Lore:Dead Wolf-Deer

King Dead Wolf-Deer
King Dead Wolf-Deer (bottom)
Race	Bosmer	Gender	Male
Resided in		Valenwood High Rock

King Dead Wolf-Deer also known as the Elder Lord of Teeth and Twenty Antlers was a Bosmer who was transformed into a monster-mer in the fourth century of the First Era by the Wild Hunt. The Wild Hunt transformation turned him into a monster that had wolf, deer, and even crocodilian traits.

The Wild Hunt that Wolf-Deer was a part of came about during the reign of Skyrim High King Borgas, the last member of the Ysgramor Dynasty. Borgas was a staunch supporter of the Prophet Marukh but a conflict was growing between the Empire and the Camoran Dynasty. Borgas set off for Cyrodiil to urge a joint war with Skyrim against the Bosmer. Before he could get there however, he was slaughtered at the hands of King Dead Wolf-Deer.

Dead Wolf-Deer later on in history was known to stalk the Lynpar March. Sometime before his death in 3E 320, Emperor Uriel Septim VI and his half-sister Morihatha traversed the Lynpar March where they encountered the aggressive Dead Wolf-Deer who killed all of their royal escorts.

After the cataclysms of the Nerevarine Prophecy circa 3E 427, some accounts spoke of a trial put on to judge Vivec of his potential crimes. These accounts claim Dead Wolf-Deer still lived and resided in High Rock and that Vivec had someone retrieve one of his antlers in order to summon Azura.

Notes

• The Ring of the Wild Hunt artifact is comprised of five pieces, one of these pieces, the Face of the Wolf Beast has been theorized to depict Dead Wolf-Deer.
• A recitation of the Five Hundred Companions amalgamates the slaughter of King Borgas by Dead Wolf's hands with the deeds of King Wulfharth. In this variation, Borgas is slain by the power shouts of the "Lord of the Wulf's Hart" (or "Wulf's Heart"), then "monsters of the changewinds" arrive to claim his soul.

References

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