Ossian is a Fianna and independent ghoul who hunts Kindred and drinks their vitae. He was on the Camarilla Red List in the 1990s.
Biography[]
Five hundred years ago, Ossian was a member of the proud Fianna Garou, a recorder and poet for the tribe. His mother, one of the Seelie faeries, fled to the Fianna after being transformed into a fawn by Fear Doirche, a mage who ached to possess her love. The Garou were able to break the charm and restore Sadbh to her natural form. She did not return to Arcadia, however, having mated with Finn, a Fianna warrior.
Their happiness was shattered when the mage again captured Sadbh, and she disappeared forever from the world. Finn and his pack, after a heart-breaking search, happened upon a young boy while hunting. Two faeries of formidable strength, the child's guardians, kept the pack at bay until Finn recognized the child as his own. He brought the homid back with him.
Ossian had inherited the powers of his kind, and even as he became the most valiant of warriors against the Wyrm, he also became a powerful singer. Ossian took a mate, and together they raised their child to be a great warrior as well.
Father was destined to outlive son, who fell in the battle of Gabhra against the minions of the Fear Doriche. In his rage, Ossian hunted relentlessly for the wizard until he was discovered by the mage's fairy ally, Niamh. She tricked him into travelling into the blacker places of Arcadia. There he lived, a prisoner for more than a century as his tribe began to struggle desperately against the forces of the Wyrm.
Niamh ignored Ossian's demands to be returned to his people. In her dark lair, he was subjected to visions of beauty so intense that it crawled with vileness. Her voice held a power that made Ossian cry out in pain. It was only his own voice and songs which prevailed against her dark influence. She attempted again and again to get a child from him, but to no avail.
At length, he was able to call upon his totems and spirits to give him strength enough to escape and find his way through the barriers back into his own land. Restrained by spirits, Niamh hurled a curse at him and screamed that he should seek the supernatural virility of blood even as she did. Furthermore, he was to bear the weight of his absence from his world.
Outside Arcadia, a hundred years had passed, and when he touched his native soil, the fairy's curse enveloped him. His glossy red fur turned as white as winter and pain coursed through his body. In Homid form, he was bent and fragile. This ache could not compare to the cramps of his hunger for blood.
His people did not know him, for much had changed by this time, but they consented to take him in after he sang to them tales of their tribe's proud past.
He hunted constantly, trying to fill the cramping hunger that clung in his stomach. The Fianna turned him out not long afterwards. His slaying endangered the tribe; his drinking of blood shocked them. He left, vowing revenge on the tribe amongst whom he had been one of the mightiest.
One night, he chanced upon a nun who, unaware of the wolf under his human disguise, attempted to convert the old man to Christianity. Something about the woman's blood stirred the curse within Ossian. He raged, and after a protracted battle with the woman, who was much stronger than he had guessed, he killed her.
The nun had been a vampire, and the taste of her vitae fed the curse, making him feel younger and less frail. Then came the guilt of what he had done, but the compulsion, the rewards of the blood in his mouth, was too seductive. He resigned himself to eternal damnation and separation from Gaia under the Wyrm-bred malediction. He would hunt vampires from then on.
In the early 1960s, Ossian befriended a human woman whose special sight penetrated his curse and saw the young warrior within him. With her, he fathered a child, although he had to leave her and his unborn son behind rather than endanger them. He misses her most of all, but doesn't know that he has a son.
Ossian's son, Seeker, emerged as a Garou and has been raised among the Children of Gaia. He wants to find his father, destroy the curse and put him to rest.
His Modus Operandi[]
Because of the time he spent in Arcadia and Niamh's curse, Ossian's aura had a strange hypnotic effect that paralyzes Kindred who see it. How long this lasts depends on the Willpower of the individual. She must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 8) or be immobilized for the first round. A botch may actually work to the player's advantage, sending her into a frenzy and causing her to flee in horror.
Lupine Involvement[]
Some Garou who know Ossian would pity him if he had not unknowingly joined forces with Blanca, a Black Spiral Dancer pretending to be a Glass Walker and an agent of Niamh. Now, even as she is their prime target, they will not spare the old ghoul, if only because he has become a corrupted part of the Wyrm. At present, they are dispatching warriors to scout his position. The Fianna and the Children of Gaia toil in locating him through rites and spirits. Ichrim Moonshadow, a large black Lupine and member of the Black Furies, carries a quest to destroy Blanca and will not hesitate to kill Ossian.
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Trivia[]
He might be the same character as Ossian Son of Bane Slayer.
References[]
- VTM: The Kindred Most Wanted, p. 38-42