Little Patch was the name given to an abandoned human child who was adopted by Tyleet and (slightly reluctantly) raised by the Wolfriders. Little Patch was abandoned in the forest directly after birth, his placenta still intact, by his birth tribe, due to the red birthmark on his face; which the tribe had taken as a bad sign.
Tyleet discovered him while foraging for her favourite capnuts. Not understanding human superstitions, she initially believed his abandonment to be a mistake as the child was strong and healthy. She traced his scent back to his tribe's village and returned him under cover of night. However, she discovered her mistake when the babe's crying mother was forced to bring him out to the forest and bind him to a tree. Though the woman was pushed to slay him, she couldn't bring herself to do so.
Tyleet's motherly instincts (and long time desire for her own cub) led her to rescue him. She begged her tribe to accept him (try to deny her anything) and they let her bring "Little Patch" up as part of the Wolfriders until full grown. As a child he was clumsier, noisier and bolder than elf babes. The Wolfriders were initially reluctant to accept him due to the potential risk that he posed but later found themselves enjoying teaching him to be as close to one of them as possible.
In time the boy inherited Tyleet's wisdom and other tribe members taught him various skills and crafts, eventually becoming as swift and graceful as his adoptive tribe. To compensate for his inability to send, they taught him various whistles and howls that communicated different meanings. Notably, one shrill whistle meant "Stop! Danger!" and saved his life more that once.
Eventually he found he couldn't mate with elf maidens. A disastrous attempt with the curious Aroree led him to discover that elfin "bloodsong was pitched too high". This and the growing wariness of the other tribe members due to his unintentionally hurting others with his growing size and strength, led him to return to his own people. When he left, Cutter decreed that he could never return to the Wolfriders so as not to risk exposing them, something that Little Patch understood and accepted.
He ingratiated himself back into the tribe of his birth. Despite being continually driven away at first his continued gifts, great skill, and careful words eventually won their acceptance. He found a mate in the human tribe who was unafraid of his birthmark but, in order wed her, he was required to cut off his marked skin as a final sign of his commitment to the tribe. Once fully accepted he taught them much of his forest lore, eventually becoming their chief.
Tyleet spied on his progress throughout his life, pleased at how he led with grace and wisdom and had come to lead the tribe that once abandoned him to die in the forest. Sometimes she "spoke" to him with the special calls that he had been taught, letting him know that she was with him in a way that his companions would dismiss as simple forest sounds. Though Cutter sometimes scolded her for taking such risks, he understood the pain of a parent separated from their children due to his own experiences.
Little Patch kept the secret of the Wolfriders throughout his life, and aided them by carefully guiding his hunters away from the elves' holt and territory. However, as his mind became increasingly addled in his elderly years he told stories of his childhood in the forest but, fortunately, these were dismissed as mere delusions.
At the end of his life, he slipped away from his caretakers and ran into the forest calling for his elven mother in their tongue, making it as far as the magical thorn barrier that protected the Holt from curious humans. This put the Holt at risk of exposure to the human tribe members who chased him and the Holt's defenders prepared to kill him. However, when Tyleet whistled the signal for danger, he stopped as he had been taught. This stopped him from exposing his adoptive family and also allowed his human minders to catch him. As he was now a detriment to their tribe as well, the humans bound him and left him in the forest to die once again, but this time with love and blessings.
For the first time Tyleet broke cover to come to him and hold him, singing to him as he died, smiling in her arms.
Long after Patch's passing, Tyleet would share his story with Leetah, Skywise, Suntop, and Ember after the four rejoined the tribe after being taken into the future by Rayek.