Post by Kenke on Dec 27, 2007 19:27:42 GMT -5
Wolf's Rain takes place in a post-apocalyptic time when much of the world has been ecologically devastated in a form of fimbulwinter and most people live in poverty. A legend is told in the Book of the Moon that wolves are mystical beings who came to the world from a place called Paradise, at the dawn of time and will one day find a way to return to paradise. They must first seek out the Flower Maiden (a being created from the essence of lunar flowers) to guide them to paradise. This legend has nearly been forgotten because wolves were thought to have been hunted to extinction nearly two hundred years earlier. Some wolves, however, have found a way to survive by coexisting with humans and blending into society, using illusions to appear human themselves.
Kiba, Tsume, Hige, and Toboe are four wolves who come together in a decaying domed city, having been drawn there by the scent of lunar flowers. Despite initial misgivings and suspicions they decide to stick together and follow Kiba in his search for the Flower Maiden and Paradise. Their proximity awakens the Flower Maiden, Cheza. Cheza is stolen by Lord Darcia from the laboratory where she was being studied by Cher.
Over the course of the series the wolves travel through a series of environments, finding only small oases of fertility in an increasingly barren and decaying environment that is being further ravaged by the war between the Nobles. The wolves alternately find and lose Cheza while Cher searches for Cheza, Hubb searches for Cher and Quent searches for wolves to hunt with his wolf-dog Blue. Blue eventually encounters Cheza who awakens her wolf-blood, and she leaves Quent, disguising herself as a human, traveling for a time with Kiba's pack and later with Cher. Cher is eventually reunited with Hubb and Quent with Blue.
Kiba, Tsume, Hige, and Toboe are four wolves who come together in a decaying domed city, having been drawn there by the scent of lunar flowers. Despite initial misgivings and suspicions they decide to stick together and follow Kiba in his search for the Flower Maiden and Paradise. Their proximity awakens the Flower Maiden, Cheza. Cheza is stolen by Lord Darcia from the laboratory where she was being studied by Cher.
Over the course of the series the wolves travel through a series of environments, finding only small oases of fertility in an increasingly barren and decaying environment that is being further ravaged by the war between the Nobles. The wolves alternately find and lose Cheza while Cher searches for Cheza, Hubb searches for Cher and Quent searches for wolves to hunt with his wolf-dog Blue. Blue eventually encounters Cheza who awakens her wolf-blood, and she leaves Quent, disguising herself as a human, traveling for a time with Kiba's pack and later with Cher. Cher is eventually reunited with Hubb and Quent with Blue.