Pronunciation: SKY-fire (rhymes with high flyer)
Huntress Skyfire, daughter of Prey-Pacer and Wreath and half-sister of Two-Spear, was fifth chief of the Wolfriders. Given her Huntress title by her brother, it proved a hollow gift: he led all the hunts himself and rarely acknowledged her considerable talents and fierceness.
At odds with her crazed brother for much of her life, she eventually challenged him when he embarked on a plan of action certain to lead to the tribe’s annihilation. She proposed avoidance of the human threat, but Two-Spear would have none of that. She was defeated in the challenge–but ultimately had victory at his subsequent departure, becoming chief. It was then that an awareness of the tribe’s necessary balance formed within her, an understanding that prompted Skyfire to create the Wolfrider code of life, The Way: “a tribe that hunted, howled … and survived.”
Skyfire, to the elves, means both sunset and lightning; both interpretations suited her temperament well.
