Fingal Flashing-Claws is a homid Ahroun Fianna. He was born in Australia in 1910.[1]
Biography[]
Fingal Flashing-Claws was born the youngest so of a family of working-class Irish Australians in 1910. Despite the many years between Fingal and his father, the boy was always treated as somehow special. When he reached puberty, Fingal discovered why. His father, the renowned Crushes-the-Wyrm-as-Grapes-beneath-his-Paws, led the newly established Hunter Valley Protectorate, and Fingal was the only one of his children to express the Garou gene. Groomed to succeed his father as Righ, Fingal was instilled with reverence for his tribe, guilt at the destruction of the Bunyip, and an overwhelming hatred of the Silver Fangs, who had brought his ancestors to Australia in chains.
Fingal took his seat on the Jindabyne Council after his father was slain by Banes in Newcastle before his son's eyes. Fingal himself barely escaped with his life, and bears the scars of that encounter even today. Thereafter he fought a constant battle, political and physical, against both the Wyrm and the Silver Fangs. Fingal's Past Lives are strong in him, and from them he learnt firsthand of the Silver Fangs; infamy. He learned, too, of the death of the Bunyip tribe.
Paralyzed by guilt and wrapped up in the Fianna-Silver Fang feud, Fingal became less and less effective with the passing years. Today he is so set in his ways as to be almost helpless, tough he has overseen his tribe's rise to considerable political power. Recent advances in technology frighten him, and in such matters he defers to the Glass Walkers, whom he considers allies against the Silver Fangs. It is partially because of the Glass Walkers' advice that Fingal has not acted to stop the spread of industry and technology in his protectorate.
Fingal wishes to die in Ireland, and although he has not yet appointed a successor, he already makes plans for his funeral rites. His son, Brendan, an arrogant young Garou, will probably follow in Fingal's footsteps if declared heir, although Brendan is less a fighter than a boaster and singer of exaggerated tales praising his own glory.
Appearance[]
In his Homid form (from which he finds it harder and harder to transform), Fingal is a shaky old man in his 80s, with balding white hair and wrinkled, parchment-like skin. His faded blue eyes are watery, and his skin is liver-spotted. His broad shoulders are now hunched, his once strong muscles weak. His every movement is difficult, and any exertion sets him to trembling. His Lupus form is that of a great black wolf, his fur silvered, bearing many scars.
Stats[]
Position: Sept Leader, Jindabyne Council Member
Breed: Homid
Auspice: Ahroun
Tribe: Fianna
Nature/Demeanor: Judge/Director
Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 2, Stamina 1, Charisma 3, Manipulation 4, Appearance 3, Perception 1, Intelligence 4, Wits 3
Abilities: Brawl 5, Dodge 4, Empathy 2, Expression 4, Intimidation 4, Primal-Urge 3
Skills: Etiquette 4, Leadership 4, Performance 2, Survival 3
Knowledges: Enigmas 3, Rituals 2
Backgrounds: Allies 2, Kinfolk 3, Past Life 5, Pure Breed 3
Gifts: Inspiration, Persuasion, Smell of Man, The Falling Touch, Howl of the Banshee, True Fear, Silver Claws, Balor's Gaze, Gift of the Spriggan
Rank: 5
Rites: Moot Rite, Rite of Passage
Fetishes: None
Rage 6, Gnosis 5, Willpower 5
References[]
- ↑ WTA: Rage Across Australia, p. 68-69