Storm-Eye is a female Lupus Red Talon Philodox, and the Alpha of the Silver River Pack.
Biography[]
The wolf that would in later years become known as Storm-Eye was born in spring of 1991 to a strong pack of wolves. From her early years, she and her brother were inseparable. Her brother, who would later become alpha of the pack, became known as Fights-the-Bear when he drove a bear away from the pack at only one year of age. Another year passed, and Storm-Eye underwent her First Change and went to the Sky-Pines Sept for her Rite of Passage, where she gained the name Judge-of-the-Trees. She joined with a pack of young Garou called the Summer's Sun pack, and together they defended Sky-Pines from incursions both Wyrmish and human (one such battle is described on page 196 of Werewolf).
Tragedy struck when one of her pack renounced Gaia to join forces with the Wyrm, and later she lost the rest of her pack battling this traitor. Mephi Faster-Than-Death saved her life, and later joined her in tracking down the abjured werewolf. After that battle, she gained the name Storm-Eye Two-World-Daughter (having lost her eye during the fight, which took place in a raging blizzard). Even after this victory, however, Storm-Eye was overcome by Harano and ventured back to the hunting grounds of her birth to rejoin Fights-the-Bear's pack.
Her greatest moment of shame, however, came when she forced Fights-the-Beat to kill humans.
Her brother knew he had reached his last season. He planned to wander off into the woods and die quietly, as most wolves do. Storm-Eye, however, decided that he should die a warrior's death, and forced him to attack a group of human hunters. He killed one of the humans before being shot and slain himself. Satisfied that her brother would be well-remembered, Storm-Eye returned to her Kinfolk.
When she told them what had happened, they refused to howl for Fights-the-Bear, as he had acted against his nature by attacking humans. Confused and hurt, Storm-Eye fled to a sept of Red Talons, and told them what she had done. They mocked her, sardonically calling her "Storm-Eye Wiser-than-Gaia," and she fled again.
She continued running, traveling the world over and fighting in Eastern Europe with Black Furies and Shadow Lords both, but never outran the stigma of what she had done. Finally, she found herself at a Get of Fenris sept while it came under attack by forces of the Wyrm and the leader of the sept ordered her to flee with a young Child of Gaia metis called Cries Havoc and the Glass Walker Julia Spencer. During the battle, Storm-Eye battled a strange Bane, a shadowy wolf that filled her with inexplicable terror. The battle ended with the three werewolves escaping first to England, and then flying to New York.
Joined by the Wendigo Ahroun John North-Wind's-Son and the Bone Gnawer Big Sis, the motley pack journeyed into upstate New York and met with the Stargazer Antoine Teardrop. There, the shadow-wolf attacked again, and there Storm-Eye recognized him for what he was: her brother, Fights-the-Bear, twisted by the death she had forced on him into a savage creature of the Wyrm.
While the other Garou fought other minions of the Wyrm accompanying the shadow-wolf, Storm-Eye came face-to-face with what she hated and feared, and managed to conquer her weaknesses and win the fight. She led the pack for a time, but eventually discovered that she enjoyed traveling from sept to sept as an arbitrator for her tribe. She might arrive at any Talon caern at any time, ready to lend an objective ear to any problems the sept faces.
Image[]
In her natural Lupus form, Storm-Eye is a large gray wolf with patches of red fur on her tail and paws. In Homid form, which she avoids if at all possible, she is a young, intense-looking woman, dressed in whatever her packmates could provide that day. She is missing her left eye, although she has recently gotten into the habit of wearing an eye patch while in Homid form.
Stats[]
Breed: Lupus
Auspice: Philodox
Tribe: Red Talons
Nature/Demeanor: Alpha/Alpha
Physical: Strength 2 (4/6/5/3), Dexterity 3 (3/4/5/5), Stamina 3 (5/6/6/5)
Social: Charisma 2, Manipulation 2 (1/0/0/0), Appearance 2 (1/0/0/0)
Mental: Perception 3*, Intelligence 3, Wits 4
Talents: Alertness 3, Athletics 3, Brawl 3, Dodge 2, Intimidation 2, Primal-Urge 4
Skills: Leadership 3, Stealth 4, Survival 4
Knowledges: Enigmas 2, Linguistics 1 (English), Rituals 3
Backgrounds: Ancestors 3, Pure Breed 3
Gifts: Beast Speech, Hare's Leap, Heightened Senses, Resist Pain, Scent of the True Form, Primal Howl, Sense the Unnatural, Sense of the Prey, Trackless Waste, Wisdom of the Ancient Ways
*Increase all difficulties associated with depth perception and judging distance by 2 due to her missing eye.
Rank: 3 (Adren)
Rage 5, Gnosis 6, Willpower 6
Rites: Accomplishment, Opened Caern, Cleansing, Questing Stone, Stone of Scorn; Plus any others the Storyteller thinks appropriate.
Fetishes: Gun Barrel Fetish (Level 2, Gnosis 7): Storm-Eye wears the barrel of a rifle she took from a slain hunter wound around her wrist. It is infused with a moose-spirit, and acts as a Might Fetish (Tribebook: Red Talons, pg. 81).
References[]
- WTA: Tribe Novel Saga, p. Shadow Lords & Get of Fenris: 188, 193-195; Silent Striders & Black Furies: 26; Red Talons: 5, 8-35, 37-51, 53-58, 60-66, 68-81, 85-86, 88, 91-92, 94-105, 107-119, 121-124, 127-136; Bone Gnawers: 12, 15, 41, 52-53, 57-58, 62, 69, 72, 78-83, 85-86, 88, 91, 94, 96, 103, 105, 111, 114-116, 118-125, 127-128, 130, 132-1334, 140, 162, 164, 168-170, 172, 174, 179-184, 187, 197, 205, 207-210; Children of Gaia: 12-20, 22-24, 29, 32-35, 37, 41, 44-48, 50-53, 57-59, 65-67, 70, 72-73, 76-77, 79-82, 89-90, 92-105, 110, 129, 136-137, 142-143; Glass Walkers: 154, 156-157, 163-164, 166, 169, 173, 175, 177, 180, 189-190, 192-193, 195-196, 207, 218-220, 222-227, 229, 234-235, 237-238, 241-243, 246, 248, 252-255, 257, 259-260, 266, 268, 274-276, 280-281; Wendigo: 173, 176-177, 180-186, 189-190, 194-196, 200-201, 209, 212, 214, 216, 219, 221-222, 227, 249, 251, 254-255, 261-264, 266, 268, 272, 274-275, 277, 282,
- WTA: Tribebook: Red Talons, p. 93-94
- WTA: The Last Battle, p. 98, 101-102, 157, 160, 164-165, 191, 193, 195-199, 284-285