Fey-Touched Wildwolf

Though wildwolves may be extinct on the Material Plane, a subspecies still roams the Feywild. Huge, intelligent, and morphed by the wild magic of the realm, fey-touched wildwolves are known to hunt in packs, overwhelming prey with numbers and tactics.

Sylvan Servants. Occasionally, a powerful seelie or unseelie fey will gain the loyalty of a pack of fey-touched wildwolves. These canines will often be used as prized hunting dogs and guards due to their predatory nature. The unobservant fey must still be careful, however; mistreatment of a single wildwolf will often result in the entire pack turning upon their once-owner, tearing them and any with them to shreds.

Gaining the loyalty of one wildwolf, much less a pack, is a long and arduous process. Though ferocious with prey, the fey-touched wildwolves are known to be skittish of humanoids due to a lingering ancestral fear from the days their ancestors were hunted on the Material Plane.

Teleporting Terrors. One of the traits they are most well-known for is their ability to instinctively teleport. Not often seen outside of combat, their innate ability to teleport large distances is often used when taking down particularly troublesome prey animals, or when attempting to escape from another creature. It is unknown precisely how the fey-touched wildwolves developed this ability, and some wonder if the wolves previously interbred with blink dogs.

Beyond just teleporting, the wolves have also somehow developed the hunting tatic of spitting a black, stinking, blinding fluid. This fluid seems to be made of decomposed plant particles and bile, though it is unsure how precisely the wolves produce it.

Foilage Fur. The most notable changes in the fey-touched wildwolves from their extinct counterparts is that their hide is partially composed of plants and fungi. The precise makeup of the plants is dependent on their parents' hide compositions; the location of their birth and the plants native to the region; and the region, or regions, they occupy throughout their lifetime. A fey-touched wildwolf which lives primarily in a forested region known for its brilliant morningflowers and curled ferns may have a hide almost entirely covered in blooming vines and small ferns, while a more nomadic wildwolf may have a much more odd and erratic assortment of different plants lining it.

Some fey have attempted to breed specific animals for their patterns, in order to create more domesticated and aesthetically pleasing working wolves. Most, if not all, attempts fail due to wildwolves' stubbornness and propensity to mate for life.

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