Mayev

Mayev was a Moon Garou hunter, recorded as the first in Ashenfall to wear red dragonhide.^[1] She made the armour from the remains of Vakar, a red dragon she had raised from a hatchling and considered a friend, following a garou tradition of wearing the hide and bones of a fallen warrior as a mark of honour.^[2]

As a cub, Mayev was restless and often wandered away from her camp to explore the surrounding dunes, much to her elder's frustration.^[3] On one of these excursions she entered a cavern deep underground, where she found a red dragon dying beside its newborn hatchling.^[4] Mayev took the orphaned hatchling out into the desert and raised it in secret, bringing it food and keeping it company until it came to regard her as a companion.^[5][6] She named it Vakar, a name the journals translate as "the flame-wrought song".^[7] As the two began to hunt together they brought down larger prey, and Mayev earned the respect of her tribe by sharing what they killed.^[8] Mayev and Vakar were later attacked by the KotHaar. Vakar's dragonfire had little effect on the lava-born creatures, and Mayev's arrows could not pierce their obsidian bodies.^[9][10] Overwhelmed and unable to defend themselves, the pair were saved only when Vakar carried Mayev clear of the fighting, taking grievous wounds in the process.^[11][12] He died of his injuries soon after.^[13] Following garou custom, Mayev buried his heart, and from his scales and bones she made armour and a bow.^[14]