There you have it, the end of Oren’s Forge Volume Two: Incursion!

The story will continue right where we left off; on Patreon new pages for Volume 3 will begin December 2nd, and on the public posting sites sometime in late February, 2025.

www.patreon.com/teagangavet

=== Volume Two Wrap-Up ===

I saw a couple comments speculating if the wolves had begun to domesticate bison but perhaps they just had it a bit backwards.

Domestication is a really fascinating (and not entirely understood) phenomenon in nature. Some animals can domesticate and some simply cannot. (Zebras are a prime example of an animal that cannot be domesticated, despite many concentrated efforts.)

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.

I have a longer wrap-up for Volume Two over here, as a free/public post on my Patreon. Check it out if you want!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/orens-forge-two-114899368

Anyway, thanks again for being on this journey with me. I appreciate you all as readers and I hope you enjoy where we go next!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication

** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4096361