Fergal

*As a Man, a Husband or a Father, Fergal of Ulster is an Excellent Garou* Tegan

Showing a softer side on his wedding day.

### Titles

Sept Alpha, Wyrm Foe, and Eldest Ahroun of the Nation; also claims Eldest Fianna of Northern Ireland

### Caern

Emain Macha

 **Tegan**

Leader of the Celtic Fianna with Bryn of the Nation. Married to Tegan, who has left him - and who is rumoured to be dating a metis...

Probably the most terrifying combatant in the British Isles.

Fergal was born in Ulster and along with his friend Diarmed lived through the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland as he was coming of age. The two of them worked the shipyards as teenagers together and first changed within a week of one another. Together they sat their rite of passage under the old Alpha of Emain Macha and met the packmates they would have for life during it.

The tale for the rite of passage has been looked at as a curate's egg of a piece. It both speaks of incredible bravery in facing down a whole pack of vampires in West Belfast - but also admits to shredding the veil when the fight spilled out. But it's the veil coverup that made Fergal famous.

When the last vampire died and Fergal and his four friends stood in Crinos in front of a yelling crowd of locals, Fergal picked up one of the vampire's machine gun and liberally sprayed the crowd while yelling in Gaelic, before Diarmed started throwing molotovs into them. Caught between terror and fury the crowd rioted. As the tale correctly notes. 'Not a one of the night's official reports or papers mentions a werewolf.'

While the pack passed, it was with great reservation from their Elders, and the pack was 'encouraged' to go and find their fortune in the Americas. They returned as Adren.

Fergal took power in the caern the old fashioned way. He challenged and beat or killed every Garou that stood in his path until he was alpha. Then his packmates challenged for the other caern positions he couldn't hold until he they had a stranglehold on the caern.

His position has always been simple. If you are a Garou in Northern Ireland you obey his rules and his commands, or you challenge him for leadership before you break those rules. Historically attempting to do so after has proven fatal and breaking the rules without a challenge permanently painful, both to your renown and to your collection of battle scars.

At least this way the caern works, and the historic divisions on ideology and politics amongst the Garou and kin are subsumed by the obligations of being Garou under the most literal interpretation of the litany in the nation.

By those that like and care for him, Fergal has been likened to something out of Scorsese's Godfather trilogy. True, loyal and driven but without the slightest ounce of mercy or compassion for anyone or anything that crosses him.

The upside of that attitude for the caern is that it is now believed that the fastest way to gain renown or build a legend in the Nation of Albion is to come and fight alongside the caern of Emain Macha. As such there is a pretty solid trickle of young Garou and anruth packs coming through to support the caern's permanent residents. If they don't die they will gain rank faster than anywhere else - because when Fergal says 'Fight the Wyrm wherever it lives or breathes', he means it in the most literal way possible. No excuses, no parley, no deals, no clever stratagems to undermine the Wyrm. You just kill it.

Politically, Fergal and Bryn are close allies and both share a distaste for the defensive and tactically conservative policies of the Silver Fangs, a wary dislike of the tech of the Glasswalkers and a tiredness for the mortal ethnic concerns of the Get of Fenris. Fergal is more warlike than his Welsh counterpart but accepts that the difference between an Ahroun and a Philodox makes this inevitable, and actively respects Bryn's opinion and advice. The pair of them have almost no time for Canlaodh. Although they show due respect to his station in all public settings it is an open secret that they do not consider Ireland to be part of the nation of Albion any longer and so are not required to follow any of the Ard Ri's policies that are not limited to the tribe as a whole, and contend that a Tribal Alpha has no direct sway over the running of individual caerns or local politics.