Lewis

**Lewis** is a Wendigo.

## Biography

Like most Lupus Garou, you came to realize you were different near puberty. The runt of a litter of six, you had always been quiet, bright but submissive, and never had to be nudged out from underfoot. It was always easy to creep around the edges of things, to not be noticed, to smell and learn.

Your packmates never saw the patterns dancing over the snow, the mysterious gaps between branches, the scents and sounds that made you feel ill and even more isolated.

You never truly felt part of your pack again, once you realized how deeply different you were. Your father tolerated your disappearances patiently, the only hint he gave you were not of the same breed as your brothers and sisters. Once you began to explore your powers, your hunger for answers overcame you, and you spent more and more time in quiet and dark solitude, letting your nose and your mind take you traveling through the other worlds.

Sometimes you would journey so long that you would wake with crushing headaches, your paws trembling uncontrollably.

The first time you saw a human, waiting for you at the edge of the trees, you began to understand. When you saw the human change into a wolf, you understood more. You were never sure what world he belonged to but it didn't seem to matter to him. He was called Crooked Branch, and he had gone on a spirit journey, an aisling, and the spirits had brought him to find you, He taught you everything he knew, about the Garou---finally explaining what you were, what you could see. He showed you how to shift into man form, how to yip words aloud, the way humans did. You had names to give things now, somehow it brought you peace. Webs and the Umbra, Reaching, the Tellurian, the Wyrm.

Crooked Branch left you one frozen night, telling you he could go no farther. No matter where you looked, your mentor was gone. You knew your father would know nothing, and so you sough out the company of men, whose words might lead you to other Garou, more words, more answers.

Leaving your pack, you ran, beneath the waxing and waning of two moons, to the city.

You fought to learn as fast as you could, frustrated by your incomprehension and ignorance of the world of humans, fascinated by their language with no smells. The time you spent in the comfort of the Umbra, seeking explanations, always brough you pain when you returned, no matter what form you took, you started to use the humans' pain killing drugs to numb the aching.

You took a human name, a human job, exams. You worked your way steadily up through the University of Calgary with honors in history, and then took a position as an assistant reference librarian, surrounding yourself with words, taking stronger pills. You used all your knowledge, and soon you got attention from the only people who wouldn't ask questions about how you found things.

The kind of people that wouldn't want questions asked of themselves, who needed answers to weird questions that most people never asked.

Loners, criminals, occultists. The kind of people that, like you, always managed to disappear, vanish into snow. They might not understand what you are, but they remember you and what you can do. And now, other Garou are beginning to find you.

You're afraid.

Your thirst for new insights, learning and wisdom is what drives you.

You shy away from anything personal, or anything that may reveal your lack of "common sense" knowledge.

If you get going researching something interesting, or talking about something you know, you'll be avid and eager, almost too enthusiastic.

This lets you blend in with most other geeks, thankfully. You're probably going to have to face up to your problems with pain and Disconnection, sooner or later, but it's avoidable for now.

**Equipment:** You're not quite together on this fashion thing, but nobody seems to care much at the library. You have a pretty good library of your own at home, with big locks on your doors and some mystical safeguards as well.

## Stats

**Breed:** Lupus

**Auspice:** Theurge

**Physical:** Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2

**Social:** Charisma 2, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2

**Mental:** Perception 4, Intelligence 4, Wits 2

**Talents:** Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 3

**Skills:** Animal Ken 1, Performance 2, Stealth 3, Survival 3

**Knowledges:** Computer 2, Enigmas 2, Investigation 3, Linguistics 2, Medicine 1, Politics 2, Rituals 1

**Backgrounds:** Allies 1, Ancestors 1, Mentor 1, Pure Breed 1, Rites 1

**Gifts:** Ice Echo, Mother's Touch, Sense Wyrm, Spirit Speech

**Merits/ Flaws:** Concentration, Natural Channel, Forced Transformation/Painful, Slip Sideways

**Rage:** 3

**Gnosis**: 5

**Willpower:** 4

**Tribal Weakness:** WHEEL OF THE SEASONS