About Mythical Ahklut in the Ice Age Shifters World
In Dire Wolf Wanted, Ice Age Shifters Book 4, the heroine is Rayne Chakal, a covert agent and a prehistoric dire wolf shifter, which makes her very rare. (See my posts on prehistoric bears, lions, and Rayne's sister, also a dire wolf.) The hero of the story is Arvik Inuktan. Actually, because he's a spy, he's gone by many names, but that's his current one. Arvik is even rarer—a mythological shifter who shares his soul with two other forms, a wolf and an orca. I took inspiration from Inuit and Inupiat legends about mythical ahklut to create Arvik's people in the Ice Age Shifters® world.
Mythical Ahklut Were Shifters
The First Peoples at the top of the North American continent were as varied and complex as the native tribes farther south. Geographic isolation created language and cultural variation. However, they knew about other bands and shared legends and beliefs. The most interesting of these is that many animals have inua, spirits with dual natures who can take other forms, including human. In other words, shapeshifters. 
