Dawn

Alp encountered Dawn while he was out hunting by himself because of Shale's unexpected pregnancy. She offered to join the hunt with him, and Alp thought she would be of use to the pack. As such, Polar welcomed her. Alp gets along easily with Dawn, but his mate Shale isn't so agreeable. She's suspicious about Dawn, really, that she's trying to take Alp away from her. But Alp insists that Dawn only wants to help the Shards and their hunt.

However, despite Dawn's good intentions, she proves to be difficult for Alp to work with, as she insists on taking the lead, even when she's inexperienced. Things are only heating up, as Shale has weaned her puppies and has returned from the hunt, and her opinions on Dawn have not changed.

After becoming envious of Shale and Alp's relationship and family, Dawn secretly offered herself to a stud. This is against Rime's code, as it is forbidden to breed with outsiders. It was discovered she had given birth inside the nursery, and a trial was held against her. Shale was the one who concluded that she'd bred with a stud, and Dawn was questioned. When she confirmed this, Polar determined she could not be allowed to have a pupsitter watch her pups. Their survival will depend solely on Dawn, and the mercy of Nature. Regardless, Dawn would arrogantly insist she didn't need a sitter.

As her pups, Bone and Soil, would receive inadequate from both their mother and the pack, they would run away to join North and his gang in the Tundra. Dawn doesn't care about them leaving, however, as she saw them as a burden. With Polar's decision to move Rime Pack to the Tundra in order to find her son, Dawn is the most vocal against it, and would rather stay in the mountains. She does, however, end up accompanying the pack.

The pack would eventually make it into the tundra, and Dawn would see her children once more. However, she was angry with them, berating them for abandoning the pack, when in reality, she knew they had chosen leave her behind. Because of this, Soil would make the choice to leave for good, joining a pack where she'd receive the love and attention Dawn never gave to her. Bone, meanwhile, would remain with Rime pack, although he would distance himself from his mother and find kinship with his fellow hunters. However, even as he would avoid conversing with her, Bone would unfortunately have to keep hunting with his mother, as well.

Surely enough, tensions would soon arise again between Dawn and her son Bone, after an incident that would occur while the Shards were out hunting. For a while, the Shards have struggling to make catch, and in their latest slip up, Dawn decided to pin the blame on Bone for their lack of success. Fully fed up with his mother, Bone would call Dawn out on everything she had done, saying that Soil's decision to leave the pack was her fault. But rather than listen to his criticism, Dawn would try to attack her son physically, only for Clay to intervene. Clay would end up gravely injured by Dawn, while Bone would be left with a permanent scar on his rear by his own mother.

Right now, Polar is deciding whether to remove the troublesome she-wolf from the pack. However, this decision will prove difficult, as the Shards' team relies on Dawn to finish off their prey. Ultimately, it was decided that Dawn will retire early from being a hunter as punishment.

As she's gotten to the age where she would have retired normally, and has had to deal with living with Shale in the Elder's Den, missing out on regular wolf life has since frustrated Dawn. Having long since taken notice from observing her attitude, Smoke has told Dawn about the things he has learned from interacting with the Lunar objects he steals from the Herbalist's Den. Rather than call him out for this, fury turns to rebelliousness as Dawn begins to take interest in Smoke's words. However, she would only turn him down because of her age, as she thought it wouldn't be possible for them to carry out their plan before the end of Dawn's life. Still, she would propose that Smoke change the law in Rime, so that there would be no law restricting wolf was allowed to do. Of course, then, Smoke would end up factoring her idea in his scheme.

Before Rime would depart for the glacier, Dawn would constantly complain about how the migration would be futile, and accuse Polar of neglecting the pack to focus on this. On the day of departure, Dawn would refuse to go with the rest of the pack, calling them fools for leaving the tundra for such an ice cold region. She would even go as far as to say that whatever Smoke had planned, Rime deserved what was coming for it. But as she was standing in the cave shouting at her packmates and slandering Polar, the earth would begin to shake. Suddenly, the walls and roof of the dens would collapse over Dawn, crushing her. In the wake of this incident, all the wolves of Rime could assume was that this had to be a sign from Sleeplanders, that Rime had no choice but to abandon their now ruined home, and Dawn had been punished for her noncompliance. But would the Sleeplanders really do such a thing to pass on judgement? And did they really have the power to do so?

At least now, Bone will no longer have to deal with her callousness.

Dawn is survived by her son Bone, who remains with Rime, and her daughter Sunset (formerly known as Soil), who belongs to another pack. She is also survived in Rime pack by her three grandchildren, Cherry, Sunrise, and Honey. She does not reside with the Sleeplanders.