Talk:Alpha Wolf (Skyrim)

In nearly 200 hours of playing Skyrim I never encountered the common Wolf in anything other than black, so I thought the golden/brown coloring seen on this page's image (and the wolf diorama seen during loading screens) was exclusive to the Alpha Wolf. (Consider that most other wildlife creatures in Skyrim have only one color per name -- e.g. black Bear vs. brown Cave Bear vs. white Snow Bear.)  So I was quite surprised when a pack of three Wolves in golden/brown fur showing up around my Windstad Manor in Hjaalmarch. Whoops, that feels embarrassing....

Now I kinda wonder what determines whether a wolf appears in its black or brown color variation -- I spotted another brown pack out in the Reach not too long after cleaning up the ones around my manor, but some time after that I found a pack of ordinary black wolves in the Reach, not a brown one to be seen. Stratelier (talk) 05:10, June 8, 2015 (UTC)