Cúchulainn

Cúchulainn -once known as Cathair Donovan- is an Ancillae vampire belonging to clan Gangrel. He has been living like a half-feral beast at the outskirts of the countryside in Galway before going to Dublin for an alliance with the Anarch faction. He is not Byleth's actual Sire, but the closest thing they have for one, as he had been the one teaching the Neonate the ropes. He is a follower of a nearly extinct Path of Enlightment called Path of Harmony, derived from the Path of the Beast, to hone and commune with his own.

## Cathair Donovan

### Occupation

Irish Independent partisan (former)Warrior and hunter

## Physical appearance

Standing over two meters and a half, Cúchulainn has an appearance more beastly than human due to all the Frenzies he had been riding and the feeding he has done over werewolf blood at the beginning of his existance as Kindred, looking like a parody of a werewolf halfway onto his Crinos form. His body is almost entirely covered with reddish fur, his fangs are a bit larger than normal, tusks protruding a little from his mouth; has claws he can retract at will and he has yellowish, wolf-like eyes. He barely dons any clothing other than a ragged pair of pants, sometimes an open, patched vest that has been badly adapted to him to fit him properly. Living like he does, he doesn't feel the need to act human however, and even if he mostly stands on two legs, sometimes he goes on all fours, especially when hunting.

## Personality

Due to decades living almost like a beast, Cúchulainn is quite reserved and aloof, making most of the interactions himself when he feels it's necessary, but not particularly friendly at that. He wasn't always like that: once, he used to be quite a cheerful, outgoing man, craving for friends and company, very hotheaded and raucous but without a bad bone in his body. The Embrace, and the passing of time, changed all that - he is still reckless and belligerant at heart, but he is much mellowed down, quite of a loner, and also much wiser than he used to be. He still has troubles to think logically, and has little patience with people, but he is also much more willing to sit back and learn even after all this time. He is quite loyal, however, with the ones that have proven worth of his trust, but he doesn't hesitate to leave people behind if he has to.

## Background

### Mortal years

Cathair was born to a family of Fianna Kinfolk in Sligo, a town in Western Ireland. Having grown up in such an isolated atmosphere, hearing tales of the mighty and powerful heroes of the Lupine and having quite a few remarkable members in his own family, little Cathair had always dreamed of becoming a hero for his people just like them, and doing great things for everyone in the community. However, time passed, and the Change was never coming; he was starting to feel impatient and frustrated, even more feeling the pressure of his family and the caern to be useful to them. Cathair wasn't particularly smart nor skilled and he lacked direction in his life, so he felt the only way he could be useful was to fight and protect his people. But it was mostly the werewolves the ones who did that, so Cathair eventually chose his own battles to fight, after a lot of scuffles and the headaches that followed after them for the rest of his family and peers.

Meanwhile, a big unrest was brewing in Ireland, causing rifts among the people - those who wanted to continue living annexed to the British, and those who wanted independence. Not considering whatever opinion his family had about the matter, Cathair positioned himself among the seconds, being the hotheaded person he was, and deciding he wanted to take justice by his own hand. So as he was getting tired of his own predicament, and with merely a note to his family saying that he didn't want to be found, he fled his caern to join up the ranks of the partisans, not knowing that the war that he would find ahead wouldn't be anything like in the stories he had heard growing up.

## Disciplines

### Animalism

* Bound Famulus (1)
* Sense the Beast (1)
* Feral Whispers (2)
* Atavism (2)
* Animal Succulence (3)
* Scent of Prey (3)
* Subsume the Spirit (4)

### Fortitude

* Resilience (1)
* Unswayable Mind (1)
* Toughness (2)
* Obdurate (2)
* Fortify the Inner Façade (3)
* Defy Bane (3)

### Protean

* Eyes of the Beast (1)
* Feral Weapons (2)
* Earth Meld (3)
* Shapechange (3)
* Metamorphosis (4)