Old Red Eagle was a Uktena.
Overview[]
Some say that there were two moons in the sky when Old Red Eagle entered the world. Marked by Luna's Crescent as a Theurge, Old Red Eagle's imaginative and innovative approaches to magic have endeared him to many Uktena Ragabashes, who claim him as a Trickster masquerading as a Medicine Wolf.
As a young Theurge, Old Red Eagle (then called simply Red Eagle) traveled in the company of Grimscowl Bisonbreath and Howls-Her-Brothers'-Glory. Many of his admirers claim that not a few of the victories attributed to Grimscowl actually came about through Old Red Eagle's supportive Gifts.
After leaving Grimscowl's company, Old Red Eagle came into his own as a hero of the Uktena. Ryn Ap Bleidd, a Fianna Galliard who spent much of his life compiling the great songs of the Garou, has published one of Old Red Eagle's exploits under the title "The Quest of Cleansing" (see Garou Saga: Who's Who Among Werewolves).
Old Red Eagle's most notable accomplishment lay in his use of what he called "sideways magic," and it is this deliberate breaking of the rules of Garou practices that give the Ragabash their claim upon him. In his unorthodox methods of drawing down the power of Gaia, Old Red Eagle exemplified the Native American traditions of the "contraries" - shamans who customarily invoked their medicine through reversing their normal behaviors.
His search for new ways to infuse himself with magic led Old Red Eagle down increasingly strange roads until he finally disappeared from sight. Many Garou claim he became one of the Wyld Children, while others whisper that his spirit fell into more sinister ways, drawing him downward into the Wyrm-ridden madness which has claimed too many of Uktena's most talented Theurges.
Whatever his true end, his lessons and deeds in service to Gaia, his tribe and his Kinfolk have earned for him a place of eternal honor in the legends of the Uktena.
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References[]
- Rage CCG: Rage Basic Set
- WTA: Who's Who Among Werewolves: Garou Saga, p. 47-53, 109-110
- WTA: Uktena Tribebook, p. 65-66
- WTA: Wendigo Tribebook, p. 25-27
- WTA: Past Lives, p. 65-68
