Once, long ago, humans roamed the earth, going between land masses with ease and pleasure. This was the natural way of things. There were many wild animals on the planet, wolves among them.

One day, a white wolf was lost and thirsty. Her name was Leda. She came upon a body of water that stretched as far as her eyes could see. Thinking it something to drink, she lapped it up quickly. It was bitter to the taste, but it would do. She found, upon drinking it, that it made her feel very strange. Overcome with dizziness, she fell into the water, plunging in over her head. Yet she did not drown. She felt solidity beneath her feet, and when she looked up again, discovered that she was on an underwater land bridge. She hadn't noticed it before, but now she could see it.

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Eagerly she ran along it, splashing the bitter water into her coat. She ran for three days, and on the third day she found an island. She named it Reikoku-Soul Island-because there was no one on it. That is, she thought there was no one on it.

She found that the island was plentiful with all the wildlife she'd known in the past, but without many predators. She was the main predator here, along with a mountain lion here and a bear there. She ate many things and drank the sweet lake and river water that came from the island. After she had been there a while, she discovered a change in her appearance. She was no longer white, as she had been, but silver, with ice blue eyes. Not only this, but she sprouted wings.

One day, while she was flying about the island, she noticed something she hadn't before. It was another wolf. It was a male, big and black, and he had wings of red. She went down to him, and he explained to her all about the island.

His name was Chryses, and he had lived on the island for two years longer than Leda had. He said that the island's water was magical, and it gave them powers normal wolves didn't have. The two soon fell in love, and began to populate the island.

And so it went that many children were born, and the island soon grew full of wolves of all kinds. Some of the wolves didn't have powers, as Chryses and Leda had, but some of them did. Once Chryses and Leda were gone, the wolves continued to grow within themselves, and they split into groups.

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Shiro and his mate began the Heart pack, loving all and caring for all who came into their territory. Shiro's worst enemy, Kuro, began the Heartless pack, trying to compete with Shiro. The Full Moon pack was made much later, created by Gata. The New Moon pack was created when a wolfess named Sakura asked Gata for permission to split his land in two. And, very last of all, the land that was left was named Kuran no Hikari by its founders-Kaen and Koori. Thus, all of the packs were made and that was the start of Watera no Tamashii

Admin: Mayoi
Rating: PG-13 for animal violence, cursing, and miscellaneous inappropriate-ness.
Species allowed: Wolves
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Type: Semi-Realistic wolf site.

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The year is 1845, and the place is Feudal Japan. Closed off from the rest of the world, but with external pressures to open trading coming from all sides, Japan has still managed to rise culturally and economically. The Emperor is the most popular and loved ruler in fifty years, and the royal family is thought to be made up of heavenly people descended from the gods. The country runs smoothly and efficiently, the shogunate handling all matters of state and war while the Emperor and his advisers handle matters of politics and religion. The economy is running steadily, with the merchant class seeming to gain in wealth and power as the years progress, and the artisans in the cities creating new works of beauty and crafting amazing inventions. Everyone seems happy. Everyone seems healthy. Everyone loves their rulers.

Except...not everyone is happy, nor healthy, and certainly not everyone loves the Emperor Raidon or the Empress Fuyo. With the rise of the merchant class and the subjugation placed upon them by the shogunate and samurai, the common people grow restless and agitated. Talk of rebellion is spread through the townships. And though members of nobility and the military try to ignore the steady drumming of insurgency rising from their very cities, it is becoming harder and harder as the rebels take on strength and determination. Adding fuel to the fire is the inability of the royal family to provide the empire with an heir. Empress Fuyo, though she had been the wife of His Excellency for nine years, has not had a single son to carry on the heavenly line. Rebels spit venom at the weary empress, their insults multiplying as they shout things like "Barren woman!", and "We don't want a son-less empress!". The rebels look to Akina Nakahara, the favored courtesan of His Excellency, and plans to kick the empress off her rightful throne to put Akina in her place culminate at an alarming rate.

Outside the rising palace mutiny, the criminal organizations known as Yakuza war against each other to see who will come out as "ruler" of their personal crime syndicate, and bloodshed runs in the city streets. In the center of this criminal warfare, the drug Opium has begun to rise in popularity. Addicts, the desperate men and women who scrape and claw for the morphine-like drug, fuel the income of the mainstream opium sellers and yakuza. Opium dens and brothels have become common institutions within the cities, and there's a drug for sale for every addict, and a whore for sale for every man or woman willing to pay for the services.

Now, with crime turning to war in the cities, with talk of revolution spoken not only by the common man but by the very people in the palace service, with disease and addiction and the seedy atmosphere of brothels and opium dens calling out to people in the streets, will the Heavenly Kingdom crumble? How can any of us survive where even songs we thought we knew by heart are changing into strange melodies? The answer...well, that's all up to you. Enjoy the Heavenly City, at least while it lasts.