White-Eye-ikthya is a Lupus Philodox Black Spiral Dancer Master of the Rite of the Trinity Hive.[1]
Biography[]
White-Eye-ikthya was an Uktena Wyld Chyld who witnessed the Trinity Explosion. The insights he gained into the inner workings of the trait, and the Wyrm in particular, inspired almost instant reverence in the Black Spiral Dancers who quickly flocked to the site. Now regarded as one of the greatest Philodoxes of the Black Spirals, he recounts the tale of his "enlightenment" at every Rite of Passage, and Black Spiral pups are brought from all over the world to hear him speak. With all his renown, White-Eye plays a dangerous game, for he still maintains secret contact with the Uktena elders, and will help any Garou who knows the secret code words that White-Eye has prearranged with the Uktena Bane Tenders Guild. Whether he is truly uncorrupted Uktena insurgent, or is playing the Uktena for fools, or is lost in some personal madness which ignores the Garou-Wyrm conflict is up to the Storyteller.
Appearance[]
Ancient, shriveled, impotent and nearly hairless, White-eye is frequently mistaken for a metis, although the trained eye will recognize these as effects of long-term radiation exposure, As his name implies, White Eye is blind, but still has the uncanny habit of gazing directly at whomever he is talking to.
Stats[]
Position: Master of the Rite
Breed: Lupus
Auspice: Philodox
Tribe: Black Spiral Dancer (formerly Uktena)
Nature/Demeanor: Visionary/Deviant
Attributes: Strength 1, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2, Charisma 4, Manipulation 4, Appearance 1, Perception 2 (0 for all sight rolls), Intelligence 4, Wits 5
Abilities: Alertness 4, Empathy 2, Expression 5, Primal-Urge 3, Subterfuge 5, Animal Ken 4, Leadership 2, Performance 4, Stealth 3, Survival 4, Enigmas 5, Occult 5, Rituals 5
Backgrounds: Past Life 2
Gifts: Heightened Sense, Sense Magic, Shroud, Truth of Gaia, A Thousand Voices, Ears of the Bat, Scent of Sight, Detect Spirit, Beast Life, Ultimate Argument of Logic, Fabric of the Mind, Song of the Great Beast
Rank: 5
Rites: All
Fetishes: Deathrattler, Goblin Ale, Baneskin
Rage 3, Gnosis 9, Willpower 8
Trivia[]
- The Werewolf Players Guide mentions a fallen former Wyld Chyld member as "Howls-Without-Moon". But as a Galliard, rather than a Philodox.[2] But the other descriptors match up to White-Eye-ikthya: "Saw a thing so terrible that sight and sanity were shorn from him, and he ended his life as a blind cripple in the care of the Black Spiral Dancers."
- In The Last Battle, White-Eye-ikthya is a former septmate known to Sirius Darkstar. White-Eye turns out to always have been a Uktena in secret and destroys Grammaw in the end. White-Eye is gravely wounded after the battle, and is given a proper rite for his death at his former sept. The last bit information he gives is that he knows of the Shadow Queen bane possessing the Perfect Metis.
References[]
- ↑ WTA: Caerns: Places of Power, p. 152-153
- ↑ WTA: Werewolf Players Guide, p. 92
- WTA: Drums Around the Fire (Trinity Caern by Sam Inabinet)
- WTA: Book of the Wyrm Second Edition, p. 22 (Quote)
- WTA: The Last Battle, p. 11, 14, 25, 136-138, 238, 240