Early Days

Rivulet was the bastard son of two prestigious alpha Toskals. To make matters worse, he was the spitting image of the grunt that his mother had an affair with. To cloak the scandal, his birth was masked as a tragic miscarriage, and he was exiled into the depths of the forest. He was given the name Rivulet by his mother before she left him, however he still feels unworthy of this name. Rivulet watched other tribes and picked up a crude understanding of language by mimicking them. His first victim was an alpha Toskal who possessed the same charcoal gray pelt as his mother. He cornered her in the woods and, in the ensuing struggle, took her life. When he is skinning a Toskal, he enters a trance-like state where he is unbothered by pain, and often recounts these moments as though he's watching his life from outside of his own body. Rivulet got the idea to attach the pelt of the first Toskal to himself to conceal a self-inflicted wound.

Over the years, Rivulet roamed aimlessly through the forest, preying on vulnerable, elderly, or isolated Toskals. He had a particular fondness for those who resembled his mother and typically harvested only a toe, fang, or a set of horns from Toskals whose pelts closely resembled his own. His weapon of choice was a dagger he had looted off of one of his victims. He exclusively hunted under the cover of night and swiftly gained a reputation for his killings, even earning the moniker "Toe Snatcher" from the few Toskals who had encountered him and survived (though not without losing a toe or two). Mothers would caution their young ones about "The Snatcher" to deter them from straying too far from home. After kills, he would stash his tools, pelts, and other trophies in a remote cave. He never stayed there for longer than a night, but did return every so often to marvel at his collection. He gained an extensive knowledge on how to properly preserve pelts and enjoyed adorning the walls with bones, claws, fangs.

Adult Life

Growing outraged with Toe Snatcher's ceaseless carnage, hunters from larger tribes organized a manhunt. They tracked the particularly gruesome trail from his most recent kill to his hideaway and set an ambush for his return. When the time was right, they descended upon him in a vicious confrontation. Toe Snatcher managed to take down a few of the hunters, but their numbers quickly overwhelmed him. In a desperate bid for survival, Toe Snatcher abandoned his knife and scrambled out of the cave. He was pursued relentlessly by the hunters, until he found himself cornered at the precipice of a cliff. In his panic, he jumped off of the edge and plummeted to his presumed death.

During the early days of his reign, Rychester stumbled upon the near-lifeless form of Toe Snatcher while patrolling his territory. Rychester made the decision to rescue him and bring him back to his kingdom. After regaining his strength, Toe Snatcher was initially relegated to a servant position. Unaccustomed to the presence of other Toskals, he often found himself overwhelmed and lashed out violently at his fellow servants. Recognizing his propensity for violence, Rychester saw an opportunity to use him more strategically — to discreetly eliminate threats within his kingdom. Rychester would restrict Toe Snatcher to only certain targets, letting Toe Snatcher satiate his bloodlust in secret with low-ranking grunts and loners. With the influx of Toskals into Rychestershire, Toe Snatcher found himself in the perfect hunting ground, where he could settle into a comfortable existence

Fatherhood

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