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SASCHA ILLYVICH
Welcome to the Opeth Pack
The wolves take great pride in remaining hidden, and as such, will only give out pertinent details they feel the humans can comprehend without freaking out. Of course, they've told me their stories, allowing me to pass them on for future generations as lessons to live by. Photos aren't actuals obviously, but representations. The wolves feel knowing their true identity would put them in harm's way as man struggles with the magic of the wolves.
Name: Józsi
Book: His Reign
Mates: Lukina and Ilona
Rank in the pack: No one after he abandoned them. Prophecy dictates he will be Alpha.
Current Home: Houston, TX.
Biography: Born to parents of a struggling pack in Hungary, Józsi's responsibilities became apparent from the moment he could shift and hunt. His destiny would be to one day rule the pack, taking it from Kiba.
At the age of fourteen, Józsi realized life with the pack would be too much of a struggle, even with his two mates, Lukina and Ilona. Kiba's fits of insanity had forced him to start challenging the males and Józsi wished for no part in that. Despite his lupine nature, Józsi is rather gentle around his loved ones. Make no mistake, he will kill all who threaten what is is.
He's made a life in Houston as an investor so the lifestyle he led woudl shelter him from Opeth Pack politics but when Lukina showed up, all that life went to hell. Oh, and he could give a fuck that I chose Vin Deisel as his representation, feel me?
Name: Lukina
Book: His Reign
Mates: Ilona and Józsi
Rank in the pack: Pack Messenger
Current Home: Houston, TX and Budapest, Hungary
Biography: Born originally as the runt of the pack, her cognative abilities quickly became apparent when she helped Marco out of several jams and revealed his future outside of known Prophecy. Not entirely blessed with physical strength, she makes up for her lack thereof with fiesty spirit and a take no bullshit attitude.
She quickly became accustomed to the darkness inside that was the wolf, craved it, accepted it as a part of her, in hopes of setting an example for both Ilona and Józsi.
Lukina's methodical way of looking at things included seeing the power in the triad of her, Ilona Józsi as a way to manifest what would come, only if Józsi would pull his damn head out of his ass and take over as Pack Alpha. While her love for him knows no bounds, she wont put up with his bullshit, either. She is a few years younger than Józsi but in the lupine world, legal to drink, drive and die for her pack.
Name: Ilona
Book: His Reign
Mates: Lukina and Józsi
Rank in the pack: Pack Healer
Current Home: Houston, TX and Budapest, Hungary
Biography: It's not hard to imagine Ilona being sweet and delicate, she is. Born into a loving family, she instantly grasped the need to show compassion and understanding toward those less fortunate than her. Including Józsi, the one person who couldn't live with himself after all that had transpired in his childhood. A starving pack, legend no one understood, and rough treatment by the elders taught Ilona that the only way through this world was through love.
Luckily, Lukina always had her back as did Józsi until he left. Then the stab of betrayal hit her and she lost the ability to do anything but heal others halfway. Sure her power grew as she got older, as Prophecy predicted, but without her entire triad, shed never reach her full potential.
In their triad, she is the heart that guides Józsi and Lukina, always pushing them to be better by lending the strongest gift of all; unconditional love. She too is a few years younger than Józsi but still older than Lukina.
Name: Nickolaus
Book: Raining Kisses
Mates: Katarina, Krystyna
Rank in the pack: Józsi's Right Hand
Current Home: Albuquerque, NM and Budapest, Hungary
Biography: When you've murdered people or wolves in cold blood, what do you do? You make sure the urges you feel and cannot control stay kept tight under wraps while you run from your loves ones in hopes of protecting them.
Moving to Albuquerque, NM was the best thing for him. Low population, lower wolf population and enough distraction on Central Ave to occupy the time, but he never stopped missing his mates. He just...couldn't be around them. Not if the threat to them existed, anyway. In Prophecy it's known only that his gift will unleash a new wave of threats on the Opeth Pack, and if they survive them, then they may stand a chance at getting into Heaven.
He's spent too much time alone since his last fling and misses the company of his mates and a part of him actually misses his pack but he'll never admit that aloud. And yes, he too resembles the Vin Diesel image.
