Bathes-in-Blood is an Uktena Homid Ahroun.
Biography[]
Bathes-in-Blood grew up as one of the few remaining Kunjula aborigines. Her twin sister was killed by drunken hunters while the two adolescents were playing near their home. Withdrawing into herself in shock and pain, Bathes-in-Blood refused to say a word for over a year. It was then that she was found by the sept and brought to the caern. Her realization of her true self brought Bathes-in-Blood back to the world, but her hatred of all who would threaten her world is utterly complete. She is particularly fond of stalking small hunting parties and ripping poachers apart.
Bathes-in-Blood is a powerful warrior who sees her twin roles as Gatekeeper and Master of the Challenge as vitally important and extremely serious. It is a measure of her power that she holds two such important positions in the sept. Although she never breaks the rules of challenge, her tests are always as difficult as she can make them so that hew fewest number of petitioners gain access to the caern. She particularly hates the Shadow Lords. She lost her right ear in combat to one of them years ago.
Bathes-in-Blood believes that Runs-with-Ghosts and Elspeth Nametaker are too intent on discovering knowledge, forgetting the sanctity of caern and sept. She constantly searches for a way to confront either of these two so that she might beat them in a challenge and gain greater control of her sept. Then she could isolate the tribe utterly, thus keeping her people safe. She has even begun to lose respect for Lamurun, who too often takes the middle ground instead of baring his fangs and taking the high ground as Bathes-in-Blood does.
Appearance[]
A heavily muscled rough wolf the color of sable. She is missing one ear and has ritual scares on her back and flanks (in both forms). In Homid form, she is a large aboriginal woman in her mid to late thirties with a broad face and piercing eyes. She wears traditional aboriginal lion cloths and often paints her body with ochre.
Stats[]
Position: Gatekeeper/Master of the Challenge
Breed: Homid
Auspice: Ahroun
Tribe: Uktena
Nature/Demeanor: Bravo/Alpha
Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 4, Stamina 5, Charisma 2, Manipulation 3, Appearance 1, Perception 3, Intelligence 3, Wits 4
Abilities: Alertness 3, Athletics 4, Brawl 4, Dodge 2, Intimidation 4, Primal-Urge 3, Firearms 2, Melee 4, Stealth 2, Survival 4, Enigmas 1, Occult 2, Rituals 2
Backgrounds: Pure Breed 3, Past Life 2
Gifts: Razor Claws, Shroud, Smell of Man, Spirit of the Bird, Staredown, Heart of Fury
Rank: 3
Rites: Rite of Binding, Rite of Summoning.
Fetishes: Kurdaitcha (Level 5, Gnosis 8; the Kurdaitcha is a pair of shoes made of the blood and feathers of Dreamtime Birds. The shoes aid the warrior in battle allowing her to soak an additional die of damage per hit, as well as giving her blows ancient power, adding a die to each of her attacks.)
Rage 9, Gnosis 4, Willpower 8
References[]
- WTA: Caerns: Places of Power, p. 135
- WTA: Rage Across Australia, p. 85, 130-131