Great Wolf
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Area of habitation
North Ceru, and occasionally as far south as the Rimial Woods.
Diet
Meat of any kind, from carrion to large prey. They also consume the occasional fruit or root, as seen with smaller wolves.
Relative size
About the size of a brown bear, on average.
Entry
A very similar species to the dire wolves that I've seen the Orvar clan breeding, however I've yet to see their kind in the wild. These seem to be a totally different species of wolf, having gone down the same path as their smaller grey brethren. They lack the stocky, big-boned and muscular bodies that the Orvar's dire wolves have, rather seeming like a large subspecies of the grey wolf. They have a much higher propensity for white fur than normal, and can live as far north as the ice plains past the northern mountain ranges, coining the name "ice wolves" by some, who enjoy using more creative names than "wolf of unusual size." They tend to stay in packs only as large as their environment can maintain, usually just a breeding pair and their youngest children. They could likely maintain stability in families much larger, however, which could pose threatening if we encroached too far on their livable territory.
In my time interacting with them, they display a much more organized, social and aware intelligence than any other species of wolves I've seen, rivaling even the domestic cat or dog in their ability to carry on a coherent conversation, emotional depth, and ability to use reason. If they could speak, (and weren't giant predatory beasts,) they would probably get along quite well with some niche of the descendant societies.
That doesn't, however, change their nature. I feel obliged to warn the reader that they will still behave as a wolf does, but they are much larger. If a small threat approaches a pack of wolves, they will annihilate it. Imagine how a descendant seems to a pack of wolves the size of bears.
