Now, there were only a few rifts containing them that had been around before their domestication. New rifts never spawned sapient creatures after all—similar ones, sure, but not true reasoning beings. And those rifts would stay under protection to bring out more of the species until they were eventually destroyed to prevent abuse.
Achlys was abnormal for the breed. He was even more of a loner, which could be chalked up to personality rather than anything in particular, but she had done her homework on him. Achlys had been on The Path himself, before deliberately stepping off at Tier 7, after which he vanished for a time.
When he reappeared, he was Tier 15, and had retreated to the edge of the Empire. There, he worked on creating habitable planets with his Talent.
Like most Briarwolves,
