ARVEN, SUN-THIEF

God of warmth, song, family, and the sun. Stilled the seasons in the patron packs of both he and his sister Kaldai in order to protect his chosen from his sister's wrath.

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Kaldai, sister of Arven, had decided her little brother was far too soft. The root of it, she had determined, was his patron pack. Apricus was a poor influence on the godling, and its leader was most at fault. Thus Kaldai begun her game.

Now it was never out of malice toward the wolves who inhabited her brother's homeland, or even toward her brother for that matter. In all honesty, she was doing what was best for him, she told herself. With every member of the pack she tore into with her ice-capped fangs, her purpose grew: she needed to get her brother to do *something, anything* about it. Yet, he simply watched as she cast an unnatural winter upon the lands he called home. His protests were weak and without substance as the wolves of his pack began to fall one by one.

It wasn't until the one he loved most hung limply from his sister's frost-touched jaws that he was moved to action. Then, Arven finally snapped, banishing his sister from his deserts in the only way he knew: by cursing the lands of Apricus to eternal summer. His desert may never again get cold, and the frigid north of his sister may never again see another warm season.

In Kaldai's mind, she's fulfilled her purpose.

She is the ruthless guardian of her patron pack. Only the strong survive, and the members of her patron are constantly vying for her approval, and the approval of her vessel, who wields the ability to grant her gift.

• After the death of his first Suntouched Chosen, his beloved Arid, the deserts of Apricus have been cursed into an eternal summer and the pack has always had a Suntouched to lead them, chosen by the god himself


• Every wolf the Suntouched blesses as a member of Apricus gains a sort of resistance to the eternal heat, but no wolf has the same level of blessings as Arven's chosen/


• Unlike Kaldai's pack which views the eternal winter as both curse and test, Apricus treats their eternal summer as a blessing.


• Apricus tends to choose Suntouched almost frivolously, it seems quite random and there is no direct line of succession.