Mowgli

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Mowgli: Once Upon A Time...

There was a boy who was lost from his family during a tiger attack. The Seeonee wolf pack found and raised the boy, with Rama and his mate Raksha nurturing the child as though he were one of their own cubs. The boy was named the beastspeak word for "little frog" due to his lack of fur and inability to be still.

When the tiger Shere Khan learned of this boy, he approached the pack's alpha, Akela, and demanded the boy be given to him as tribute. Akela, with the backing of his pack, refused the tiger's request. The boy grew older and though he proved useful to the pack for his ability to remove thorns from wolf paws and craft tools, he struggled to learn as his wolf brothers did. So his mentoring was trusted to Baloo, the old bear.

Akela sought the aid of Bagheera, a wise panther who knew much of man's ways as he had been born in one of their cages before escaping to the wild. Bagheera recommended that the boy be taken away from the wolves and returned to his own people. Akela agreed and trusted Bagheera to escort the boy to the nearest village of man.

While Bagheera and Mowgli traveled, Shere Khan stalked them until he was fended off by Mowgli who had found Shere Khan's fear of fire to be a useful weapon against the crazed tiger. With Shere Khan frightened away, Bagheera was able to bring Mowgli to the nearby village where he was found by Messua, a villager who believed the boy to be her missing son Nathoo who had been taken by a tiger as a baby.

Though it was possible that Mowgli was actually Nathoo, he could not shake the feeling that he was living someone else's life and often would wander into the forests to speak with Bagheera who stayed close to the village to help Mowgli adapt to life among men.

Bagheera's efforts to guide Mowgli toward this lifestyle were undone by the arrival of Mowgli's wolf brethren who came to the village to seek Mowgli's help. Shere Khan had killed Akela and pronounced himself to be the pack's new alpha. When Rama spoke out against this, Shere Khan killed him too. Now Raksha and her children were living without a pack. Grey Brother and the other wolf brothers, having heard of Mowgli's defeat of the tiger, called upon their brother Mowgli to help them defeat Shere Khan.

Mowgli agreed to help, but Bagheera reminded Mowgli his place was with the humans now. After considering the matter, Mowgli devised a plan where he would volunteer to watch the village's herd of water buffalo. His brothers would lure Shere Khan into a ravine and then Mowgli would cause a stampede and guide the water buffalo into the ravine. The plan worked and Mowgli returned to the village with the tiger's skin - but soon the villagers became unsettled by Mowgli and accused him of witchcraft, having witnessed him converse with beasts.

Not wishing to abandon his gifts, Mowgli returned to the jungle where he felt safe. He had many other adventures, both in the world of beast and man, but soon he was forced to flee when the Sheeda began to conquer the Indu. Mowgli knew of ruins that had a gateway to another world and would lead many animals into our world.

He was soon found by Bigby and invited to Fabletown. Sensing Mowgli's wild nature, Bigby even found him a job that made use of his talents.

### Supplemental Reports

* (*Submitted by Herald*) Mowgli is often seen wearing his snakeskin jacket and almost never seen without his tiger tooth necklace. Due to some unfaithful adaptations of his history, Mundies often think his jacket was made from the hide of Kaa. Mowgli is appalled by this and is quick to correct people that the skin he took the hide from was the giant cobra Thuu.
* (*Submitted by Herald*) Mowgli has a number of animal friends, most of which he rarely gets to see as his work as a Tourist keeps him busy and animals such as Baloo, Bagheera, and Kaa need to live at the Farm. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is Mowgli's constant companion and partner in his service as a Tourist of Fabletown. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi's size, speed and intelligence make him ideal for this covert work. He often acts as a scout, infiltrator, and lookout for Mowgli. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has a soft spot for children and will often wander away from Mowgli during their downtime to seek out children to play with. When Mowgli undertakes a mission which requires a second Tourist, he often travels with Cinderella. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi gets along with Cinderella as would be expected, but he has a rivalry with her three mouse companions: Ridley, Latimer, and Cranmer. The four of them will often bicker and compete, even in the midst of vital assignments.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Fable Physiology**
	+ ***Connection to the Red:*** Most animals regard Mowgli as one of their own. They recognize he is human but are not startled by his presence alone. It is worth noting that felines do not seem affected by this ability.
	+ ***Enhanced Agility:*** Mowgli is super-humanly agile and able to navigate his environment with great ease.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses:*** Most of Mowgli's senses function at levels beyond most humans' ability.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Mowgli lives without aging.
	+ ***Resurrection:*** Like other Fables, Mowgli is able to return to life after suffering a violent death.
* **Survival Skills:** Mowgli can survive indefinitely in any environment which can support animal and/or human life. He is a legendary hunter, tracker, and survivalist.

### Weaknesses

* **Outsider:** Mowgli lives between two worlds. He cannot think of himself as a man, nor as beast.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 6 - World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Range:** 4 - Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 6 - World-Class / Superb
	+ **TOTAL:** 90
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* He works as a "Tourist", a Fable that ventures into the Mundane World to find new refugees and bring them to Fabletown to sign the Fabletown Compact (pardoning them of their past crimes in exchange for them agreeing to abide by Fabletown's laws of secrecy).

## Network Files

Network Files Mowgli.pngNetwork Files: Mowgli

## Links and References

* Appearances of Mowgli

1. ↑ Network Files: Mowgli
2. ↑ Roy Reimagines... Fables