I am staring thoughtfully at the "fusion" square on my trope bingo card and, uh, I might get back to you on this later, fic-wise. After I finish translating the relevant bits of the Oath into Latin.

What's-his-face the Evil Druid is obviously being puppetted by the Lone Power (as are, you know, other higher-ups in some of the other fighty tribes), that's not even a question. Half the reason most of the Wolves are up there at all is very extended errantry...