A-Pac

A-Pac (pronounced A-Poc) is a fictional character that originated in the multiplayer online game (MPOG) Immortal Night. He is best known for his time and endeavors across online media. The character was cast as part of the lycan (werewolf) species during his debut on Immortal Night and was created November 15, 2009 by American player Adam S. who before that time was writing and illustrating his 4-year original series Chronicles of the High King, a vast contrast to his writing for what would be the most complex character he had ever created to that point.

Life Online
A-Pac mostly has held a measure of influence during the storied 3 years of existence in the online gaming community. He holds an identification number of 172102, making him one of the "originals" on the Immortal Night player roster. Appropriately suiting his "originals" status, A-Pac is one of the oldest members having reached a time of 1000 days of membership as of August 10, 2012. To a certain extent, A-Pac holds respect for his time spent as part of the Immortal Night community and is well-received by most players he interacts with. During his early years, the character of A-Pac has been recognized for his great sense of humor, contagiously-high spirits and feats of heroism. It is readily noticed that A-Pac does not behave entirely modern. Both character and writer hold passions for a more classical and perhaps theatrical style of speaking which contrasts their 25 years of age (in appearance). However, this style rarely changes during interaction with other players/characters.

The World of A-Pac
The world of A-Pac was roughly inspired from the dark, gloomy backdrop seen in the movie series Underworld. Early on, A-Pac's life experiences included mostly a world of unending violence, bloodshed, rage and unforgiving elements both in the wilderness and the modern settlements of humans. During the first month of his November 2009 debut, A-Pac's past was written with inspiration again derived from Underworld elements. A-Pac was a prisoner and experimental slave to a sadistic geneticist (ideally patterned from the scientist seen working for the Underworld Lycan gang). He spent several years in brutal captivity as part of dedicated research for creating a superior genetically-altered line of fighting werewolves.

Appearance/Characteristics and Personality
A-Pac is described as "towering" and possesses great muscularity. Originally, A-Pac was written as standing 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m) and weighing 275 lbs (124 kg). This was later revised after A-Pac's spouse (and creator's online girlfriend) suggested it was too much weight that made him appear bulky. A-Pac's later writings describe him standing between 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and weighing a slimmer 220 lbs (100 kg), dropping 55 lbs (24 kg). A-Pac bore sizeable features including "bearish" hands and often time had to duck his head under doorjams and shower heads. He possesses strong masculine features which included his voice as "booming" especially while laughing or howling. His skin is naturally olive-colored and his hair transists between light and dark brown and is often written as being "mane-like" or simply referred to as a mane. In werewolf form he alternates between bipedal and quadrupedal postures and sports a dark brown, gray and black fur coating. Most distinctive are the black circles around his eyes and a black streak down his snout, almost making a mask upon his face. Standing in bipedal posturing, A-Pac measures 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m) and weighs roughly 310 lb (141 kg). In both human and werewolf forms, A-Pac bears the brand of the prison facility he was held captive at on the back of his neck. He has been able simply to cover it up with his hair. A-Pac also wears a wooden necklace with a wolf head carving he made during his boyhood.

A-Pac is also known for his expressive eyes which are naturally hazel but transfer through various colors indicative to his elemental alignment which is whatever he is surrounded by or standing in or on, ie if he is in a snow or icy environment his eyes will either be fully-white or ice-blue. If he is in a heated or fiery environment, A-Pac will be red-orange which could also account for his temper.

A-Pac has been a lively individual who possesses an engaging personality and often time shares in the laughter of friends and loved ones. He has a proud spirit and seldom passes up a chance to show off his great strength and heroics.

Captivity/Experimentation/Escape/Freedom
Before the horrors that befell him as a victim of genetic experiments, A-Pac was a freelance soldier. He fought in several private military groups and participated in numerous "secret wars" across the western and eastern regions of [Europe] before his eventual capture while on a mission.

