Paul Lahote is a shape-shifter and third-in-command in the Uley pack. He was born in Tacoma, but when his parents divorced, he moved to La Push with his father.
He had his own crowd of friends as a human, so when he started phasing and hung out with Jared and Sam, his distance from his previous friends attracted some attention, but he still found partnership with his new pack. Unfortunately, due to his naturally bad temper being enhanced by the change, Sam had to constantly be near him to make sure his accidentally-triggered transformations didn't attract notice from the locals—which happened frequently. As a shape-shifter, he sets protecting La Push and the Quileute traditional lands as his job.