Faction The Wolf that would be a Ranger

[Crenth Wolfblood]

"That will be greatly appreciated."

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain inclined her head once, a quiet gesture of acceptance.

"Then we will speak again at first light," she said calmly. "Until then, rest. Beginnings deserve a clear mind."

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

The wind never truly slept on Midvinter . It moved like a living thing—howling through iron pines, whispering across the longhouses, carrying the smell of frost, fuel, and old blood. Crenth welcomed it as he always had. He sat on a stone carved by ancestors who had never known hyperspace, his back against a rune-etched pillar, his Bow beside, quiver full of arrows at his hip, and his spear
aid across his knees like a patient beast.


Tonight, he rested.


The word felt strange. Rest had never meant stillness to the Bloodwolf, clan; it meant sharpening, remembering, listening for what came next. Crenth closed his eyes and let the Force move through him the way his people believed the world-soul moved through all things—not a command, not a leash, but a tide. The Silver Jedi had spoken of balance and compassion. His clan spoke of honor and endurance. In the quiet, he felt how close those paths truly were.


His blood sang with old wars.


He remembered his first hunt beneath the twin moons, his father's voice rough with pride, his mother braiding wolf fur into his hair before battle. He remembered the clash of shields, the sound of enemies falling on frozen ground that drank heat and life alike. A wolf howled below the cliffs, answered by another farther off. Crenth smiled faintly. The clan would sing for him tomorrow, drink and boast, and pretend they were not afraid of the void taking one of their own. He would leave them.
He opened his eyes and looked at the stars again.

Somewhere out there were worlds that had never known frost, enemies who fought with lies instead of blades, and allies who believed strength meant restraint. Crenth Wolfblood did not know if he would belong among the Silver Jedi. But belonging had never been the point.

He rose, towering and scarred, and pressed his fist to the rune pillar in farewell. The stone was warm beneath his touch, as if the world itself remembered him.

"Guard them," he murmured—to the spirits, to the Force, to whatever listened.

Tomorrow, he would leave Midvinter.

"Wise advice," he replied as he closed his eyes and fell into peaceful sleep, unlike any he had known

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain did not interrupt his rest, nor would she have. Some moments were meant to be met in stillness rather than speech.

When she did answer, it was quietly, carried on the same wind that moved through the pines; it was simple and sure.

"Then sleep," she said softly. "The path will still be there when you wake. And you will not walk it alone."

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

He woke as the first rays of dawn crept through the branches of pines, leaving Midvinter, which was not exile, but it felt like a death. He stood on the ice one last time, wolf-fur cloak snapping behind him, and pressed his forehead to the ground. He promised the world he would return stronger—or not at all. "I'm ready lead on wise one," he replied gathering his belongings

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain paused at his words, turning back toward him as the pale light of dawn settled across the ice. The wind carried his promise away, but its weight remained.

"My name is Jairdain," she said. No titles. No ceremony. Just the truth of who she was.

She inclined her head once, respectful of what he was leaving behind, then turned and began to walk away from the stones, away from the familiar pull of home, toward the path that led beyond the pines and into open sky.

"Come," she added gently. "The first step is always the hardest. After that, the road will teach you the rest."

And without looking back, she led him forward, giving him the space to follow when he was ready, trusting that he would.

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

"Yes, Jairdain." he replied and paused for a moment, taking in the weight of choice before following her. He had taken the first step

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain did not rush him.

She felt the pause, the weight settling into place, and allowed it the space it deserved. When his steps finally followed hers, she acknowledged it with a quiet nod, nothing more.

"Then the path has accepted you," she said softly. "Walk it at your own pace. Resolve matters more than speed."

And she continued, steady and unhurried, letting Midvinter fall behind them, not erased, not forgotten, carried forward in who he had chosen to become.

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

He gave Jairdain's words great consideration as he continued to follow behind her at a standard Valkyri pace. " A new path, a chapter in the saga of my life," he said as he walked across the frozen grounds, the crunch of ice, and newly fallen snow beneath his feet, the winds all too familiar howl and chill at his back.

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain walked ahead without breaking her pace, letting the rhythm of his steps settle into hers, the crunch of ice and snow becoming a shared cadence.

"Yes," she said quietly, the cold air carrying her words without effort. "A chapter shaped by choice, not inheritance."

She angled her head slightly, as if listening not just to him, but to the world he was leaving behind.

"Remember it," she added. "Not as something you escaped, but as the ground that taught you how to stand. The saga does not end here. It widens."