Experimentation
It was A-Pac who became the leading specimen in these experiments on wolf kind and was thus chosen to be the pack leader during field tests and live combat action. During this time, even as a chosen pack leader, A-Pac was still subject to relentless training and torture so that he would remain savage, bloodthirsty and overtly agressive, ready to lay waste to all that stood before him.

Escape
A-Pac's deliverance arrived in the form of a violent prison break in the facility where he was held. The results of the bloody escape led to A-Pac's freedom. Racing headlong into the wild, the instincts of the escaping lycan never allowed him to ever look back upon that place of evil.

Freedom
Once back in the wild, A-Pac gradually began to regain most of his former self, as the effects of the mind-altering toxins and brutal combat-driven imprinting programs wore off. Afterwards, A-Pac mostly resigned to living between the mountains and in the deep woodlands in obscure solitude.

Meeting Different Species
During [his debut month in November 2009], his time alone the wild, A-Pac crossed paths with an intriguing new group of lycans and vampires also joined by a sparse number of humans and one witch. At the time, this group had sought to establish a new home in the woodlands, the same woods in which A-Pac roamed throughout and knew quite well. It was A-Pac who led this group to an area long-abandoned and was occupied by only a single, 2-story house left vacant years earlier. With A-Pac's assistance, the party renovated the house to their specific comforts and lived together in peaceful accord for most of that month.

During the months of November and December 2009, several dangers were encountered by A-Pac and his friends. Most of these involved subduing hunting parties led by humans and other times the occasional and often time aggressive visits by rival immortals. After much contention, A-Pac and the other supernatural beings experienced a time of peace.

Domestic Life
While A-Pac [in story] reunited with his long-lost brother [Iceyfire, a fellow American midwestern player], he also embarked on two key romantic paths that would shape his growing domestic life with this new family he was now part of.

Early on, A-Pac pursued the affections of group member Dysis, a human who had somewhat wandered into the territory of the immortals but quickly found friends among them, including A-Pac. And while Dysis openly accepted the alluded partnership with A-Pac, the young lycan strayed from his commitment to Dysis and thus led to their break-up. However, the admirably-mature and understanding young beauty forgave A-Pac for his "never being in love with her" and opted towards being a good friend. Their friendship would remain an invaluable asset for A-Pac during later times when he would seek advice on further attempts at relationships with women.

Romance with Emme
Most likely, the most complex and intensely-written and portrayed relationship in the life of A-Pac would involve group member Emme (original player name emmettsgirl2322, shortened to Emme for clarification purposes).

Emme was one of the younger members of the party that A-Pac settled with as she was only 19 years of age (also portrayed by coincidentally by a 19 yr old gamer who joined Nov. 2009) After having broken his romantic link with Dysis due to his relationship with the vampire Zaiav, that yielded A-Pac's first official child, a son named Kol. A-Pac, withdrawn and burdened by personal guilt, had prepared to leave the group until Emme convinced him to stay. A-Pac could never understand why she insisted that he remain in the group. Clearly, there was an attraction towards this gentle giant that Emme could not deny then. It was a second chance that led to the eventual marriage of A-Pac and Emme sometime during that wintery 2009 year. Recorded chronologically, the couple became parents of five children, beginning first with their son Rynn Michael Pac being the eldest. Their next four include twins Shadow (son) and Kayla. The last two children are twin daughters Camilla Belle Pac and Sophie Grace Pac. Emme readily adopted A-Pac's child Kol, who became the eldest of A-Pac's children.

A-Pac only experienced less than half of his children's formative years growing towards maturity. He would not see them again for several years as he had experienced growing estrangement from their mother as time went on. Occasionally, he did return to visit but only very briefly as much had changed (refer to Dark Pac link). With four years having passed in the game, story-wise, A-Pac's children with Emme have all grown to adulthood, living out their own lives.

