From even before her birth, Moonflower's life seemed destined for misfortune. Her father, Gregorn, was a member of the Lhutomyn shifter tribe, a very close-minded lupine people who despised most outsiders. But while out hunting one day, he encountered a beautiful female of a distant, unrelated shifter lupine tribe, the Fenrit tribe, named Whitelily. Although knowing he would be scorned by his people, they fell in love after many clandestine meetings. After a few months, they were wed, and she returned to the Lhutomyn with him.

Nearly a year later, Whitelily gave birth to a little girl, who they named Moonflower Two-Winds, in honor of Whitelily's tribal custom. But the half-outsider child was shunned, taunted by her peers and ignored by the adults. For all this, she was a happy child.. up until the day her parents went out hunting and died in an unfortunate accident. The old woman who begrudgingly took her in informed seven-year-old Moonflower that it was likely no accident, a theory that was proven a few days later when Moonflower was exiled from the tribe.

Forced out and made to live on her own, she wandered for many years, surviving as best she could with her natural-born lupine instincts and the help of the occasional benevolent stranger. It was after ten years of lonesome wandering that Moonflower happened upon a fellow outcast Lhutomyn, an older man who called himself Cass. Moonflower was hesitant at first, but when they discovered their similar pasts, they quickly became very close. She was quite dedicated to Cass, and was immensely upset when he revealed he was ill.

Moonflower's heart was broken when, after but a few months of companionship, Cass told her he was dying. Not wanting his young friend to see him die, he begged her to leave him; he didn't want her to be hurt by his eventual decay and demise.. she was young, she should go live her life. Unable to say no to the man she'd come to care so much for, no matter how much she hated to leave his side, Moon did as he asked and went off to find new adventures.

During a bad winter storm, she stumbled into a cave and was attacked by its unhappy bear owner. Grievously wounded, Moon thought for sure she was going to die.. when to her surprise, she was rescued by a band of Dwarves. They took her back to their mountain kingdom, where they tended her wounds and sheltered her for the harsh winter. Delighted by the girl's friendly, vivacious nature and general optimism, they taught her the ways of metal-working. Or.. tried to, anyway. She was a disaster when it came to blacksmith work, but they soon discovered Moon had an artistic talent when it came to carving wood, glass, and metal. The Dwarven hall was filled with many artistic works that winter, and for the whole year following.

But when the second summer came around, Moon decided it was time to leave. There was something she had to do. She found her way to the town where the doctor Cass said he was going to see lived, and asked where his grave was, so she could pay her respects. To her surprise, the doctor told her Cass was not, in fact, dead. Suddenly filled with hope at the thought of seeing him again, she fled to the city where the doctor said he'd gone. Thus began a long chase in search of Cass.. but it wasn't long before the trail ran cold. Disheartened, Moon decided it was time she gave up on him and found someplace to at least weather the coming winter. That was how she found herself wandering into Jeroden.

As luck would have it, Moon did indeed find Cass in Jeroden. But their reunion was fraught with discord - Moonflower, uncertain of how to display or confess her feelings to Cass, unintentionally drove a wedge between them. Sinking further into despair and solitude, Moon withdrew from her old friend and the man she loved, and was only too grateful to accept a summons, a frenzied call for help, from the Dwarves who had protected and aided her. Fleeing the discomfort of her wrecked relationship with Cass, Moon returned to the Dwarves, helping them hunt down and destroy a creature that had eluded the earth dwellers with her lupine senses. Lingering with her friends as long as she could, Moon finally departed from their earthen halls and once again decided to brave the differences of the heart. She spent more than a year tracking down Cass again, following him from place to place.. until she finally found him.

But it was not to be the joyful reunion and budding romance begun that she had hoped for; Cass had found love in another woman's arms, completely forgetting about his fellow shifter. For the first time, Moon knew what heartbreak truly felt like. Refusing to even speak to Cass, she fled, disappearing into the wilderness to lick her proverbial wounds. She wandered for a time, bereft and icy, unsure how to live with her one clear goal forever taken from her. It seemed the hand of Fate steered her toward the port town, and onto the ship there, bound for lands unknown.

After three months at sea, the ship ran aground, and Moonflower decided that was as good a sign as any that she had reached the end of the line. She stayed ashore and roamed the countryside with her belongings in tow, looking for a place to settle down. What she found was Isra. It wasn't long before she bought a shop with living quarters upstairs and started selling her goods to the curious people. She met many interesting figures, but none who touched her quite so much as Kematian Sahar and Alden. Alden was a silent and stoic former assassin, who befriend Moon when no one else seemed interested in doing anything but tormenting (and trying to murder) her. He became her bodyguard as well as her friend, and after a period of a few weeks, Moon named him as her pack-brother, providing him with a talisman to signal the adoptive familiar bond.

But Kematian.. that was another story. Kematian was an awkward, unsocial person like herself, and from the moment they met, he seemed enamored with her beauty; Moon was likewise struck by his handsome features, although she told herself she didn't care about him, an idea which began to lose credence with each passing day. Finally her hesitant attraction culminated in the unintentional giving of a courting gift, followed by their first date - and their first kiss. Moonflower thought that her inner wolf was right - that Kematian was the man who would one day be her mate. But she began to see him less and less, and she began to wonder.

