When the wolf queen was first conceived, the prophets were there to mark her birth. She was given the awakening stone and the early endowments of magic to behest her fate and future. It was told in the telling that the wolf queen, by Koriah's hand, would purge the world of the hunter mankind's forces against the anthro race, and their dark tributes. The wolf queen, the only child born of Draik, the Wind and Ruin, would carry the power necessary to free the tributes and end the shadow hunters' devastation of Hallow Fied across Nurest Fells. And so the Consanguiters gathered before her and wrought the blessing of the Soothsayer onto her breast. This mark that carried up her neck was a deadly serpent, and would allow the young queen to summon the serpent in her time and end the war.
But fate was not to be devised by mortals. When the queen took up the crown on the day of her coronation, a red fire tore across the sky and struck the castle Held Ruin. The towers crashed around them, lifting up the earth and the great hall, striking the queen and swallowing her in the earth's gaping maw.
And the war raged on another fifteen years, expanding all the way to the Far lands of the Hayshaer Coast. The shadow hunters consumed what land they took, amassing their army to an unstoppable legion of slave fighters and shadow hunters alike. It seemed Nurest Fells would fall under the hands of a darker power.
But the way of the world turned. Time slowed down, and the army marching to claim the city of Solunath abruptly stopped. A thread of sorcery pulled at the unifier, the convergence thread of fate. Kathryn, a mortal of mankind, wrote down on the Arcthurial Scripts a slow and formulating turn of events. She wrote the decay of the land east of Solunath, where the concentration of man's legions was thickest. A plague swept through the army and ravished the plains, and slowly, the number shadow hunters of the shadow lords legion began to fall, all taking sickness from the plague.
This plague was the Red Rite, and Solunath paid the price. Although the plague did not reach Solunath, it manifested a curse upon its King. He could not command his kingdom, for it took his eyes. He became the Blind King of Archethia, for in the book of fate, the Arcthurial Scripts, it was soon discovered that he would succumb to the pages of the script, falling into destinies hands, through his death by the Arcthurian Prince Koriah of the Page of the Wheel.
And in time, the plague took its toll, and eventually the Blind King fell as the Prince foretold, but not before the King and his Captain marshaled their army against the dwindling forces of the shadow hunters. The hunters fell, the purge of the anthro race ceased, and soon a sort of peace followed. No army took its turn to lash out, and all was still between the two races of man and anthro.
Unbeknownst to the world, and unwritten in the pages of the Archturial Scripts, the Soothsayer and wolf queen arose once more from the depths of the earth which was presumed to be her eternal tomb. She was enraged at the peace, and fought with the son of Solunath, of the Blind King, who had inherited the throne after the Blind King's passing. In single combat, a duel for the throne of Solunath, she challenged him.
Since there was no written events that foretold of the return of the wolf queen, and the mysterious disappearance of the Arcthurian Prince Koriah, there was nobody to interfere with the soothsayer's challenge. In combat, the Blind King's son fell to the serpent that she summoned from her breast, and with the serpent at her side she ruled over Solunath, guiding her influence over the armies of the anthro race and marched once more against mankind.
There was nobody in the Arcthurial Scripts, no mention of a hero to rise forth to combat the wolf queen and stop the war that was once more being carried forth at mankind's borders. The war of Hallow Fied was said to span the length of nearly a thousand pages in the Archturian book of Fate, but this new challenger came and changed the words written in the text. With the Archthurian Prince Koriah gone, there was no one to change the threads of fate woven into the world. Who would arise to stop the wolf queen and bring balance to the world?
It was Alnac who traveled to the depths of the Nureal Ruins of Archethia and sought the pages of the Arcthurial text. He would bring about the arrival of a new hero, one that would transcend death, train his way from shadow to striker, and destroy the serpent in the Soothsayer's lair at Held's Ruin. But he did not devise to do this in the pages. He would not pull at the unifier, the convergence thread of fate, as Kathyryn once did to bring the plague. No, Alnac took the book and hid it. Instead, he went to the hero and threaded the fate himself. Thus was the only time that the weave remained undisturbed. Only Alnac knew what the ancient scripts contained, but it seemed the hero's destiny was not up to fate. It was up to the hero to thread his way to triumph. The entirety of anthro and mankind lay in the hands of Alnac and this unknown hero. What would become of the world in this knew weave of destiny?