Name: Torin

Gender: male

Age: presently nine years

Breed: 50% Eastern Laika; 50% Elkhound

Appearance

Build: smallish, a bit like Star

Fur colours: light grey, dark grey, silver, white, black

Eye colours: brown

Markings: a roughly triangular marking between base of ear and cheek-fur;dark grey shoulder patches; white markings

Other characteristics: he has a limp, caused by a fight with a human

Relationships

Parents: Urry and Akina

Siblings: unknown

Mate: Roxle

Pups: Melle and Avan

Friends: Balto, Jenna, and the harbour workers in Nome

Enemies: hunger

Character

Personality: Torin enjoys being helpful and active, and is extremely friendly and innocent. He is energetic, caring and kind.

Likes: his pups; running on rooftops; racing with Balto; hunting rats; his family

Dislikes: being thrown/kicked at; being bitten

Dreams: to heal his leg (has a limp in left back leg)

Fears: Bigger male dogs

Skills: good at rat-catching and running

Disabilities: cannot run fast (because of limp)

Basic history: Torin's parents were dogs belonged to an pastor, who had immigrated from his country of Russia to live in Nome.

When aged four years, Torin found himself a job as a rat-catcher for the Nome harbour, killing the vermin in return for food and shelter. He met a she-wolf called Roxle, former leader of a pack until a rival wolf had stolen her rank. Torin and Roxle formed a strong bond and soon became mates.

During the start of another cold winter, the amount of fish became meagre and there wasn't enough food to support Nome's inhabitants. Roxle gave birth to three pups, but did not have enough milk for them all, due to her having a poor quantity of nutrition. One pup died of hunger. To make matters worse, the fishing company closed down for a long period of time, so Torin was not wanted for rat-hunting and he didn't receive his usual pay of feed. All other prey was low and hard to find. During one hunting expeditoin Torin injured one of his back legs and developed a limp.

More to come...

Other/character development: was originally a brown wolf called Guard. His looks and name were changed, and he became a dark grey husky called Tova. Once again he was transformed, into a hybrid called Torin. Name was once considered to be changed to Fritz.  

Home: The Ullock pack

Related to the Balto Universe: he was one of Balto's closest friends, and lives in Nome