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

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"Indeed, let us see what the choice and this chapter hold in store," he replied as he continued to walk. The sun was high in the sky when they reached the entrance to the space port as they went inside
Crenth Wolfblood came down out of the upper sky-lanes like a falling oath, boots ringing on the frost-steel causeway of Midvinter Spaceport. Above him, the aurora engines burned green and violet, casting ghost-light across docking pylons shaped like runestones. Snow drifted sideways in the artificial gravity, caught in the breath of arriving freighters and departing war-skiffs. Midvinter was always cold. Midvinter remembered.
Crenth pulled his fur-lined cloak tighter, the pelt stitched with the sigils of his longship-clan. The wolf skull at his shoulder—real, bleached, and older than some stars—clicked softly against his pauldron with each step. Beneath the cloak, his armor was scarred,
etched with names: brothers, sisters, oaths kept and broken. His beard was braided with silver wire and data-tokens, each braid a story, each token a debt.
The spaceport smelled of ozone, ice, and old blood. A line of mercenaries lounged near Dock Nine, laughing too loudly, their eyes lingering on Crenth's Bow and spare, they were beautiful things, finely crafted, runes that drank light. Weapons that knew his hand.
Crenth did not slow. He never did. Midvinter respected forward motion.
As he passed beneath the great arch of the Allfather's Gate, the port's sentries nodded in respect, they
the saga was stitched into his armor. Wolfblood. A name carried on military channels and whispered in pirate holds. A name that meant the job would be done, and the price would be high.
His destination lay ahead: Dock Thirteen, unlucky to offworlders, sacred to his people.

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain moved beside him as the spaceport opened up around them, her steps unhurried and confident amid the noise and motion. She felt the weight Midvinter placed on those who left it and the way the world remembered, even when it did not try to bind.

"The choice has already answered you," she said quietly, her voice steady against the echoing steel and wind. "You are here. You kept walking."

She angled slightly toward Dock Thirteen, guiding without touching, her presence a calm line through the press of mercenaries, engines, and old reputations.

"Whatever this chapter holds," Jairdain added, "it will not erase who you were. It will test how you carry it."

And with that, she continued forward, leading him toward the ship and the sky beyond, leaving Midvinter behind not as a grave, but as a witness.

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

​

Crenth paused at the edge of the dock, breath steaming in the cold. He rested one gauntleted hand on the Spare haft and looked out at the stars beyond the port's shield—hard, distant, and waiting.

"Soon," he murmured, to the ship, to the ancestors, to whatever gods still listened out here.

Then Crenth Wolfblood stepped forward, and Midvinter watched another saga begin.

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain stopped only long enough to feel the moment settle, the way a world exhales when it releases one of its own. She did not rush him, did not soften the weight of what he left behind.

"Soon," she echoed quietly, not to hurry him, but to honor the promise in the word.

Then she turned toward the waiting ship, her path clear and steady.

"Come," Jairdain said, gentle and certain. "The stars are patient, but they do not wait forever."

And as Crenth stepped forward, she led him on, carrying Midvinter with them not as a chain, but as a story that would walk beside him into the dark.

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

​

Crenth Wolfblood stood at the forward viewport as the starship loosened its moorings from Midvinter's ice-ringed docks. The world below turned slowly, a great blue-white shield etched with storms and ancient scars. To others, it was a frozen frontier. To Crenth, it was a mother who taught him how to endure.

His breath fogged the glass, more from habit than need. He wore the old marks still—braids bound with rune-steel, a wolf's tooth hanging at his throat, armor scored by frost and fire alike.
The engines sang, a low thunder like a war drum under snow. As the Wake slipped into the black, Crenth felt the familiar pull in his chest—the ache of leaving, the promise of becoming. Vikings did not cling to hearths forever. They voyaged. They tested the edge of the map.
This voyage, though, was different.


On the holotable behind him glimmered the sigil of the Silver Jedi: a blade of light set against a field of stars. Alongside it burned the Antarian Rangers' crest—clean lines, disciplined, watchful. Guardians of the frontier. Seekers of balance. Not raiders, not kings. Something rarer.
Crenth turned from the viewport and flexed his scarred hands.
"New chapter," he murmured, the words tasting strange and right all at once.
The Rangers would test him. He welcomed that. Wolves trusted strength, but they followed purpose. If the Antarians truly stood between the darkness and the helpless, then his axe and his Bow, and spare would find a place among them. The stars stretched into lines as the ship
leapt to hyperspace. Midvinter vanished, but its cold courage stayed with him—etched into bone, into memory, into the name Wolfblood.
Crenth squared his shoulders and smiled, a thin, feral thing.
Let the galaxy learn what kind of Viking walked with the Silver Jedi now.