Division
By nearly the end of December 2009, the family, the group A-Pac had cared greatly for had virtually disintegrated as tempers flared and problems involving leadership and rules ensued. The lycan found himself in the middle of the disputes, virtually helpless to support any sides of the on-going arguments. Because of A-Pac's unwillingness to support anyone's view of anything in question, this led to heavy discord between he and his wife, Emme. Ultimately unable to quell the in-fighting, A-Pac opted to leave the group until matters were sorted among themselves. It was a decision his wife did not at all approve of and thus assumed to be a poor excuse to ignore his duties to the group. Truthfully, A-Pac never claimed to be the leader or part of the leading aspect of the party. (Technically in the gameplay, Emme held the role of leader of the group. A-Pac merely acted more as an occasional advisor which he cites was not often as few consulted him for any advice).

Online Issues
On the game site, A-Pac was involved with a transaction with his brother involving holding his brother's money for him for a brief time and then returning it after his brother made his necessary in-game adjustments. Admittedly not familiar with all of the rules of the games, the A-Pac account was "Pitted" [in-game suspension or lock-down, etc] for 300 days (with a release date sometime that following year) because of this in-game rule violation. Despite all attempts of explaining the matter, in-game moderators insisted that he had no excuse for the alleged "rule breaking" and left the A-Pac account on suspension for the full term. However, the character was still seen on the in-game chat site before eventually being shut down altogether to "officially" ban the account from in-game activity. Admittedly, attempts to recreate the A-Pac character as another account were also negated and "pitted" and finally A-Pac virtually vanished for several months.

Aftermath
While still serving a full 300-day sentence in The Pit, A-Pac discovered that Emme divorced him without warning and had promptly remarried. This served as no motivation for A-Pac to get out of incarceration any sooner. The life he knew was utterly swept away without further consideration. Most of his friends and family (siblings) had moved on and the group of vampire and lycan friends he knew and loved effectively broke apart on better or worst terms.

Return and Departure
After his early release in May 2010, A-Pac worked mostly to regain a footing in a world vastly changed since his incarceration. Grim-spirited, blank-white-eyed and strongly indifferent, A-Pac sided with no houses or allied himself with anyone. He was alone and continued to remain as such for some time. His philosophy was to leave the feuds and discord to those it mattered most to. He would have no part of any of it, his destiny would be to roam the world's lands alone and unburdened with duties to others.

Brief Romantic Attempts
It is natural for any soul with a heartbeat of passion to pursue happiness with another. A-Pac did indeed find this happiness with an enchanting dark-haired beauty named Jasmine, who could be described as "...a princess truly out of a dream". Alas the aching heart of A-Pac still pined for some sort of closure with his ex-wife Emme. Perhaps it was his desire to somehow be forgiven and once more accepted by Emme that ruined his chances of creating something more with his new lady. Ultimately A-Pac would understand how he damaged his chances at this when he angered his new love by not wanting to marry her when she was willing to. As expected, the door of opportunity closed and A-Pac was left once more alone.

Retirement and Disappearance
Having sank into mind-crippling depression, A-Pac declared his retirement from public view and vanished into deep obscurity beginning in the cold month of December 2010. He would not be seen or heard from again for nearly 6 months.

The Return of A-Pac 2011
In May, A-Pac's return onto the immortal stage sparked a high emotional reception from friends and family that missed him greatly. Never alluding to how long he could stay in their lives, he simply promised he would stay for as long as there was a place and need for him.

Rekindling old romances
A-Pac did seek out fair Jasmine once more. To his surprise A-Pac discovered Jasmine was very accepting of his return to her. However, as that heated summer pressed on it would herald the arrival of a previous man in Jasmine's life that also held a place in the immortal beauty's heart. A-Pac, with somber spirits accepted the apparent fact that he had returned too late to attempt to renew a future happiness with the taken-Jasmine.

A Vow
After this disheartening experience, A-Pac vowed he would never again fall in love with another woman whether in hopes of marriage or as a simple mate. To an extreme extent he sealed his vow by severing both his ring fingers from his hands. He later regenerated these parts but kept his vow.

