Warriors (Erin Hunter)
"this book series has inspired children for year after year to run around pretending to be feral cats killing one another on the playground. it's hunt."
The Fifth Elephant (Terry Pratchett)
"The Scone of Stone, an ancient dwarven artifact, has been stolen, and without it, the new Low King of the Dwarfs cannot be crowned. It's up to Sam Vimes and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to travel to Uberwald and unravel the dark conspiracy surrounding the theft. Not the strongest contestant, but Vimes does spends a chunk of time being hunted down by werewolves"
a royal food tester (eats food to see if it poisoned or safe) who, after years of fearing that every meal will be their last, becomes an avatar of the end
a “witch” whose entire life was shattered and who was burned at the stake, who returns in a gout of flame as an avatar of the desolation
roving bands of trackers who slowly grew more bestial and separated from their villages, chasing ever bigger prey as avatars of the hunt
children branded as changelings who become avatars of the stranger
shunned bastard children who beguile their ways into the good graces of their rich parent’s family and gracefully claw their way to the top as avatars of the web
just… avatars in eras long passed. shaped by the world around them