Kappiataitok

The Story

• Kappiataitok (Inuit: Brave) was born to the tundra lands of the Alaskan North Slope Borough. The shores of the Chukchi Sea were his playground, The Gray Wolves of the melting pools were his friends. His people traveled throughout the white capped peaks and deep crystal blue lakes of the Brooks Range. His father, Salaksartok (Inuit: Victorious), was the Shaman of their people. His mother, Quvianuq (Inuit: Joy), assisted his father with births. It was a happy time in those early days, with his family and his people. However happiness doesn't always last.
  
  In his late teens, there was an accident. One night, hunting reindeer. He wasn't entirely sure what happened. Ice cracked, ground gave away, and he fell. Tumbling into darkness, the other young men ran to find help, too afraid to go down into the dark watery caverns of the mountains on their own. Wet and freezing... Tai couldn't find a way out on his own. His arm was broken, ribs were bruised, head was bleeding heavily, and he couldn't feel anything from the waist down. He laid there, starring up at the dimming sky from his dark cell in the earth, but oddly felt no fear. In the distance, he could hear the howl of wolves, and somehow he was alright if that night was to be his last.
  
  However, in the damp darkness of the caves, something found him. He thought he imagined the scuffling at first. Soft paws and sharp nails on hard stones... but then he felt the warm breath on his face. He had heard it before he saw it. The beast... larger than any great animal he had ever seen before, had come right up to him. Nose to nose they were. Hurting, alone, and close to death... it was then that Tai looked up and fell into the large dark pools of the Ancient Amarok's wise old eyes... and disappeared.
  
  Born again through water and ice, Tai found himself leaping from the earth on powerful new limbs. Covered in thick black fur, he tread the rocky pass on great paws, and ate with jaws that could carry an entire reindeer with their strength... he was new and wild. He raced through the mountains, plunged into deep pools, lost himself in the glory of his new power. However, as he settled... he began to remember his human life and all his loved ones. His heart was torn in two, because he knew he could not return to them as he was. The Amarok were not meant to be with humans. They live until they give up their existence. They are not like werewolves... they do not hunt in packs... and the moon holds no sway over their might.
  
  He could not stay away though and even with the new knowledge he had somehow gained, telling him he should not return... he had to. So, under the cover of night, he stole into his people's settlement. Large as he was though, he could not help drawing attention, knocking things over, treading on stuff left out. He did not bare his teeth nor make a sound, but in the light of the fires of his people... he was Amarok... one of a few Great Wolves, and they were in fear of him. He feared that they would try to harm him, until his mother appeared. Until that point, everyone had stood silent. This great big wolf had come into their midst... but did not attack. It did nothing. He looked upon his mother with so much grief, for even she looked afraid of him. Finally, heartbroken, he laid his great head at her feet and gave a mournful whine. Somehow, through the fur, she saw her son beneath the beast... and when she touched reached out to touch his pelt, he found the knowledge to return to his human form.
  
  Sadly, life was never the same afterwards. His people still loved him, but they could not help their fear. The Amaroks of their legends were not domestic beasts, but wild, untamed, and dangerous. It did not help that Tai seemed to have stopped aging the night the Amarok took him. Eventually, he had to leave. He had watched his generation die out, and knew he would only watch the next do the same. His heart could not bare the thought of it. During the deep winter... he passed over the sea ice and braved the treacherous arctic waters between Alaska and Russia. He lived easily there for a time, the Siberian wilderness was vast and hunters were few. Eventually though, even that came to an end. A hunter finally came who would not give him rest. He tracked Tai through the bitterest of wilderness with no signs of stopping. Finally, Tai gave him what he wanted. In the frosted air, Tai waited for the man to come... but this was no man he had ever seen or smelled before. No Russian either, he brought him smoked meats and spoke the old language of his people to him. He knew of the Amarok legends and hinted he knew the great beasts secrets. His name was Samil, and he was no man, but a Daeva. He had come looking for Tai out of curiosity. He was a seeker of legends, and when he heard of a great wolf, like none that had been seen since Ancient Times... well, he had come to see for himself what this beast truly was.
  
  Tai was not easy to win over... but somehow, Samil befriended him despite himself. They formed a strange friendship and over time, living out in the wild, Tai learned much about Samil and what he was. He learned that there were others out there who were special like him, though not entirely like him, and he did not have to be alone. When he finally set out with Samil to meet these new people, he knew that his life would not be a happy one if he remained alone forever. So he decided that he would approach all things with an open mind and an open heart.
  
  He has much to learn, and is learning quite quickly. He's even made more friends, though some of them call him 'Puppy' because he is so young... which struck him as odd since he is in his 80s. Then he realized these other males were thousands of years older than him... and he stopped arguing. Another of his new friends is a vampire, almost exactly his age, named Dunn. Though, sometimes it's a little difficult to understand the things he says. He's still trying to figure out what a 'Epic Daylight Guardian' is. Dunn just keeps telling him he has to watch a movie to figure it out.
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  The Amarok is roughly: 6.5 - 7 foot tall, 1,600 lbs, Bite 2,500 PSI

• Connections

  Friends

  	Damianus (played anonymously)

  	Aeronicius (played anonymously)

  	Dunn Kelaney (played anonymously)

  	Samil (played anonymously)

  	Ilona Ciprian (played anonymously)

  	Kamramira (played anonymously)

  	Maalik-Majid (played anonymously)

  	Mauricius (played anonymously)

  	Rukichi (played anonymously)

  	Szasha (played anonymously)

  Acquaintances

  	Dr Evelyn Via-Cabrera (played anonymously)

  	Izabet (played anonymously)

  	Moira Emer (played anonymously)