BARBARIAN: The Mad Alpha Is My Mate.
It simply watched him, patient, unhurried, its single open eye moving slowly over him like it was weighing something and had all the time in the world to finish weighing it.
"Who are you," Caierre finally managed, "and what are you doing here?"
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"I have been called many things," the wolf said, voice rolling through the chamber like something felt more than heard. "Most recently, and most unkindly, the Mad Wolf. That name is not mine. It was given after the fact, by people who only ever met what I became and never once knew what I was before." Its enormous head tilted, chains shifting with a groan of old iron. "My true name is Fenrir. First Guardian of Vaelor."
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