Post by # M o r f i e on Aug 7, 2011 20:32:31 GMT
totems
Your totem is an animal spirit that has chosen you as one of its own. Your totem shapes who you are, mentally, emotionally... Physically.
Your totem may visit you in your dreams at the behest of Mortuus, Dovett, or Koss. They are the link between the physical world in which you fight, breed, and live and the spirit world where your soul dwells, the place you visit in your dreams. Your totem is your guide and mentor, and occasionally a messenger from the immortals, or a warning of that which is to come.
Totems are familial. The spirits that protected your ancestors each chose an offspring to protect. While a totem will travel with you to strange lands, it does prefer the company of others like it. Its presence in your offspring will not be as frequent if you travel to a far land and mate with a native of that area, and through the generations it will slowly withdraw to its home land.
Very rarely a pup has the need for two totems to protect it.. It's path will be long and perilous. These pups are hand chosen by the immortals, with the insight of millennia.
Your totem's physical influence in your life is decided at puberty. Before then you show token signs to indicate its presence, but each wolf, upon reaching a certain age, will undergo a ceremony in which they reach an understanding with their totem and will begin to change. Some grow more totemic, in some the signs simply change. By the time you reach adulthood you will display your totem as much or as little as you ever will.