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Sixty-Six Wolves

Sixty-Six Wolves is the in-universe cartoon that the Bazaar children won’t shut up about. It’s also, in practice, one of the cleanest pieces of world-building in the game — a globally-popular Luzian anime-style show whose merchandise (specifically the Wolf Cups) shows up as collectible items you can actually carry.

The two most obvious fans are the Sword-Wielding Child and the Transfixed Child in the Bootleg Bazaar of Quisach. You will hear about Sixty-Six Wolves before you hear about half the Whole Sick Crew.

Why a fake anime matters to the game

Two reasons.

  1. It locates the world’s pop culture. Sixty-Six Wolves is Luzian. The kids in a Portofiran bazaar are watching it dubbed. That tells you La Luz dominates not just the geopolitical board but the cultural one — its cartoons are the cartoons everyone watches, the way American kids’ shows worked in our timeline. The Bazaar’s Luzian customer wave under Tempo del Sur’s rule and the Luzian cartoon on every kid’s t-shirt are the same phenomenon.
  2. The Wolf Cups exist as items. Each Wolf Cup (Critical, Dream, Eager, Placid, Stubborn, Tyrant) is a piece of show merchandise you can collect, with at least one quest — Collect Them All — built around the set.

The show isn’t a flavour detail. It’s a load-bearing piece of the merchandise economy in Quisach.

Overview[]

Sixty-Six Wolves follows the story of Nabia, a young girl. The angel Canopus cursed Nabia in retaliation for an unspecified past incident involving her mother, forcing Nabia to serve Canopus as his warrior as he wages war against the other angels, three of which have been identified as Deneb, Rasalhague, and Polaris. The curse endowed Nabia with sixty-six chambers in her heart, each of which contains a powerful wolf with a unique personality who will emerge to battle the angels. All of Nabia’s loved ones are also forever trapped inside her heart by the curse, and if she does not keep the wolves content, they will devour her loved ones.

The show’s storyline is divided into multiple arcs, with each arc revealing a new subset of the titular sixty-six wolves over the course of multiple episodes. It has been dubbed in multiple languages for international audiences. The show is popular among both children and adults, as is its extensive array of collectible merchandise.

Merchandise[]

  • Critical Wolf Cup

  • Dream Wolf Cup

  • Eager Wolf Cup

  • Placid Wolf Cup

  • Stubborn Wolf Cup

  • Tyrant Wolf Cup

  • Tyrant Wolf’s Flaming Claymore

List of Wolves[]

The Sword-Wielding Child is able to recite the names of 59 of the 66 wolves from the show. According to the Transfixed Child, the remaining seven wolves have yet to be revealed because the show has not completed its run.

  • Bitter Wolf

  • Clement Wolf

  • Conformist Wolf

  • Critical Wolf

  • Cunning Wolf

  • Dread Wolf

  • Dream Wolf

  • Dyspeptic Wolf

  • Eager Wolf

  • Ecstatic Wolf

  • Fear Wolf

  • Forlorn Wolf

  • Furtive Wolf

  • Gentle Wolf

  • Grateful Wolf

  • Greedy Wolf

  • Grieving Wolf

  • Guilty Wolf

  • Hasty Wolf

  • Hysteric Wolf

  • Insecure Wolf

  • Jealous Wolf

  • Jubilant Wolf

  • Loathing Wolf

  • Lustful Wolf

  • Modest Wolf

  • Mournful Wolf

  • Nostalgic Wolf

  • Numb Wolf

  • Obsessive Wolf

  • Passion Wolf

  • Pity Wolf

  • Placid Wolf

  • Psycho Wolf

  • Raging Wolf

  • Reverent Wolf

  • Reviled Wolf

  • Sanguine Wolf

  • Seething Wolf

  • Sensitive Wolf

  • Serene Wolf

  • Shy Wolf

  • Sorrow Wolf

  • Stoic Wolf

  • Stubborn Wolf

  • Sycophant Wolf

  • Tender Wolf

  • Trickster Wolf

  • Tyrant Wolf

  • Ultima-Wolf

  • Unyielding Wolf

  • Vain Wolf

  • Venturous Wolf

  • Vindictive Wolf

  • Weary Wolf

  • Wicked Wolf

  • Wrath Wolf

  • Yearning Wolf

  • Zealous Wolf