Asena the she-wolf nursed the last surviving boy of a slaughtered Turkic people, and from their union sprang ten sons — the ancestors of the Ashina, the royal wolf-blooded dynasty whose name carried the memory of their lupine mother.
Asena, the she-wolf who nursed the last Turkic boy and founded the Ashina dynasty, is the most famous earthly manifestation of Boz Kurt, the Celestial Wolf of Turkic tradition — the cosmic protector of the people made flesh in the mountains.
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