Lief Sarvif

Once a slave, Lief killed his master rather than allow himself to be sold to the druids for ritual sacrifice. He then fled into the wilds where, as luck would have it, he was bitten by a werewolf. Lief soon learned to control his own inner beast. Freeing other slaves, he created a pack of werewolves and settled on a small island southwest of the mainland. He has since built a small army from rescued slaves and other likeminded individuals. Twenty times the Thrull clans have sent a warlord to put down his rebellion and that many warlords have died in the attempt. Lief has declared his sanctuary free of the Prismatic Circle’s influence.
While he holds no love for the Kandarians, Lief is shrewd enough to use their help to maintain his personal war. To date, he has opened channels with the Redclaw faction in Kandar for a mutual defense treaty.
The name of Lief Sarvif is known across Thrull and Kandar, and increasingly in the lands south of Valika. The story of this lycanthrope insurgent is told and retold in the north, but whether as a tale of warning or a story of hope depends on the listener.

From Thrall to Wolf.

Captured during a Thrull raid into Kandar, Lief was a young laborer brought into service as a thrall to a small Clan Sýr outpost. Assigned a bond term of working rocky farm fields just south of the circle of shadow, Lief and his fellow thralls were subjected to backbreaking working conditions and the malicious will of their liege lord, Thallas—a cruel overseer who routinely ignored the orders of the wardens of his village to treat his thralls equitably. When Lief made a stand against this treatment, Thallas promised to name him an agitator and send him to be sacrificed beneath the Sentinel Trees. In response, Lief attacked Thallas with the same whip the overseer used to threaten thralls, and Lief fled into the Grensfal foothills.
Exhausted by his flight and near starvation, Lief was saved by a most strange turn of events. Attacked by a huge wolf under the full moon and left for dead, he felt the power of lycanthropy coursing through him, transforming and healing him, and granting him the strength to survive. Over a barely remembered year, Lief learned to master his curse, and swore to use the power granted to him by fate to fight back against all who built their lives on denying freedom to others. Returning to the village where he had been held, he tore Thallas’s throat out and freed the thralls still there. Then he invited those who would fight with him to accept his bite, and Lief’s pack was born.

Lord of the Pack.

Having claimed the name “Sarvif” for himself from the title granted to the chief of the hated Clan Sýr, Lief has built up a werewolf pack some hundred strong over his exile. Most are thralls freed from servitude during bloody raids on villages across Thrull. However, a good number of the pack’s disciples were once free clanfolk seeking an excuse to turn away from the blood rites of the Prismatic Circle.
Using stolen longboats, the pack moves freely along the coasts of Grarjord and Thrull from a well-defended island within the Teeth. Nearly two dozen raids against the island by smaller clans seeking to reclaim freed thralls have ended disastrously, but the will to make a larger response remains elusive. Clan Völgr’s leaders maintain that because Lief escaped from Clan Sýr’s bond, it is up to the leaders of Sýr to put his rebellion down. But the Clan Sýr chief Brokyr Bladesinger has called Lief’s actions a direct response to the policies of the Prismatic Circle—policies that some believe gives Brokyr a certain amount of empathy for the pack’s goals—and has formally invited the druids to make their own response.

A Free Clan.

The success of Lief Sarvif’s raids have surprised him almost as much as they’ve shaken the clanholds the werewolves have routed. And this has put the pack leader in a position of uncertainty as regards his future moves. Many of Lief’s followers have already begun to clamor for him to declare himself the leader of a new clan, potentially drawing in other minor clans who chafe against the power of the Prismatic Circle. With these alliegiances, the werewolves could forge ties with the clans of Kandar that might remake Thrull. But although Lief has already entered into discussions with the Redclaw druids of Kandar for formal support of his campaign against the Prismatic Circle, he is wary of raising the stakes of his battle if open clan warfare is the likely result.