Raymond Hawkins, known as Raymond Love-of-the-Goddess, was a Child of Gaia born in the English village of Woolegrave in 1770. He eventually became the first of the Children of Gaia to arrive in Australia.[1] He was exiled to Norfolk Island when he objected to King Earl Blaze's attitude towards the Bunyip, and died there.[2]
Biography[]
Raymond Hawkins was born in 1770 in the English village of Woolegrave. Son of a Kinfolk schoolteacher and his "mad" Garou wife, he grew up loving the countryside and his parent's charity work among the swarming poor. His First Change took place as he wandered the woods alone, and his parents rejoiced. He went to collage on a scholarship and was ordained in a small sect, the Forest Brethren, which combined Christianity with Gaian teaching. The sect's members were mostly Garou and Kin. When the English began to send prisoners to Australia, Raymond volunteered to accompany the Fleet as a chaplain. He then sailed in the prison ship preaching of Gaia's love for all.
Upon arrival, Raymond was appalled to hear the reports that the Bunyip of legend dwelt in the new land, along with even stranger reptile-shifters. The Silver Fang Earl Blaze of Uffington, the self-appointed leader of the Garou migration to Australia, vowed to proceed with colonization despite this news. How could these long-forgotten "lesser races" save Gaia? The land belonged to those who could use it best.
Raymond protested endlessly for better treatment for the convicts and natives, and was particularly outspoken against Earl Blaze's desire to take caerns from the native shifters if need be. As punishment for his defiance, Blaze sentenced him to Norfolk Island, the grim prison-within-a-prison for convicts who committed heinous crimes on Australian soil. The holy man welcomed his fate; as he said, "Who needs me more than they? And they may listen." He worked side by side with murderers for many years; eventually Raymond was released and died in the Hunter River Valley, seeing the Children established on Australian soil.
References[]
- ↑ WTA: Tribebook: Children of Gaia, p. 92
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Australia, p. 17-18