The Wolf's Den

Bay, she/they ☯ Author of A Revised History of Erdas Icon: Nopeita

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And then he saw the wolf.

Hello and welcome to my blog! You can call me Bay. I'm a 21-year-old black, sapphic writer living on the west coast of Canada.

You probably know me for my Spirit Animals fanaticism, and that is what the majority of this blog is dedicated to! My Spirit Animals project, which you've no doubt heard a lot about, is professionally discussed over at @a-revised-history-of-erdas. On this blog, I talk about A Revised History of Erdas in a more casual manner, sharing developments and ideas as they come. I also talk about Spirit Animals in general, and share things like other people's art, photography and personal stuff.

Outside of social media, I work full-time in healthcare. I'm also an adoptive mom to the cats I volunteer with at my local animal shelter. In my free time, you can find me writing, taking long walks in nature and jamming out to music, usually all at once. I'm a very easygoing person who loves to make friends, so don't hesitate to chat to me!

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This blog is protected by Petrichor the sea wolf. Art by Nopeita.

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no you don't understand i feel faint

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Anyway. Do you guys know what adopts are. I'm addicted to buying them. This is my latest one from servals whom I've named Abeke bcs she just feels like her.

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New profile picture :3

Drawn by the lovely Nopeita <3

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Canonically at the end of Path of the Heroes Kana is imprisoned on Greenhaven Island for ten years but mercifully released after that. Never seen by the Four again so what she gets up to is anyone's guess. Well now I'm imagining that she sails away and finds a remorseful Song and a healed Seaspray on a remote island, still alive after all those years. Sigh... I can't let my favourite lesbians go

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Thinking about Kana and Song again.

I feel like those two may be the closest we got to official queer rep in Spirit Animals. Am I wrong

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What if ferncloud was the creepy sibling?

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dad lore

I’ve nixed most of the murder in my warriors anthro au but Mapleshade remains the same (now with a shlocky movie adaptation!)

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Every bi girl with a boyfriend needs a complicated sapphic situationship to survive

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I'm changing Abeke's height in ARHoE once again, to 5'10 by arc two (mind, the global average height for Erdasi women is 5'2) because she felt too short before. I need her to be a giant

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Anyway. Do you guys know what adopts are. I'm addicted to buying them. This is my latest one from servals whom I've named Abeke bcs she just feels like her.

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Okay the reason it is taking me a millennia to post is because I made things harder for myself and am now trying to summarize three different intersecting plot lines at once. Laugh out loud.

This started as me just wanting to flesh out Talon and Shadow’s backstory. But as it turned out, they ran into Drina during the war, who has her own subplot hunting talismans with Devin to keep them out of Kirsi’s hands.

And then, when the war ended and chaos ensued, Talon, Shadow and their (girl)friend Swift attempted to track down Shadow’s brother, Alix (aka Stead). But he’s now got his own mini plot line with Shane, Anya and the first few Redcloaks from before they caught up to him.

Anyway. It’s a lot.

There's some good stuff in here though. GOOD STUFF. A deep dive into the inner workings of the Conquerors. A secret society of spies amidst the Greencloaks, in Greenhaven. My own spin on the plot of the Spirit Animals game. Big focus on the game characters (Keith, Kirsi, Drina). The genuine friendship that develops between Devin and Drina as her death approaches. The romantic undertones of her rivalry with Kirsi. The unofficial polycule of Shadow, Swift and Talon. More talismans covered! Shane's brief and confusing fling with Anya??? And the amount of sapphic romance across these interlocking subplots. I'm having a blast.

[bayofwolves]

Okay the reason it is taking me a millennia to post is because I made things harder for myself and am now trying to summarize three different intersecting plot lines at once. Laugh out loud.

This started as me just wanting to flesh out Talon and Shadow’s backstory. But as it turned out, they ran into Drina during the war, who has her own subplot hunting talismans with Devin to keep them out of Kirsi’s hands.

And then, when the war ended and chaos ensued, Talon, Shadow and their (girl)friend Swift attempted to track down Shadow’s brother, Alix (aka Stead). But he’s now got his own mini plot line with Shane, Anya and the first few Redcloaks from before they caught up to him.

Anyway. It’s a lot.

There's some good stuff in here though. GOOD STUFF. A deep dive into the inner workings of the Conquerors. A secret society of spies amidst the Greencloaks, in Greenhaven. My own spin on the plot of the Spirit Animals game. Big focus on the game characters (Keith, Kirsi, Drina). The genuine friendship that develops between Devin and Drina as her death approaches. The romantic undertones of her rivalry with Kirsi. The unofficial polycule of Shadow, Swift and Talon. More talismans covered! Shane's brief and confusing fling with Anya??? And the amount of sapphic romance across these interlocking subplots. I'm having a blast.

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I promise I’m working on that post, it’s just taking forever! I absolutely love these particular characters and cannot stop writing about them. They’re not all that relevant to the Four or the main plot, they have a little sub-arc and it’s all I can think about.

They’re three Conquerors who later become Redcloaks (Talon, Shadow, and one of my own, Swift). Through their story I’m developing the mechanics of how the Conquerors operated, how they recruited and manipulated their members, etc. because we didn’t see all that was going on behind the scenes in canon.

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I want to introduce you all to my Characters tomorrow

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Back to posting Spirit Animals on Monday! I need time to cook up some things

[8nin]

Not to vagueblog but some of you are definitely the sweetest souls and I think of you fondly

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I love the intricate world of Erdas I've crafted because there are countless clusters of Characters, all with their own Happenings, that exist separately from one another. People in all corners of the world, people from 500 years ago and people 500 years in the future. All important game pieces in the continuity, but sometimes with no relevance to the Four and the main plot. Like planets in a solar system. And every day I get to wake up and choose which group of characters to muse about. Ehehe.

At this point I need a masterdoc just to keep track of all the characters in ARHoE. And yes this is an excuse for the random tangents on this blog