Countless turns of the seasons ago, the Wolfrider tribe was split between Chief Two-Spear and Huntress Skyfire, siblings with the chieftainship blood and vastly clashing views of what was best for the tribe. Two-Spear, said to be half mad from being born outside of Recognition, burned with the desire to rage war against the humans, slaughtering their enemy of old for the safety of the tribe. Two-Spear also wished to return the tribe to the Palace of the High Ones.

Huntress Skyfire, however, felt that fighting the humans was a lost cause for both elves and humans alike, and that it was best to avoid the five-fingers and live as the pack has always done. She was backed by a number of tribesmates, especially the remaining pure blooded elves who neither liked Two-Spear nor could accept the thought of war. The sibling rivalry finally came to a head and Huntress Skyfire eventually challenged her brother for chieftainship. She was almost killed but Two-Spear spared her life; however, he took the tip of her left ear with his spear, a reminder of her disobedience and his authority.

Two-Spear left the holt, accompanied by those that believed the tribe needed a change. Among them was an elf soon to be RWH's first chief, Snakethrower. The elves followed Two-Spear loyally at first, wandering the vast plains for several years in search of a rock outcropping that lead to a long deserted dwelling of the High Ones, still steeped in their magic that Two-Spear had found on one of his wanderings. The tribe finally found the dwelling and lived there for a few years, slaughtering any humans that approached as ordered by Two-Spear.

Two-Spear was once again challenged, this time by his own daughter, Kahvi, for the chieftainship as the elves once again believed their chief to have gone mad. Kahvi unfortunately lost the challenge, and the tribe believed her dead as she fell into a pool, gorged in the stomach by her father's own spear. Two-Spear left her there for dead and decided to move the tribe once more. However, Snakethrower gathered up the elves who now refused to follow Two-Spear again and they left the broken chief and his few loyal companions to start a new tribe and eventually founded Forbidden Grove holt.

In time, and five chiefs later, the descendants of the elves from Two-Spear's old tribe finally founded RWH in a large grouping of canyons with raging rivers running through their depths and lush temperate rainforests rich in game.

The RWH elves are a wolf bonding tribe similar to the Wolfriders, indeed, they descended from the same ancestors that the Wolfriders did.