Many Names, Many Faces Same Spirit
It is true, like most other long-lived beings, A-Pac has undergone various changes in name and appearance. Most recognizable are the following names.


 * High Ranger47 – The Hooded watchman of the woods and back country highways.


 * Adamanteus – A more enigmatic powerhouse of unspecified mythological origins. A short-lived stint while under this name but perhaps a more light-hearted time in his life as well. The gods and other mythical beings knew him well as a master of arms and weapons-making.


 * Dark Pac – A brooding, ‘dark-spirited’ variant of A-Pac who after his first and most devastating divorce easily influenced his choice to wander alone and estranged, wearing a suit of demonic armor which in its own sadistic way was very much alive, proving to be his only companion on the night roads.


 * Amon D. NoLander – A more Eastern-themed identify, seeking separation from all he knew in a past life for their unresolved quarrels and biased accounts of him. This would honestly pave the way to the return to life as A-Pac.


 * Apac NoLander – Adapting the name of NoLander which simply in his own words meant he had No home; No family; and No love. NoLander also referred to the other fact that he did not settle long in an area as there was no need to without any spouse or children to support.


 * A-Pac – Returning to simply being known as A-Pac. This is his name he entered the Immortal stage with and also the name he would keep for a while yet.
 * Arn Savage – Further discord between A-Pac and his ex-wife Emme inspired his abandoning his name and thus become Arn Savage, aka The Savage One. In this form, he took a less eloquent and conventional form including his speech which was more modern than he had ever been. He took on more of a biker look, darkening his hair to straight black, isolating all color from his eyes, leaving only voids of pure white, his skin alternated sporadically between pale and pigmented. Arn also wore chains on occasion before ridding himself of them. He wore beaten old jeans and black biker boots. Most notably was his weapon of choice being either single or twin bone claws from either forearm. This was also the time in which he agreed to marry and thus became the husband of Maddie Savage on August 25, 2011.


 * A-Pac Wolflander - During 2013 when A-Pac remarried, he chose a name for he and his wife Mercy to share. Creating the name Wolflander identified his family and the territory they lived in. Obviously, A-Pac is the patriarch of the Wolflander clan as he is a father of three daughters with Mercy and a grandfather of two granddaughters.

Closing Age of A-Pac
In August of 2011, under a new identity, this once lone beast of war found himself married to a bright-eyed hopeful newcomer who sought to at last find happiness as much as he did. But A-Pac harbored an ill feeling that one day soon there would be a time in which he would not return home, not for lack of love between man and wife but because fate and time willed his end. And in knowing so, it was in December where he let go of his married life so that she may rediscover a time of happiness.

The Last Journey with the White Wolf
A-Pac saw his own end on this plane of existence growing near. His senses, eternally tied to the ever-changing elements around him, gave him signs that this end would be in the cold winter of 2011 wherein he would make his preparations to meet with his destiny alone and without any arms or protection. He foresaw the enigmatic and ominous arrival of the specter known to his mind as the White Wolf, which would escort him to the Beyond. A-Pac would however need to meet this Wolf in the high mountains where they would at last begin that fateful journey. The time-honored lycan would simply choose a wild-bred horse to carry him as far as the mountain. By this time, the flowing, wild mane of A-Pac which was alive with the brilliance of sand or brown hues became bleached with time, showing a void-like tint of white and pale blond. His eyes once hazel were pale gray and at last he waited for the White Wolf to come. In his naked presence he reverted to his truest form, standing upright in bipedal fashion, declaring his readiness to meet his Closing Age with a haunting howl across the slopes of the great mountain.

