a Guardian

    • Have a run-in with an unhappy snake, gila monster, or scorpion

Slaves

• • • Get captured and/or adjust to life as a prisoner

    • Prove your usefulness as a slave

    • Attempt to disobey or inconvenience a Nokoni, covertly

Sophros

Any Packmate 

• • • Join a game of Snatch

    • Attend a religious ceremony

    • Dive in the kelp forest

    • Enjoy a unique seasonal feast (herring spawn, seal pupping, caribou migration, goose nesting)

    • Chase off or kill an impure outsider at the border

Anemon

• • • Tend a wounded packmate

    • Assign or oversee an act of penance from a packmate

    • Find a sign from the gods on the beach or out at sea

Whalers

• • • Track down a herd on the taiga or tundra

    • Train with a fellow Whaler

    • Hunt with the orcas, pinning prey between you on the beach

Otten

• • • Use or collect gifts from the sea to craft with

    • Harvest eggs, small game, berries, or take meat from Whaler kills for the larder

    • Adorn a sacrifice or deceased wolf with decorative offerings

Cubs

• • • Pass inspection by the Rime-Wind, assuring your purity

    • Listen to an Anemon tell a fable during story time

    • See the orcas for the first time