By Rafael Kaufmann (rnedal@olimpo.com.br)
The Garou stories tell that once there was a Scottish Silver Fang called Sir Dougal McConnelly, known by his kind as Sir Dougal Baneslayer. Sir Dougal was an Ahroun and a traveller by nature. He had crossed the globe in search of adventure and of Wyrmspawn to kill... and now he'd found himself in the darkest jungles of Africa. As he walked through the woods, Sir Dougal could feel a deep evil in all around him, and as he moved south, this feeling of evil only became stronger. Eventually, the deep jungle was crossed, and Sir Dougal found a town in the savanna, a village colonized by the British. He had been told of this place, and he hoped to find someone to talk to, but, when he got to the town, he found but three badly sick African natives. In their crude English, they told Sir Dougal that they used to work for the British . . . back when they were still here. They told him that everyone else had fled since Nyobi arrived. Nyobi, he was told, was an immense lion, larger than any other ever seen; it was also more cunning and bloodthirsty than any other. Sir Dougal figured that was the source of the evil he had felt. He decided to hunt the Wyrm-creature down.
After a long hunt which exhausted both hunter and hunted, Sir Dougal finally managed to find the beast's lair. Nyobi turned into a man-lion not unlike the Crinos form of a Black Spiral Dancer, and the Silver Fang knew that a great fight was to come.
After hours of exhausting combat, Nyobi had Sir Dougal down. When the werelion's fangs were about to lay their venomous tips on him, the brave Ahroun relied on his hope and cried for the spirits of Gaia to help him. It worked, and the mighty Hawk came and turned the situation around. With one final strike of his Klaive, Sir Dougal killed the horrible beast and took its claws as a symbol of his victory. This story has been told in Silver Fang moots ever since.
The Bastet, of course, sing a different song! According to them, Sir Dougal was nothing but a bloodthirsty, corrupted trophy-hunter, and Nyobi was the protector of the traditions held by the native tribe in that area. After seeing the Europeans massacre his Kinfolk, he decided to put an end to it, and managed to chase the colonizers away from his home. When Sir Dougal arrived, he killed the remaining natives, and set out to kill their protector as well.
Luckily to Nyobi, this was his homeland, and the secrets of the earth allowed him to have an advantage against his pursuer. When the werelion was about to end the corrupted existence of the evil Garou, he relied on his link to the evil spirits, who came to his rescue in the form of a deformed Hawk. Nyobi's body was destroyed, but, out of revenge, his spirit lingers on, and to this day, whoever wears his claws around her neck will regret he ever took it!
Charms: Blighted Touch, Create Fires, Materialize
Nature: Fanatic
Demeanor: Fanatic
Image: A tall African man, wearing traditional clothing. His head is shaved, but he wears a beard. His dark eyes shine with rage.
Nyobi was a powerful and proud Simba Bastet one century ago, a defender of his people's customs and traditions. He is very bitter and often irrational, and will never be convinced that any given Garou isn't corrupted by the Wyrm.