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After the deaths of his mother and sister, Two-Spear began an escalating feud with the nearby humans. When they were caught in open battle in the foothills near the dens, Skyfire and her hunters provided cover with their bows and Mountain Tamer sealed the pass behind them.  However, nobody was happy about any of this.  Although they were now in the cold north, among humans they had never met, Two-Spear provoked the humans wherever they went.  At last, Two-Spear and his close followers were left to his 'mountain stronghold', and Skyfire took the tribe back across the pass now known as the Shield of Arrows.  Her reign began.  Two-Spear's group did not survive long after; 'his' daughter No-Name was an adolescent when he challenged her and left her for dead in the mountain caverns, and whatever happened to him after, only a few children made it across the mountains to join the herd-following elves of the plains.

Skyfire avoided the foothills where so much had gone wrong, and kept to the woodlands, but eventually, the tribe hunted their way down into the plains.  There the Wolfriders met their long-ago brethren, and the rescued remnants of their own tribe.  Even Zarhan, who ran mad at Rahnee's death, had found a home there for a time, and the plains group was led by his daughter Anaya Blackfire.  Cultural misunderstandings and Recognitions both blossomed hilariously.  The tribes did not quite merge, but several members chose to live with the other tribe, temporarily or permanently.
Over the years, Skyfire even chose to adopt her chief-heir from among the Plains elves.  When she felt that Freefoot was ready to take over the tribe (and that the tribe was ready for Freefoot!) she joined the Plains wanderers.  While there she did thwart a mis-aimed coup, and lead the Plains elves across the mountains to the warming plains of the north, but she was absolutely not their chief.  Really.

Posted June 19, 2025, 07:14:13 AM
Skyfire, Anaya Blackfire, I made all this up