Cadmus Wilder, drunk and lost, once stumbled past the blood-ward boundary by mistake. Fenris killed him where he stood, then led his Shadowfang wolves into Silvercrest territory and slaughtered until rivers ran red with blood.
To end the war, the Silvercrest Alpha had no choice but to offer the most beautiful she-wolf in all the Six Great Packs, Seraphina Crystalis, as an arranged mate to the Supreme Alpha.
Seraphina, emboldened by her status as the Silvercrest Alpha's daughter, answered to no one. She forced her way past the blood-ward into the Sacred Den with her handmaidens at her back:
"What filthy human-born dares hide in the Sacred Den? Bedding Shadowfang guards and getting herself pregnant?"
"Today, I'll clean house for the Supreme Alpha myself!"
She ordered her handmaidens to hack off my limbs, then tore open my belly with bare hands and ripped the pup from my womb.
As I lay dying, Fenris arrived with the Alphas of the Six Great Packs to witness the birth of their future sovereign.
Seraphina dragged me before him and held up the infant she had tortured to death, her face bright with triumph: