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The term "Utlah" is used to describe a lone or vagrant wolf which has been rejected by the pack. The "Utlah" wolves are no longer called by their true or birth name, but under the collective label of Utlah. Their social standing is the lowest possible, with the rest of the pack either ignoring them or attacking them. The Utlah are forced to follow the pack at a distance, by themselves, constantly reminded of their previous life in the pack. They become the pack's "boogey men", with cubs being warned to be good, or the Utlah will get you...
Utlah are banished from the pack for being different, or for not acting "for the good of the pack". These can either be wolves who are mentally disturbed, or wolves who are just strange or fanciful, not conforming to the idealized image of the wolf. Away from the pack the wolves are left to fend for themselves, and eat with the rest of the scavengers who follow around the pack. This gives rise to another term for Utlah, Raven-Wolf.
These wolves are only treated with respect on one occasion, in one of the wolf's legends:
The legend of Hidey Wood
In the time just after the Firstdark, a foulness wandered the land, bringing decay and corruption to wherever it settled. One such place was Hidey Wood, which lay to the far south of the wolves territory. To find a way to rid the Evil from the wood, two creatures were selected. One was Issa, a weasel, with the ability of languages, and the other was Katanama, a red kite. They were told to put aside their natural differences, and so they set off in search of a mystic fox called O-sansan.
On finding the mystic vixen, O-sansan said that they needed a wolf to battle the evil entity, for only the wolf has remained pure of heart. She said that the wolf sort no alliance with men, asks no favours and concedes no territory willingly. The wolf has remained uncorrupted, it's spirit strong, it's soul unblemished. It is a spiritual warrior that they require to rid Hidey Wood of the evil.
After several days searching, Issa and Katanama had failed to find a champion. All the nearby wolves would not leave their packs, and were in hiding from man. They were poor creatures with damaged spirits. So O-sansan sent the pair north, to where all the braver wolves had been driven.
Katanama was fast and could make the journey easily, but Issa was slow and couldn't make such a long journey. Although Katanama was fast he could not speak Canidae, so if he were to find a wolf he still required Issa to talk with the wolf. So it was agreed that Katanama should carry Issa in his talons. To avoid being crushed in Katanama's talons, Issa would cry "Remember the wolf!" whenever the talons would grip too tightly. And so the pair headed north in search of the wolf.
But no wolves were willing to help. They had their own problems to deal with, and would not help the kite or the weasel.
One day the pair were eating at a carcass left by a wolfpack. While Katanama was eating, Issa was approached by a lone wolf. His coat was moth-eaten and covered in ticks. Flies bothered him in clouds and his eyes were weak and watery. "I have heard" said the wolf "that you are looking for a champion to drive out the evil in your homeland."
"That is true" said Issa, unimpressed by the wolf "Do you know of such a wolf to combat this entity?"
"Let me first explain who I am," said the wolf, settling on his haunches. "I am the raven-wolf, the Utlah. I have no name because I am no longer of the pack. I call myself "Outcast" and am all of the Utlahs that ever were or ever will be. We are one creature because we are reduced to our basic selves and at this level there is no difference between us. There are many outcasts but only one outcast. Do you follow?"
"I think so." said Issa.
"I have nothing left for me in this world. I have undergone the worst possible punishment, including death, that a wolf fears. I have been cast out, banished, from my pack. I may smell, hear, see my old life ahead of me, moving through the mists, but I may never enter it again, I am alone. Not solitary, like the fox, but alone. You, who are not a pack animal, cannot imagine how that feels. It is the end of all things. Blackness, misery, utter hopelessness.
"Then I heard of your mission. Hope sprang into my breast. I am the Outcast, I am a thousand wolves who wish to redeem themselves. Trust me with this quest and you will not have one, but great numbers under a single skin. I wish to travel to this place to do mortal combat, and even die in the attempt at ridding your land of this foul presence."
Issa, taken aback by this speech, was aware that it was the Utlah or nothing, so she agreed. And a small flame arose in the wolf's eyes. He straightened his legs, firmed his shoulders, lifted his tail, and headed south.
On the journey south the Outcast met many more of his kind, and told them of the mission. And so they too left the ravens and journeyed south to help creatures they did not know.
The journey from the land of the Midnight's Sun was a long one, and so dangerous that only one wolf in a thousand could make such a journey. On the journey the wolf died many times, but since he was of great numbers he lived to walk on. His dry bones decorated the wide deserts of dust, his frozen form became blocked in ice, his drowned form washed up on distant shores far from home. He died, and lived, and each time he became spiritually stronger because while his number reduced his soul reminded whole.
And the journey itself, his quest, his mission, helped to purify his soul. So by the time he arrived at Hidey Wood, he was indeed a single wolf, but with a spirit which preceded his tangled form. So when Issa saw the mangy wolf approach Hidey Wood she thought that the wolf stood no chance against the evil. But she did not know that there were a thousand wolves underneath that ravaged pelt, a thousand wolves of great courage, fortitude and endurance.
And the Great Evil felt the wolf coming, and IT knew of the Outcasts worth, and was afraid.
A great battle ensued, and both the wolf and the Evil fought for over a month, with both sides winning and losing ground in the long struggle. There were attacks and retreats, victories and defeats, and neither gave an inch of ground. Finally, utterly exhausted but still struggling, the wolf drove the entity into the centre of the earth, and rid Hidey Wood of it's foul presence.
The animals of Hidey Wood praised the wolf and held him high for his courage and strength at ridding Hidey Wood of the great evil, and declared him a champion of the land.
But a man heard the singing and cheering for the wolf, and took his weapon in jealous rage and killed the Outcast, thus performing one of the most treacherous deeds of the time following the Firstdark.
Adapted from "Midnight's Sun" by Garry Kilworth by Utlah.
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