Katherine Aslanian-Dey was a Shadow Lord theurge of the Broad Brook Sept at the time of its destruction.
Biography[]
Born an Armenian-American, Katherine met her future husband, Elton Dey, at a city on the Rhine shortly after both of their First Changes, where they both joined the Shadow Lords. Eventually, the two of them were 'headhunted' by Broad Brook and brought to Massachusetts to join the sept.
Katherine was noteworthy among other theurges of the area for her comparatively academic approach to researching the Umbra, which Elton mirrored in his own studies. Her unique and comparatively groundbreaking perspective on the Umbra resulted in a resurgence of the Armenian aspects of the local Patron Spirits as the foremost means by which the local Garou worshipped the beings, which had fallen out of favor since the sept was 'founded' (not including the Indigenous Garou who had defended the caern for centuries before then) by European-Armenian colonizers.
She was the author of Feral Hellenism, a treatise on Garou culture's appropriation and misappropriation of the Greek pantheon. She also authored Hieraratikon, a text on the reconciliation of popular paradoxes with reality, using those of Zeno of Elea as a common stand-in for such philosophical paradoxes as a whole.
Post-Mortem[]
Katherine was present at the Battle of Graves Farm, where her consciousness was consumed by the Answering Tiger. Delirious and maddened, her body attacked Eater-of-Names, and the two Garou killed one another.
However, her mind, her essence, her soul if you would, remained within the false reality of the Answering Tiger that the 'Bane' had crafted for her and the other casualties of Broad Brook. In this false world, Elton had been one of the few casualties of the otherwise victorious Battle of Graves Farm, and she remained behind to carry on his legacy, while in the real world the inverse was true.
Over the following years in this illusory world, Katherine began to realize the truth of what happened: She was dead, and everything around her, including herself, was a lie. As the Answering Tiger attempted to use this existing fake world to entrap the survivors of Broad Brook and finish them once and for all, Katherine attempted to communicate with them for the brief moments they entered her world, looking to aid them in evading the Tiger's lies.
Eventually, Katherine learned that although the Answering Tiger existed to turn truth into falsehood, if it worked its powers on things that already depicted falsehood - misleading artwork, theaters, and the like - the membrane separating its constructed worlds and reality thinned, which she used to directly, if temporarily, project herself back into the real world at opportune moments to aid the remaining Broad Brook Garou.