Asena

In the Göktürk foundation myth recorded in the source, a young boy survives a battle and is found by a she-wolf named Asena, who nurses him back to health. The myth states that the she-wolf became pregnant by the boy and fled pursuing enemies, crossing the Western Sea to a cave near the Qocho mountains and a city of the Tocharians. There she bore ten half-wolf, half-human sons; from these descendants (notably Yizhi Nishidu) the Ashina clan and later Göktürk ruling lineages are said to arise.

The source describes Asena simply as a she-wolf associated with the Göktürks' foundation myth. The text does not provide further physical details such as size, markings, or anthropomorphic traits; in some cultural narratives the character is denoted by the Turkish term Bozkurt, glossed as 'gray wolf', which signals a symbolic association rather than additional literal description in the provided account.

The source presents Asena's actions as narrative elements of the foundation myth: she finds and nurses an injured child, becomes pregnant by him according to the legend, escapes enemies by crossing the Western Sea to a cave near the Qocho mountains, and gives birth to ten half-wolf, half-human sons who become progenitors of the Ashina clan. The source does not ascribe other supernatural powers (such as shapeshifting, speech, or explicit magical abilities) beyond these mythic functions.