Dawnmane and her siblings were born under a new moon, a dark omen in her birthpack. Originally given the name Ciara, though she shed that name after her exile. For a season after her siblings and hers birth, things were fine, but as their training started, things changed.
The growths started to come in. First the boar tusk's, then others followed. By the time she was ten months old. Neither she or her siblings were recognized as the wolves their mother had birthed.
In a fit of desperation, her birthpack killed her mother Nightstalk, and attempted to do the same with the siblings. Ciara has no idea if her siblings survived or not. She ran for days until she collapsed, and awoke to the wolf that would become her beta in the months to come.