Sorcerer

By Diane Keating (unshetek@best.com)

Totem of ? (Wisdom?)

Background Cost

8

Description

A lot of Metis -- mostly Fianna and especially Whispering Rovers, and surprisingly enough Children of Gaia and Black Furies -- are flocking to this dark, enigmatic totem. Once thought to be the first Fianna Metis born under the Crescent Moon -- perhaps because of a mating between a Fianna and a Gurahl? -- "the Sorcerer" was literally driven underground in shame; the Fianna were shocked and horrified by his sway back, pot belly, knobby head, dizzyingly-fluid transformations and huge, unnerving eyes. The network of caves in the Pyrenees and south of Gaul became his home. This was in the far distant past before the betrayal of the White Howlers and the birth of the Black Spiral Dancers, and the caves were reasonably safe for any Garou to wander, if somewhat disheartening. Nevertheless, the Metis called "the Sorcerer" learnt to love them.

Away from his warlike cousins, Sorcerer's Rage grew not less, but more focused. He could direct and entrance those who met his odd gaze. He claims to have taught art to the first humans, not to tame or "improve" nature but to understand it better: art as meditation. He never took part in the Impergium and in time, the tribes of Sheep grew to honour and, eventually, love him. Sorcerer lived a long time, some say even thousands of years; the portrait of him in the Cave of the Three Brothers (Les Trois Freres) is said to mark the place where he finally sat down for one last meditation and never came back.

Traits

Children of Le Sorcier receive 3 dots in Enigmas (if this takes them over 4, their specialty is: Ancient Enigmas), 2 dots in Meditation, 3 dots in Expression (Painting), and the Gifts: Eye of the Cobra, Scent of Sight and Wisdom of the Ancient Ways. They also gain two dots of Wisdom and the Merits: Mixed- and Metamorph. It is whispered that he might have the Gurahl Gift: The Long Sleep to teach, but so far he hasn't.

Bear, Stag, Wolf (not Fenris), Dana and Owl claim Kinship with The Sorcerer. It is not known whether he was an ancient Seer who was allied with these spirits or whether he was a Materialized Jaggling created by a distillation of each of them that grew in power until he reached Incarna status. These spirits and their Children will honour and aid packs accepted by Le Sorcier.

Ban

Le Sorcier will only ally with the deformed, outcasts, misfits and battle-scarred.