Shortly after the first day of spring, Moon grew restless and went into the Free Plain around Isra to stretch her legs. To her surprise, a bunch of Orcs appeared and frightened her, chasing what they saw as a wolf into a trap. Moon was captured and drugged, and carted off from Isra, unconscious and alone. When she came to, it was to find herself in a cage; quickly resuming her human form, she begged the Orcs to free her. What happened surprised her. The leader of this group of hunters broke open the cage and began praising her as Wolf-Kin, something which was apparently of great reverence to the Orc tribe. The Orc, named Mak'Zuul, asked Moon if she would run with his group like family.

For a time, Moon was torn. A part of her greatly missed Alden and Kematian, but another, louder part of her argued that they were better off without her - Alden had a mate who hated Moon because of what she was, and was carrying his children. And Kematian... Well, she had seen less and less of him, and even the voice of her inner wolf had begun to mourn the loss of the mate she'd never really had. Believing that they wouldn't even miss her, Moon agreed to run with the Orcs as her pack, and accompanied them to their tribal settlement. To her surprise, she was introduced to the tribe's chieftain and one of his wives, and for the first time in a very long time, Moonflower began to feel that she had finally found her place. Once again, she was wrong. The Chieftain told her that she was welcome to partake of their food and rest, but she would never be one of them.

Bereft and cast out again, Moon fled the hut, and the village in its entirety, running in her wolf form until she could run no further. Having refused to eat or sleep, she was on the verge of death when she collapsed near the remains of a village that spanned a bridge, and knew no more. While she was unconscious, a great earth dragon named Va'nei, the Earthwarden, came across Moonflower, and rescued her. She took Moon back to the valley that was her Sanctuary, and restored her to health. Surprised by being saved, Moon was even more startled when Va'nei asked why she'd run herself nearly to death. For the first time, she told someone her whole story - from her birth to what had led her to laying beside a river nearly dead. Va'nei, ancient and wise, advised Moon that she needed to come to terms with her feelings for Kematian, and admit that she was in love with him, and suggested that she should decide whether she wanted to return, and offered to fly her back to Isra if she so wished.

Moon was floored by this revelation from the dragon, and tried to insist that she didn't love Kematian. But after a few days of introspection, she realized it was true: She loved Kematian Sahar with all of her being. Her wolf had realized it before her conscious mind had been willing to accept it, but there was no denying it now. The question still remained of whether or not she would return to Isra, as Moon continued to believe that Alden and Kematian both were better off without her. Before she could decide one way or the other, to her immense surprise, Alden and Kematian both appeared before her within Va'nei's sanctuary. She discovered that Kematian had found her note and, fearing for her safety, had gone to Alden, who had gotten magical transportation for the both of them in an effort to find and rescue her, tracking her using a pin she had been given by Alden's employer in order to keep her safe.

Faced with a dilemma, Moon made a snap decision: She told both her pack-brother and the mate of her heart what had happened with the Orcs, and why she had fled rather than try to return to Isra, and how Va'nei had saved her life. Explaining to Kematian that she had realized she was in love with him, but believed that he was better off without her, she nonetheless confessed that she wanted to be with him - to be his mate, his lover, his whatever, as long as she could be by his side for the rest of her life.. but that if he didn't want that, she would understand, and she would stay with Va'nei. To Moon's amazement, Kematian told her that he wanted to be with her, that he loved her. Alden stated that he wanted Moon to return with them, to be in his life and the lives of his children. Moon decided, then, that she would return.. to be with her pack.

Va'nei flew them back to Isra, and Moon promised to see Alden soon, before she and Kematian entered the city together. That night, they became mates, finding passion and love within each other's arms. The two were quite happy, for a time. Moon believed that she had finally found her place in the world.. and that place was within Kematian's arms, wherever he may be. Or so she thought. After they mated, Moon began to see less and less of Kematian once more. One day, after spending time with Alden and his children, uncertain and wanting to talk to him about their relationship and where it was going, she went to find Kematian.. only to find him gone, his home empty and no word of him to be found.

 

Feeling her heart crumble to dust within her chest, she fled into the wilderness, running from her problems as she always did. In her wanderings, she stumbled into a forest, bedragged and malnourished, and was nearly slain by an ogre.. but she was saved by a strange white-haired knight on a quest. His name was Mihael Làidir, and he refused to let Moon simply give up and die. He nursed her back to health and became her friend, helping her find her way back to Isra, as well as giving her some advice and direction. Upon her return to Isra, she told Alden about what had happened, about Kematian's abandonment and the loss of her pup, and told him that she wouldn't be staying in Isra. After a few months of wandering, Moon and Mihael confessed that they had feelings for each other, and began courting.

It was a few months after that when Mihael asked Moon to marry him, and she said yes, the two becoming lovers a short time later. The quest Mihael was on, seeking the lost king and magical sword of his homeland, Alban, came to an end when a seer informed them that said king and sword were already back in Alban, and the kingdom was soon to be restored to its former glory. Realizing that his quest was truly over, the two resolved to return to Alban and begin their life together. They arrived very shortly after the king made his triumphant appearance in the city and just before his coronation was due to happen. Moon was apprehensive about meeting his family, but they welcomed her readily, and wedding planning soon began.

A month later, Mihael and Moon were married in a small, simple ceremony. It seemed she'd finally found her place in the world, and she was happier than she'd ever been.