Chwedl · Legend

Mythôn — Blaidd, the Wolf

Loyalty with its teeth still in

Blaidd is the wolf that chose its own pack — fierce about the people it loves, and uninterested in anyone's permission.

Mythôn Blaidd design — a low-poly geometric wolf head in cold blues and greys printed on black fabric with the gold Mythôn wordmark

Wales has old business with wolves. They ran these hills until the last of them was hunted out — and Welsh never quite let them go. Blaidd is simply the Welsh word for wolf, and the second of the five to wake.

Blaidd is not the lone-wolf cliché. In the older telling, the wolf is the most social of beasts: it lives and dies by its pack. Blaidd's ferocity is entirely in service of the few it has chosen. Cross the pack and you meet the teeth. Earn its trust and you have a guardian for life.

There is something of Gelert in it, and something of the Cŵn Annwn — the hounds of the otherworld that run the Welsh night sky. But Blaidd answers to no huntsman. It chose its own people.

Its traits are loyalty, instinct, courage and guardianship. Wear Blaidd if you are fierce about the people you love and unbothered about everyone else's opinion.

The faceted eye sits on the chest; the wolf itself, all cold blues and greys, takes the back. Made to order on Ynys Môn, printed for black fabric so the shards stay sharp.

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