"A mighty wolf is more than strength, for we speak with our words and not our muscles. Come little pup, I will teach you how to lead like me."
Shifah is mighty, the founding mother of Ridge Bay. She is well known among the pack for her precise intuitions and spotting skills. Although she may be old now her ability to lead doesn't falter. She'll happily sit down any pup and teach them of the importance of teamwork, and how its what's allowed their ancestors to create pack life in the very beginning.
To explain how Shifah came to be the way she is, you'd have to start at the beginning. As Shifah is indeed the pack founder along with George her mate, she never always believed in teamwork. When Shifah was just a small adolescent she had left her pack in search for a place to call home, hoping to live as a loner for the rest of her days. But soon after she found George, a wildlife preserve wolf who was treated uncharacteristically by other wolves and even seen as a loner to them. They were both Rogues with a purpose, this led to Shifah breaking George free of his fence's that kept him caged in the sanctuary, allowing them to slowly and almost accidently create a pack bustling with life.