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain remained where she was, feeling the subtle shift as realspace gave way to hyperspace, the familiar stretch, the settling hush that followed. She did not interrupt the moment, allowing Midvinter its distance and Crenth his reckoning.

"Then walk it well," she said quietly, her voice steady and close. "Purpose will find you faster than glory ever could."

The ship surged onward, the stars gone, the path ahead unwritten. Jairdain rested her hands lightly at her sides, content to let silence do the rest. The journey had begun.

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Crenth Wolfblood]

​

Beyond the viewport, the stars burned cold and countless, a sky no hearthfire could ever warm. Midvinter lay somewhere behind him now—an iron-blue world of frost seas and rune-carved cities, where children learned the taste of snow before they learned their own names.
He touched the wolf-fang talisman at his throat, its surface worn smooth by years of battle and prayer. The ship slipped through hyperspace like a blade between ribs, Crenth trusted
runes more than he trusted nav-computers. Machines forgot. Ancestors did not.
Ahead waited the Antarian Rangers of the Silver Jedi—warrior-monks spoken of in Midvinter sagas with equal parts reverence and suspicion. Jedi, yes—but not the soft-lit mystics of old Republic tales. These were Rangers: wardens of the rim, keepers of balance where law thinned and darkness learned to hunt.
Crenth rolled his shoulders, feeling the weight of his Baow and spare on his back. Its edge could cleave starsteel; its haft bore etched oaths sworn under a blood-moon. Jedi favored elegant blades of light. Crenth favored tools that remembered impact.

Jairdain Ismet-Thio

 

[Jairdain Ismet-Thio]

Jairdain stood beside him in the quiet of the deck, the hum of hyperspace a steady undercurrent through the hull. She did not look out at the stars, she felt them, the long pull of distance and intent drawing them toward their destination.

"The Antarian Rangers are not softened by ceremony," she said calmly, as if answering the unspoken tension in his shoulders. "They stand where borders fail and choices matter. You will not be asked to forget who you are, only to learn when to temper it."

Her head angled slightly toward the fore of the ship, where their course was already set.

"We are bound for the Jedi Citadel," Jairdain continued. "It is a place of testing more than welcome. Stone, discipline, patience. A place where purpose is examined before it is accepted."

A brief pause, then quieter:

"Your weapons remember impact," she said. "The Rangers will understand that. They value restraint not because force is weak—but because it must be chosen."

The hum deepened as hyperspace carried them onward.

"Rest while you can, Crenth Wolfblood. When we arrive, the Citadel will begin asking its questions."

Crenth Wolfblood

 

[Willa Isard]

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The Citadel of the Silver jedi was massive, the rangers along with many of their military forces had come here or used the outposts that they maintained. Willa had seen the strike teams when they were deployed from Sasori and Silver jedi areas on Atrisia. Their armor divisions and siege weapons. The vahla was standing there as she oversaw it all, braids over her ears as her hair was tied into a ponytail. Not the heat of the world but the exercises that they were doing with the gravity traps. The jericho class armor gleaming with her weapons before she looekd down at them. The Sixth line division running through drills with rangers and heralds were in there as opposition.

CRACK.... The sound of the rifle came as snipers were included, nornfang snipers from her own personal unit as the force users had abilities many others didn't.. Her eyes tracking the shots to the locations as she spoke into the comlinks. "Relocate, each shot you should be moving to make the tracking harder." She had seen the benefits of the longer range snipers with the orbital snipers and the citadel provided one of the most fortified locations of the silver jedi... the jedi orders themselves as it was a fallback for many and offered to them. "They are getting better." The voice of the La Rasa came as it appeared on her palm looking at the woman.

"You should bring in some of the iron mongers next or at least the iron maidens. If we continue the way the grandmaster is planning we'll be supplementing forces for patrols with more biots and droids.... but the potential for recruits and trained soldiers is statistically much higher. A trillion worlds can yield at even ten percent recruitment of worlds more then most standing armies." Willa looked at the AI and spoke. "The Grandmasters ambition to expand the Silver Jedi's influence using the ancient web is... well ambitious but there isn't enough to cover the over-extension." She was it while watching the soldiers as they were trying to climb the wall with the herald training throwing knives and sandbags at them.