Waux is the son of Asdiwal by his second, Skeena-side marriage, a figure who enters the saga in its later recorded versions. He inherits his father's vocation as a hunter of mountain goats and, with it, his father's doom: pursuing goats too far upon the heights and forgetting the discipline of the hunt, he is stranded and turned to stone on the mountain, closing the saga with a repetition of Asdiwal's own petrified end. In Waux the narrative folds back on itself, showing the hunter's ambition passing from father to son and ending, both times, in the immobility of rock.