Vik Stryker was a Silent Strider, and the leader of the Eagle's Nest Pack.
Born in the early 20th century, Vik Stryker and his pack made their names as adventurers in the 1920s and 30s, battling Setite cultists in the Middle East, the Black Steel Centipede Triad in China, and the Ku Klux Klan in the U.S. They garnered even greater fame for their rediscovery of the Lost Caern of Skull Island, their exploration of the Hollow Earth, and the recovery of the Malachite Scarab.
He lost his wife, Samantha, in the 1940s, which is the same time that the Eagle's Nest Pack fell apart. In the 1960s, disillusioned, afflicted by Harano and falling into heroin addiction in North Africa after being imprisoned for contempt for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he lost the wolf. Stryker lost nearly two decades of his life as a derelict in New York City, living off of the charity of the Bone Gnawers, until an opportunity taken to stop a mugging broke his Harano and restored his will to carry on. He spent his 80s as a private investigator in New York before retiring to Pleasant Port, Maine in the 1990s, where he spent his time assisting the local sheriff and serving as a mentor to several young Garou who had sought him out.
In 2002, at the age of 100, Stryker joined a Garou war party plotting against a Setite cult operating out of Portland. Humored by his skeptical allies, his advice actually proved crucial in planning the attack against the cult. As the battle raged, Vik found the will to fight again, managing to change into Crinos form one last time before being struck down in combat against three Setite warriors. In death, Vik Stryker secured his legacy once and for all as an honored name among the Silent Striders.
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- WTA: Silent Striders Tribebook, p. 66
- WTA: Litany of the Tribes Volume 3, p. SS: 66
- WTA: Tribebook: Silent Striders, p. 96-97
- WTA: Past Lives, p. 69-70
