“I was the useless Omega of the pack, the ultimate disgrace of our family. My mother, the pack's Chief Healer, treated my sister Ivy like a precious jewel, but threw me into the Sunless Forest to rot. I died in that freezing mud, but during a continent-wide Tribunal, a captured Rogue revealed the horrific truth of my death. Ivy didn't just want me exiled; she wanted me to suffer. She paid the Rogue to watch as she beat me with a silver whip, then she drugged our mother with a heavy dose of Dreamweed. Under the drug's mind-control, Ivy pointed at my bleeding body and told our mother I was an infected beast. My own mother, a master of anatomy, used her silver surgical knife to chop me into pieces while I was still breathing. As a spirit, I watched my mother angrily dig up my grave, desperate to prove I was faking my death to ruin them. But when they pulled my skull from the dirt, a blinding magic revealed the ultimate irony. I was never a useless Omega. I was a legendary White Wolf, the most sacred bloodline in existence. My mother had personally butchered the very miracle she obsessed over. Watching her go completely insane from the horrific guilt, and seeing my sister dragged to the agonizing Silver Abyss, I felt absolutely nothing. "I reject you as my mother, and I reject this bloodline." I turned my back on their screams, stepped into the Moon Goddess's light, and opened my eyes as a newborn in a family that actually loved me.”