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Shibaan MacDuncan
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Shibaan was the obea of the MacDuncan clan.

Description

Fur: Dull tawny


Eyes: Dull, lifeless green[1]

Family

None known, but had many former mates including Donegal

Appearances

Lone Wolf

Clan/Pack

Clan: MacDuncan clan[2]

Pack: Carreg Gaer

Status

Current: Deceased; in the Cave of Souls; Star Wolf

Past: Obea[2]

Shibaan MacDuncan was the former Obea of the MacDuncan clan and the predecessor to Lael. She was the one who took Faolan and other malcadhs before him to their tummfraws. She died from getting crushed by a boulder in an aftershock of an earthquake during the events of Lone Wolf.

Description[]

Shibaan has dull, green eyes, described as being completely devoid of any light, depth, or emotion[1]. She has a "milkless, dry, sterile wind" about her being[3]. Shibaan was once a beautiful tawny wolf, but later her pelt lost its shine, and her teats shrunk to pebble size, which was caused by her inability to bear any pups.

Family[]

Many unknown former mates, including Donegal

History[]

Before the Books[]

Shibaan was once a very popular wolf in the pack. She had beautiful tawny fur, and the females were jealous of her. She took on one mate after another but failed to bear pups. After the third mate, Shibaan moved to a different pack within the same clan. She moved from pack to pack and eventually joined the MacDuncans. She fell in love with a handsome wolf named Donegal, and they mated. When she couldn't have pups with him, her mate suggested her to Duncan MacDuncan to become an Obea. Duncan accepted the offer and gave Shibaan the job as the Obea once it was clear that she was at an advanced age and was sterile or unable to have pups. It was hard for Shibaan to watch Donegal with a new mate who had just borne five healthy pups.

Shibaan took the Fengo Hamish to his tummfraw, an area prone to avalanches, but he survived and returned to his pack.

Lone Wolf[]

From Wikipedia- Dakota, a Grey Wolf - Public Domain, by Retron

Morag is one of the many she-wolves who went by-lang that Shibaan successfully had to find.

Shibaan was the Obea of the MacDuncan clan. She was suited for her job because she'd always find the hiding she-wolves with malcadh pups. A she-wolf called Morag has gone by-lang with her third litter. Determined to keep her unborn pups safe, she had left many tricks that no ordinary wolf, aside from Shibaan, unbeknownst to her, would find, such as urinating in only ice-free parts of the river. Morag gives birth to three pups; two tawny females and a silver male. However, the silver pup was unfortunately born with a splayed paw.

After a few hours, Shibaan finds Morag and her pups. As she takes the silver pup away, she notices a swirl mark on his paw and becomes perturbed. She brings him to an icy riverbank, reasoning that the floodwaters drown him; if not, an owl will pick him up. After leaving the pup, Shibaan and Morag each carry the remaining pups to the clan, where the silver pup's birth is announced.

Later in the novel, she is seen taking a pup with half its paw to a tummfraw. She remembers her past and thinks over and over to herself, "Why me? Why me?" because she cannot bear pups. She wallows in her bitter thoughts, believing she deserved thanks for a job well-done, including taking the Fengo Hamish to his tummfraw. Shibaan places the pup on a moose path and, for the first time, turns around and imagines the pup's death. Appalled, she runs away. However, an aftershock causes a boulder to roll down, crushing her. As her soul leaves her body, she fears whether she'd go to the Cave of Souls or the Dim World for following her duties as an Obea. For once in her life, she finally grieves for all the pups she abandoned. She imagines herself racing to rescue the pup she carried to the moose path, and then a dozen or more of the malcadh pups she left come to greet her in the Cave of Souls. She finds the pup and rejoices when she realizes that she would mother the young pup.

Trivia[]

  • "Shibaan" means "snow" or "white" in Arabic.
    • Alternatively, it may be an odd transliteration of the Irish name "Siobhan."

References and citations[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lone Wolf, page 6
  2. 2.0 2.1 Lone Wolf, page 4
  3. Lone Wolf, page 7
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