Beyond the Earthly Veil of Seeing
In his mind he recalled what he had always seen in this hour: White Seas and the Light of the Eternal Sun; across the sea there would be a shore and further inland there he would find fields of Silver-Gray grass and a White Sun. There, in that place would be no distinction between races or species, no boundaries of Color, no borders to protect nor families or houses to guard. Here would be nothing but a state of Eternity to be free of all toils and be at peace with no need for restoration, no need for food or drink, no need to raise claw or fang in defense or in anger. This would be the haven that would house the soul of one of its oldest sons. This was the time of one who was born to the earth as one of its more faithful sons of Nature, now marking the Closing of an Age--the Age of A-Pac.

The Synopsis of 2012: Adventures, Rekindled Friendships and Romances
The sum of 2012 is best recorded from the latter months beginning from the 2012 to the closing winter months. A-Pac met a young lady (Player name Smile) sometime during that summer of 2012. They cultivated a friendship which later turned into a blossoming relationship. It yielded a child between them, a son named Aiden born on January 1, 2013. 2012 was a year that was spent mostly seeing A-Pac involved heavily in being with his friends. It could be surmised that 2012 was a slower-paced, peaceful and given to an extensive focus on domestic life. It was a time spent with Smile, that showed A-Pac what it means to love another and love after a period in his life when he had turned from the idea. In early 2013, between January and February, A-Pac and Smile separated but remain friends afterwards. A-Pac resigned to being an adventurer once more delving deeply into exploration and combat.

Freelance Errant, Marriage and Domestic Life (2013-Present)
A-Pac mostly immersed himself in further adventures, running with various packs and encountering fantastic creatures of benevolent and malevolent allegiance. He briefly joined a few houses during the summer of 2013 before going alone once more. On May 30 of that year, A-Pac married longtime friend and secret admirer Mercy. The two welcomed a daughter named Marley during July. A-Pac later became a godfather and a uncle to additional relatives. Other relatives A-Pac inherited include daughters Andrea and Catarina Wolflander. Between January and February of 2014, A-Pac met one of his grandchildren, a granddaughter named starfire22.

Wolflander Dynasty (2013-Present)
It is well-known that A-Pac is the founder and patriarch of the Wolflander wolf clan. He went on to establish with his son-in-law Mr. Reaper, the House "The Reaping Clan of Wolflanders". The House features a handful of family members and friends. A-Pac, along with wife Mercy Wolflander are parents of three daughters and two sons and the grandparents of two granddaughters and a grandson. A-Pac and Mercy later inherited a second son during April of 2014.

Over the course of 2015, many of A-Pac's (online) children disappeared and the resulting number stands at one active daughter. His wife Mercy also disappeared during August of 2014 and currently remains inactive in Immortal Night. After an extended period of waiting, A-Pac came to the difficult decision to divorce. This decision was finalized during late 2015. He has however stated to friends and confidants that he is more than willing to reconcile with Mercy should she return. His remaining daughter with Mercy also elected to "move on" and start a family of her own. A-Pac accepted this and made clear that he would always remain her father and be there whenever she needed him.

Overall, A-Pac's family is a large, extensive clan of relations close and distant. And while not all of his children have been born in wedlock, he has always done his very best to extend equal love to all his descendants. A-Pac also maintains an open door policy with his mates no matter what as he always keeps in the mind the happiness of his children. A-Pac also enjoys very much acting as an uncle figure to the young lycans he meets, always willing to spend time with them and provide insight and advice whenever asked.

During late 2015, A-Pac inherited another spawn by the name of Li'l Fire. It could be described he has a father role in this relationship as he is often treated to frequent games and pranks by Fire. Both A-Pac and his current mate often look after this girl and provide plenty of love and attention towards her. In Spring 2016, A-Pac also inherited two sons, first being Bunny, unexpectedly the first son of A-Pac to be of a different species as he is what A-Pac might describe as a "were-hare". A-Pac's second son during spring 2016 came in the form of the vampiric young blood named Alex Hitman. Soon after, A-Pac became once more a grandfather via Bunny and Li'l Fire starting their own families. A-Pac shares this current family with a woman named Soul War Thor who he affectionately referred to as "His Soul".