Name: Krystyna
Book: Raining Kisses
Mates: Katarina, Nicholaus
Rank in the pack: Pack Healer
Current Home: Budapest, Hungary and Albuquerque, NM
Biography: Definitely capable of a temper, Krystyna is the show of force, defending Krystyna with physical strength when required.
Ever since Nicholaus killed Katarina's father and brother, preventing them from more rape and abuse, she took after him in his aggressive manners. Unfortunately she also shut down a great deal and began to wane in her power.
Relying on Katarina's superior emotional strength made her feel like shit, so when she ran to the Turkish Pack for solace, she did so in hopes of helping her beloved all while self destructive habits formed.
She's forever in love with Nicholaus but his departer from her life wounded her deeply. She'd changed her hair in this picture to match Nicholaus's but she's a natural blonde.
Name: Katarina
Book: Raining Kisses
Mates: Krystyna, Nicholaus
Rank in the pack: Spiritual healer
Current Home: Albuquerque, NM and Budapest, Hungary
Biography: You'd think the Opeth Pack would be in optimum health considering it has four healers, all of whom are superior at their tlaents as they grow in them but Katarina's main focus has always been her lovers. Both of whom are a constant drain on her.
Being born into a position forcing her to use her energy for the greater good has made her strong in her resolve to heal the world and her loved ones, but it's taken a toll. Yet she persists, hoping that her two lovers will find their way back to the peace and happiness they once knew.
Name: Éva
Book: Kisses Fall
Mates: Álmos, János
Rank in the pack: Witch
Current Home: Hayward, California
Biography: Unable to remember what she is or who she was, Éva has led a life of quiet calm with Janika, tending bar in one of the local wtering holes since she awoke ti find herself in Hayward. Through the kindness of a strange priest, she is restored to better health and taught to use what special gifts she has. She's always wanted a life like this, but wondered if there was something more.
Then, after a visit from Álmos, a strange, yet rakish wolf, her life is turned upside down and more about her reality is revealed than she ever thought to know.
Name: Sziga (known as Troy)
Book: Fall Into Love
Mates: Czigany (missing until now) Franciscka
Rank in the pack: Soldier
Current Home: Budapest, Hungary
Biography: Shedding his Hungarian image and heritage for an American one was about as far as Sziga would take his hatred for the Prophecy. Mated to two women at a young age, one of whom was never around, he grew up with Franciscka, having to learn that her heart beat with his, in tune with his and that they danced to teh same rhythm, as long ashe let her. Trouble always followed him when he disavowed that simple fact. Being a soldier means having instant distrust of others, so when Czigany shows up, the war he needs to fight is between his head and heart.
Name: Marco
Book: Wolf Magic
Mates: Selene
Rank in the pack: Omega but eventually his role is the one who guides the wolves to Paradise.
Current Home: Somewhere in the Midwestern United States, Budapest, Hungary
Biography: Marco's a troubled but free spirited member of the Opeth Pack who strongly likes getting into mischief. His harmless yet annoying pranks had angered the Elders of the Opeth pack and forced them to send him to the States, banishing him from the pack. His parents died at a young age and no one knows why, but speculation abounds about the Lunar Flower's disease.
All that's known about his role in Prophecy is what the whispers say, if they could be trusted, and his unborn child will be the first to grace Heaven, otherwise known as Paradise.
Name: Selene
Book: Wolf Magic
Mate: Marco
Rank in the pack: Human Pack Witch
Current Home: Somewhere in the Midwestern United States.
Biography: After too much of Kiba's bullshit and showing signs of insanity, Selene left the pack but kept tabs through the blood bond of her heritage. WIth no ties to the wolves other than through her blood, she cannot heal them from thousands of miles away, but she has kept tabs on them.
Growing up around the mysteries of Prophecy and hearing stories from her grandmother made her curious to dig in and learn more about this Prophecy, but the pack grew weaker, some went insane, others died, while still others left. Les, Kiba's brother, started flirting with her and wouldn't take no for an answer. Even Kiba begged her, saying it was for the good of the pack. She knew better, decided a life outside of fear and nonsense would suit her better than all the unwanted attention. Moving to the Midwest was a change though she missed Lukna and the other girls of the pack.
Oh, and she happens to like the fact that this author chose Bernadette Peters for inspiration, as the actress matches her in every aspect.