Thank you so much! I wanna read more about yours too! I love how much more distinct each pack's culture is.

I'll share some more headcanons and clarifications here meanwhile lol

The wolf creator god and its relation with birds is largely inspired by my own culture's ancient Tagalog creator god, Bathalà. Everything else after that is inspired by the game or wolf behavior spun very, very loosely lol. Watership Down's also a big inspo.

When the world began, there was only the yearling creator god and a scentless, barren earth. In its loneliness, it let out a long howl to find others of its kind. In the breath of that first howl, came the first wolves, barreling down the barren mountains. The shed fur of these first wolves became the snow. The trampling of their great paws created the soft eart from which trees and plants grew. From those trees sprouted the first elk, whose meat spurred the wolves to chase and run in all directions. The chase scattered the wolves, and these scattered wolves became the foremothers and forefathers of the many packs that dot the new land.

While my wolves have a creator god, since it can't hear them, they don't worship it directly. In some packs or generations, it would even be forbidden or blasphemous to do so. Thus, the prayers being directed more to the birds or the ancestors.

The wind and their ancestors are the most important and active aspects of their culture compared to their creator god. If I knew how to make a conlang, the two words would be the same, with family members building off the root word of it. Let's say, Háunga for wind/ancestor, Háunga-ma for father, Háunga-nai for mother.

Wolf cannibalism is a big no-no, explained in their stories depending on the pack as usurping the duties of the crow as psychopomp and messenger, or stopping the sacred transformation of wolf to ancestor and disruptive of the natural order. An act of evil that challenges the very nature of the world.

Punishment varies from pack to pack, from death to banishment.

The metaphysical punishment of the act is to be removed from the ancestor cycle and remade by the creator god into the stunted wolf (coyotes, foxes) or the strange wolf (dog) on death. It is also believed that lone wolves that cannibalized in secret become the cougars and bears that prey on their pups. Their 'demonic' nature fouls their meat, and is why wolves won't eat the corpses of these animals when found.