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tsameti
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Joined: 15 Dec 2008
Posts: 826
Karma: -8
13.50 Experience
Location: In the bitter-cold recesses of the Midwest
Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:41 pm
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Rifle-Breaker never knew his birth parents. He, like many of his kind found himself in an orphanage for most of his childhood. The nuns there called him Ferdinand, and were not gentle in his upbringing.The formative years of his life were rebellious, angry, and wild. His guardians were forced to respond in kind, and he can barely remember a time that he did not wear bruises on his body.
At a young age, Ferdinand ran away from the orphanage to a life in the streets. He had already grown to a huge size, and had little aptitude for subtlety; so he quickly found himself acting as a strong-arm thug for a crime syndicate in Madrid.
Then he experienced the change. Funny thing about butchering seven members of a crime family, they don't take it very well.
Ferdinand fled Spain and took refuge in Basque territory, as luck would have it, an area controlled by several large packs of the Forsaken. He remained tribe-less and nameless for a full year before he had a real chance to prove himself to his pack.
The separatist Basque territories were engaged in a longstanding military antagonism with the nation of Spain, and were able to survive mostly due to the protection of the Uratha. In the late '80s, Spain launched a major military offensive against the Basques, and it was this conflict that earned Rifle-Breaker his name and acceptance as a Storm Lord.
Rifle-Breaker spent seven years in the mountains, a consummate warrior-lieutenant savagely putting down spirit incursions and organizing raids against government forces. But then the Pure came sweeping in from Western France, devastating the Basque packs. The survivors fled to America, acting on misguided rumors that the Forsaken were much stronger there.
For twelve years, the pack waged Guerilla warfare against the American Pure, utilizing tactics they had perfected in Europe. The Howl of the Pyrenees grew in reputation as an unusually violent and militant pack, made more so because they remained always on the move, never truly welcome in a given territory. They carved a corridor through Pure territory from Miami to Oklahoma, but at terrible cost. Although the Howlers recruited aggressively they could not sustain their numbers, and finally suffered a resounding defeat assaulting a Pure locus in northern Oklahoma.
The last living survivor of the Basque Uratha, Rifle-Breaker remains pack-less. But he refuses to end his personal war, and has since served as a traveling emissary and combat consultant on behalf of the Storm Lords in the American Southwest.
He comes to Sacramento to answer the call, hungry for open conflict against the enemies of the Forsaken.
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Ruby: Listen for that Hollow Sound, Supernal Vision
Grobbler: Ogre Bandersnatch, Autumn Mantle 2
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