Azure

[First Alpha of Hiraeth Spirits]

Named for her deep blue eyes. Her and her mate Cain founded the Hiraeth Spirits pack many years ago. They built their small pack from the ground up, surviving through both a distemper and an influenza pandemic with the help of their skilled herbalist. Unfortunately, things kept getting worse. A severe food shortage caused the pack to move around constantly in search of a consistent food supply, causing them to forget where they had even originated. Most of their pack left. Eventually they settled down in the mountains, in a temple in disrepair, and sent what was left of their hunters out to the grassland to the east to hunt.
At this point Azure and Cain were more than halfway through their lives. They were worried about producing an heir; not a single pup they'd had so far had survived. Now they had a somewhat consistent supply of food, and had grown their pack once more, they decided to adopt a pup. A tiny Spectre joined the pack, a confident young pup with blazing white eyes. Azure thought she wouldn't be able to have any other children, so she raised Spectre to be the pack's next alpha.
It was soon after that when she noticed something strange. Unusual purple stripes were beginning to show through her dark fur. She spoke to the neighbouring pack's elders, and they told her what it meant; that she was truly a good leader for her pack. Three years later she had another litter with Cain, with one surviving pup they named Sapphire. Luckily Azure passed after Sapphire had weaned, but she didn't last long after that, leaving Sapphire to the pupsitters and Spectre to rule.