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Some of you were getting close, wondering if the wolves had begun domesticating bison but… perhaps you just had it backwards.

I think domestication is a super fascinating (and still not a very well understood) phenomenon in nature. Some animals can, some simply can’t be domesticated (if every animal could be domesticated, fancy people would be riding zebras as much as we ride horses.)

I especially love the (very) fringe anthropological theory that our long-ago pre-sapien ancestors self-domesticated.

In an anthro world, I really wanted to play with the idea of wolves self-domesticating. And so with that--finally--we have unlocked the blue-eye achievement for characters. (Blue eyes do not occur in the wild outside of infancy, but frequently pop up in animals with domestication syndrome.)

So there you have it! The Zenith was right, world is indeed changing, and wolves can (must?) change with it.

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Upcoming Schedule

July - Honestly, it’ll be pretty quiet here in July. I’m going to be spending most of my time finishing the prep to send Volume Two and Oren and the One-Eyed Wolf to the printer. I really appreciate if you want to stick around, of course, no worries if not! I hope to see you back for when the comic resumes!

August - I’ll start posting the new short side comic. This is one I’ve had in the back of my mind since I started work on the very first pages of Oren’s Forge. It’ll shed some light on a character I don’t think anyone’s given a second thought to. However, maybe now in the back of your mind, you’re wondering… Why was there a lone injured bison running around for Swift’s pack to take down, all the way back on page 5?

Part 3 will pick up sometime after that short comic (which should be about 6-8 pages.) If you don’t feel like hanging around here until then, I will definitely post about it on all my socials, etc, when we get going again.

Thank you guys again! Outside of a few side projects here and there, this Patreon is how I’m able to buy groceries, pay bills and have the space to write and work on this story. I feel like a broken record sometimes, thanking you guys, but you’ll have to put up with it. Without your patronage, Oren’s Forge would have died on the vine. I’m grateful it was allowed to flourish, to be read, enjoyed and even printed, which is a precious kind of literary survival. So thank you! Until the next!

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RandomDragon2.0

seeing the self domestication thing, Scree's line about having to bend her nature makes a lot more sense. The Zenith wolves haven't turned into dogs, but they are different than the "wild" wolves. Now thinking about it, her story seems very familiar to a case of someone taking in a wild animal and treating it like a domestic one. Free food, no worries about having to compete with other dangerous animals, but completely unnatural for an animal that was designed to live in a wild world. Part of what makes keeping a wild animal as a pet is there is always a chance of them snapping one day

Reseen Dalls

The zenith pair seems to have a real equal to equal bond. It's fascinating... Though not as much as the fact there's a literal political divide each spread among different groups. In terms of societal development it's a massive jump forward just as much as forging... And foreshadows the massive conflict about to rock the Forge's world.

Heather Curry

Ooh will piebaldism also surface?

teagangavet

Oh-- maybe! I was planning on having the wolves of the Zenith's pack show a bit more spitz/dog adjacent markings overall, so piebald might not be too much of a stretch. I'll have to read about since I don't actually know much about how/when it occurs.