Call to Battle: The Saga of Jay No-Name is a fiction novel for Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Summary[]
From the Back Cover:
- Book One in the Saga of Jay No-Name
- Life's tough enough for Jay Caldwell. He's trapped at military school, estranged from his stepfather, and brutalized by his sadistic headmaster. Things only get worse when he discovers he's a werewolf... that he's the subject of secret experiments by a ruthless technomantic mage... and that he and all his kind are pawns in a deadly scheme concocted by the werewolves' greatest enemies
- Call to Battle is a novel based on White Wolf's popular collectible card game Rage and set in the World of Darkness.
Contents[]
- School Days
- On the Road
- The Ordeal
- Back to School
- Epilogue
- Biography
- The Battle Continues
- The following is an excerpt from the action-packed adventure
- Available NOW at a Bookseller near you.
- Breathe Deeply.
- Book Offer for Breathe Deeply and/or The Silver Crown
Background Information & Trivia[]
The sub-title gives away that the book was originally planned as a Trilogy.
The CCG Crash and the downturn of the Book Market in 1996 led to White Wolf cutting most of the Fiction and Card departments. This trilogy ended up getting hit as a result, especially with Ethan Skemp wanting Werewolf and Rage novels being about werewolves and not Mage creations.
Book Two and Book Three by Doug Murray, which were finished and edited, but never published: would actually delve into the fact that Jay No-Name was paradoxical in nature and have predictable Mage: The Ascension-esque results from that.
Source: fiction: call to battle thread on alt.games.whitewolf, White Wolf Night Edition, White Wolf Publishing 1996 Catalog
- The concept of a Mage-created Garou might have been better accepted now, considering that there are now Mockery Breeds from W20 Book of the Wyrm and Storyteller's Vault.
- The novel may be labeled as a Rage novel, but the only Rage character to show up in the book is Eater-of-Bears.
- Also, despite being labeled as a Bubasti, Jay No-Name shifts into the Khara War-Form before the Khara were actually described in the Bastet Breedbook.
- This was Doug Murry's second novel, his first was Blood Relations under HarperPrism.
- Page 254 makes a reference to the novel, Breathe Deeply, with the use of collars that have silver blades in them.
Memorable Quotes[]
"A big cat!" Caldwell leaned forward, staring into Jay's face. "I'm sure you've done it by now! Turned into a tiger, perhaps, or a panther."
Jay shook his head. "I'm Garou! Not some damn cat!" - From page 352
"Dr. Caldwell laughed with delight when Jay shifted into his cat form. "Wonderful!" He moved as close to the battle as possible, studying the tawny figure. "A Smilodon! That's incredible!"" - From page 383
Characters[]
- Jason "Jay No-Name" Caldwell - Homid Theurge Uktena/Bubasti, Pack Leader, Mage-Created
- Arthur "Art" Heidel - Homid Garou, Sweet's Cadets, Cadet Captain, Died
- Colonel Sweet - Ronin Homid Shadow Lord, Commander of the Cadet Corps
- Doctor Robert Caldwell - Progenitor Mage, Jay's Foster Father
- Mr. Farabough - Human, Physics Instructor, Marietta Military Teacher
- Larry Gianetto - Homid Garou, Sweet's Cadets, Died
- Paul Francis - Homid Garou, Sweet's Cadets, Died
- Dancing Star - Female Theurge Uktena Ancestor Spirit
- Anitra Woodfriend - Female Uktena Kinfolk
- Thomas Woodfriend - Homid Theurge Uktena Athro, Anitra's Father
- John Torrico - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Mark Marmor - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Aaron First-born of Avram - Silver Fang, Moon Lodge, Jay's Packmate
- Eater-of-Bears - Jay's Packmate
- Goldberg - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Kevin Caldwell - Homid Uktena/Bubasti, Jason's Brother, Died
- Frawck - Black Spiral Dancer Pack Leader, Pentex Security Expert, Died
- Les Solow - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Crwal - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Skylar - Human, Cadet
- Martin - Human, Cadet
- Peevy - Human, Cadet
- Dowling - Fomori, Squad Leader, Sergeant, Died
- Sudano - Fomori, Died
- Tarver - Fomori, Died
- Pilson - Fomori, Died
- Haynes - Fomori, Died
- Karlson - Fomori, Died
- Dwargh - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Kracklw - Black Spiral Dancer, Metis, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Mgret - Female Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Talnos - "Telnos," Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Lvya - Female Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Nslin - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Zorn - Garou, Sweet's Cadets, Died
- Terry - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Brant - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Jennings - Garou, Sweet's Cadets
- Jmsyn - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Drelng - Black Spiral Dancer, Frawck's Pack, Died
- Howard Heidel - Human, Arthur's Father
- Adam Caldwell - Mage-Created, Died
- Bart Caldwell - Mage-Created, Died
- Charles Caldwell - Mage-Created, Died
- Waller - Fomori, Ex-Military, Pentex Squad Leader, Died
- Polkow - Fomori, Pentex Squad Leader, Died
- Rogers - Fomori, Waller's Assistant, Died
- John Munholland - Fomori, Died
- Todt - Fomori, Polkow's Second-in-Command, Died
- Jefferson - Fomori, Died
- Shenk - Fomori, Pentex Security Ops
- Hollings -Fomori, Died
- Bermen - Fomori, Died
- Grant - Fomori, Died
- Sams - Fomori, Died
Gallery[]
Terminology[]
Apes, Amazon, Athro, Atlanta, Bane, Bane-bonds, Bastet, Bawn, Black Spiral Dancers, Bubasti, Cadet Corps, Caern, Cliath, Crinos, Cub, Demons, Delirium, Domain, Dream Zone, Elders, Everglades, Falcon, Fetish, Field House, Florida, Fomor/Fomori, Fox, Frenzy, Gaia, Garou, Gauntlet, Georgia, Ghosts, Glory, Gurahl, Hispo, Homid (Breed), Homid (Form), Honor, Kin/Kinfolk, Klaive, Korea, Litany, Lost Cub, Lune, Lupus (Breed), Lupus (Form), Mage, Marietta Military Academy, Metis, Mongrel, Monkey, Moon Bridges, Moon Lodge, Moon Path, Neophrin (Drug), Pack, Pentex, Penumbra, Progenitor, Ragabash, Rage, Realm, Red Talons, Renown, Rite, Ritemaster, Rite of Passage, Sanctum, Sept, Silver, Silver Fangs, Singapore, Sorcerer, Soul, Spirits, Staff of Dancing Star (Fetish), Step Sideways, Theurge, Throat, Totem, Tribes, Uktena, Uktena (Totem), Umbra/Umbral, Veil, Vista, Werewolf/Werewolves, Weaver, Weaver's Web, Whippoorwill, Wyld, Wyrm, Wyrmbringers,
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