Dark Heart

## Location and Territory

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## Sept Positions

### The Hourglass

* Snaps the Weaver's Threads
* Mother Kostakovich
* Whisper Catcher

Totem
Bull

### Guardian Ghosts

* Sticks and Stones
* Speed Kills
* Ancient Hope
* Reef Knot
* Sorrow Falls

Totem
One Voice

### Model Citizens

* Waiting Storm
* Conductive Reasoning
* Pretty Boys' Pain
* Whirling Gig

Totem
Toad

### Packless

* Fariah Karim
* Kieron d'orr

## History

Another Sept and Totem that have lost much over the years, both in physical strength and prestige.

Prior to the Victorian Era, the sept (then called the Crow's Rest) was strong. Sitting between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, it kept watch over the growing human civilisations and kept the Midlands in check as a proud partner in The Pennine Protectorate.

 **The Pennine Protectorate**

 Traditionally it was a Shadow Lord held caern whose alpha would serve as beta in the Protectorate under the High King. This had been the way back as far as the coming of the Normans, when the Shadow Lords came across in the van of Austere Howl. However, when the Industrial Revolution hit, the caern was beset to both east and west by burgeoning cities and suddenly sat within a stone’s throw of some of the best mining sites for coal in the Midlands.

Under siege by human progress, the caern withered until a Glass Walker pack rose to prominence and started a partnership that extends to this day with the Shadow Lords of the caern. Investing in the human developments on one hand and using their manipulative sway to direct the growth away from the caern on the other, the odd alliance of tribes managed to keep the caern alive. Much reduced from its heyday, the old spirit of the caern slipped into slumber to eventually awaken changed into a spirit of Empire.

Over the years of the early twentieth century, the policies of the caern and Protectorate drifted further apart until the sept declared its independence in 1920, causing a breach between the Silver Fangs and Shadow Lords of Albion that has never quite healed. Since that day, the name of the caern has changed in common parlance to “the Dark Heart”, both in reference to the coal mines it once looked out over and also as subtly mockery of the King's sept.

 **Arthur Ritchie**

 **Edward Ryder**

 The last alpha, called Grendel Half Eaten, was in his late sixties. One of the oldest warriors left in the nation and in many minds long deserving Elder rank, he had been called to scandal no less than 7 times by Death Comes Quiet, on each occasion with accusations of consorting with minions of the Wyrm. Never was the scandal been found to be true, but the accusations, as much as the loss of an arm, definitely stunted Grendel’s chances of rank and reputation with the spirits.

The caern currently is in flux, with challenges for Elder on hold until some kind of answer is found to the recent murder of Grendel Half Eaten.