The Lore of A-Pac
The origins of A-Pac includes a great amount of mythical elements. This has been designated as the mythology or lore of A-Pac.

Origins
A-Pac is the son of two free-spirited werewolf parents. His father was a great warrior from the far northern hills; and his mother was a gentle-natured beauty from the grassy, green, valley plains. When A-Pac's wandering father met his mother, he settled in the valley with his mother. Soon after, in the gentler autumn month of November, they two welcomed the birth of A-Pac.

After A-Pac's birth, the family moved up north to the homeland of A-Pac's father. They lived there for six or seven years. During this time, A-Pac grew up in the harsh wintery climate and learned early on about survival and developing raw strength. However, his mother yearned for the warmer weather of her home territory and thus the family returned south. Around the age of seven or eight, A-Pac and his parents welcomed the birth of a second child, born again during November. This was A-Pac's youngest sister Lisa. A-Pac's father staked out a huge stretch of territory to make their home, including their house in the forest, some considerable open fields for the children to play in and even a pond.

Alternate Stories and Timelines
Some accounts describe A-Pac as being actually the second eldest as there was at least one other son before him. However, A-Pac only met this elder brother briefly before his apparent disappearance. Since that time, A-Pac assumed the role of elder brother and foundation for the siblings to rely on. Sometime however, A-Pac inherited at least two other siblings, including a sister and a brother who may have been born roughly before or after him. For certain, Lisa remains the youngest of his sisters and siblings. In the accounts told in the Immortal Night spin-off series of A-Pac's life and adventures, Beyond Immortal: Sagas of the Wolflands, A-Pac is pack-brother to Clyde Tallfoot, a northern-bred werewolf.

Other accounts speak of a time during A-Pac's boyhood years in which he was tutored by several wise individuals. The first of the these were the people of his father's homeland. In the north, A-Pac learned of metal work and mining. The most significant teacher in A-Pac's life was an ancient Cyclops oracle named Creor. It was from Creor, whom A-Pac learned the most. Under Creor's guidance, A-Pac learned the ways of the ancient warriors before him and of the age-long heritage of his werewolf species. In the alternate tale of A-Pac, entitled Beyond Immortal, A-Pac is described as having been an orphan werewolf found at early childhood with three other wolf cubs by Creor. The same cyclops went on to raise and teach these cubs, creating great warriors and wizards out of the four. In that alternate story, A-Pac lived with wolf cubs Paladante, (the wizard and scholar of the group), Lukuy (a fighter and powerhouse werewolf) and Toromi (a quiet powerhouse). A-Pac and Lukuy became the only two survivors after an extended period of time after the four adoptive brothers parted ways upon reaching adulthood.

In the Beyond Immortal spin-off of A-Pac's character and adventures, A-Pac was a wandering warrior-wolf who eventually came into leading a volunteer army of werewolves. In time, he became an undisputed werewolf warlord, commanding a nations of wolf warriors. Because he left the world of Immortal Night, an entirely new world was created that introduced a host of varied supernatural beings and creatures. He went on to marry a Princess and would later become a King of Wolves.

Trademark Characteristics
A-Pac often tends to tape his hands like a boxer or street fighter. This also helped with his grip capability. He also would wear a wooden necklace of a wolf carved from his childhood when he learned how to craft items from wood. A-Pac is highly-carnivorous and often substitutes full meals with custom-made strips of jerky from deer, elk, bear and other meaty creatures. A-Pac is known for carrying an arsenal of melee weapons, including swords, knives, telescoping spears and lances, and axes both throwing and battle axes.

A-Pac is quite vocal in combat. His offensive arsenal includes an earth-splitting howl that potentially ignites flammable and conbustible elements when utilized. A-Pac signals his family and friends with his howls, including warning howls, mournful howls, battle-howls and victory-howls. A-Pac prides himself on his strength and skills, including competing in strength contests and sporting tournaments. He is highly-dedicated to fitness as he will religously lifts inhuman amounts of weight.