Born to Easy and Aditya atop the Elysian Mountains in a pack called White Spine. He and his sister, Eldest, were the first pups born to this pack on the string of mountain peaks. At six months old, he and his elder cousin, Valiant, went to visit family at Round Valley for a season. From there, they set off on a journey that would span nearly three years.

During this time, he and Valiant made their living as traveling bards and bounty hunters. As a reward for a particularly dangerous bounty — the jungle cat Tendua — he was allowed to mate with a huntress named Auk. He and another bounty hunter, Slow West, were allowed equal shares of this prize before being sent away. They traveled together to Slow West's homeland in the desert, where Dutch spent a few seasons before circling back to meet up with Valiant once more.

In late 2023, the pair made their way back into the Teekon Wilds with thoughts of settling down. Dutch found his home very quickly among the sunshine people, who occupied territories across the Great Bear Wilderness and the coast. These packs were collectively known as the moon villages, and Dutch chose to join the ranks of the newest of them: Moonsong. He made fast friends with a hunter of Moontide, Chakliux, and soon departed with him on a man hunt. They tracked their pray for weeks through the Sunspire Mountains and Rising Sun Valley. The hunt culminated in a fight with their prey that was quickly interrupted by a bear. Dutch was injured, and their prey had escaped.

He returned home with little to show for his efforts, feeling tired and defeated. Shortly afterward, Moonsong's leadership departed without warning. Dutch held the pack together as well as he could, at first requesting help from Moonglow, the flagship village of Teekon's sunshine people. However, with winter taking hold of the land, Dutch didn't feel comfortable with taking able bodies from other packs and decided they would continue on without a moon wolf to lead them.

With this decision, he renamed the village Morningsong.

In the midst of these events, Dutch traveled to Moontide to visit Chakliux and his family. He was invited to their lodge, where Chakliux's wives were in the midst of their fertile season. Dutch laid with both, cementing his bond with the seaside family.