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Ednas Boarding House

2026-07-18T07:12:58Z

Kray: /* Autumn's Hallow */

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|Owner=Kray
|Status=Active
|Manager=Kray
|Type=Haunted Boarding House
|Established=2008/10/01
|Address= Sacramento County California, USA
|Location=38.384253, -121.510420
|Image=Ednas Boarding House.jpg
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The history of Edna's Boarding House is one stained scarlet. Those familiar with local history will remember some of the details of the massacre that took place here a few years ago, when the owner, Edna Fritz, was found with twelve other bodies completely drained of their blood. In the gruesome aftermath of this horrible event, recent resident [[Betony Rue Jasons]] courageously took it upon herself to maintain the day-to-day operations of the boarding house, despite the fact that local authorities have never been able to solve the terrifying multiple homicide.

Unbeknownst to Sacramento's Finest, the mass murders were committed by the rogue Scarecrow Minister, Peter Milford and his Fetch (better known to members of the freehold as Skin'n'Bones and the Bogeyman), who were dealt with accordingly by the [[Tolltaker Knighthood]]. Ms. Jasons continued to run the Boarding House in honor of the deceased Mrs. Fritz, and has continued her tradition of hospitality by welcoming any members of the Lost community in need of food and shelter.

Spring in 2016, Betony Rue and her fellow Sovereigns took their leave from the Freehold, leaving control to those who remained, who then voted for their respective Sovereigns. [[Terri Nutkins]]' offer to run Edna's as its manager during Betony Rue's absence would be for naught. After three years Lady Salome came to call, the [[Truefriend]]'s neglect of the Pledge Between them<ref>[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?27239 Caged at the Fleshmarket]</ref> had sealed the former Dread Lady's fate. Terri Nutkins was now, and forever more a part of the Fleshmart's Proprietress corpse tree Hollow<ref>[http://nwod.org/forum/showpost.php?p=458360 Blood]</ref>.

Autumn 2016 [[Mhairi Ankaa]] was crowned Queen of Fear<ref>[http://nwod.org/forum/showpost.php?p=451968 Autumn Coronation]</ref> and took control of Edna's. First as it's manager, then with the Death of [[Fairweather]], and the shifting of the center of Sacramento's [[Freehold]] she gathered the money needed to ''move'' Sacramento's Witch House to the [[Funderland]] Amusement Park. Marketing it as a Haunted House for children, and a series of horror themed Escape Rooms for teenagers and adults, though sometimes as a special event, Edna's doors are opened for a Murder Mystery dinner.

'''Long after the Park closes and each of the attractions are put to bed, the Lost of Sacramento know that ever, as it has always been they might find a bed within Edna's for as long as they need one. '''

May of 2018, Mhairi Ankaa left the Freehold of Sacramento, leaving the keys to Edna's in the trusted hands of [[Coco Tascioni]], who turned them over to [[Ingrid]] when the Wasp took her leave as well.

The next dread lord of Autumn, the fairest [[Rhodes]] Took ownership of Autumn's long standing stronghold.

When [[Rhodes]] disappeared the property passed to the wizened [[Anatole]] who was crowned Harvest king of Autumn at the Equinox of his season in 2023.

Harvest king [[Anatole]] and his only courtier a recent arrival [[Kray]] a giant of an ogre, met to discuss several topics one such being the future of Edna's as both had independently arrived at the conclusion that a haunted house at a theme park was not cutting it for the court of fear. They shared ideas and the ogre's grand plan was settled on and supported by the harvest king.

When [[Anatole]] departed the freehold in July of 2024 the paperwork and ownership was passed to the sole remaining Ashen courtier [[Kray]] who continues to set the stage for the grand plan they had schemed to revive the boarding house. In turn the Ogre was crowned the next dread lord of Autumn at the seasonal equinox of September 2024.

===Leaving Funderland===
As promised [[Kray]] Moved Edna's out of Funderland and the boarding house opened it's doors for business once again in it's new location on the 4th of January of 2026. Moving well south of funderland the giant has set up shop in a out of the way spot between the Sacramento river and North Stone lake, the isolation intended to further add to the reputation of Sacramento's Witch house. This undertaking of course only the first steps in an elaborate plan to bring the old boarding house back into it's terrifying glory.

The house now sits back from the road high metal fences and a broken path meandering through some freshly transplanted trees leads up to the door adding to the legendary buildings grand sense of imposition. The surrounding grounds have had a variety of trees transplanted in: Apples, pears, cranberries, hazelnut and chestnut. In Short plants that bear fruit in Autumn, or to those of the ashen court whenever they would so wish with their contracts and catches to help out.

=====Autumn's Hallow=====
[[Image:Garden Hollow.jpg|x120px]] 

Kray has had a hard time maintaining the hollow alongside the necessary investments to get Edna's up and running as an independent boarding house once again and it currently is in a sorry state.

 With a small sense of poetic irony when the handle to the basement is jiggled a certain way after knocking in a particular pattern the door opens to the Autumn commons.

A small room, that really wasn't a room, but an enclosed clearing. Thick trees reaching higher then mortal thought, with nary a fresh leaf in sight. The barren branches reach their skeletal hands and nearly blot out the sun. The moon however has no such restrictions its glow bright and seemingly free among the branches. Growing on one side of the clearing are a pair of branches, acting like arms and cradling tomes and scrolls, though only a few of them. Sadly all that remains on the Great Archive of Autumn.

* Autumn's [[Hollow]]
** Size 1 (Kray)
** Wards
** Amenities 1 (Kray)
** Doors 1 (Kray)

*Autumn's [[Hedge Bounty]] 1
** x3 Murmur leaf (Kray)

* [[Archive]] 1
** Spirits (Kray)

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Chambers

2025-03-05T07:23:46Z

Kray: /* Sheet Stuff */

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==Appearance==
Slightly below average height for an English man, Chambers stands at 5ft 8' with a nest of dark curls on top his head shot through with grey giving him an older appearance then his early thirties years of life. When his beard is grown in it likewise has the encroaching grey of middle age.

Otherwise he is quite unremarkable as people go. He has lived a comfortable life and while not overweight was pushing that way when he first arrived in Sacramento, he has over the last several months lost a little weight for those who know what to look for although it has done little to help his overall fitness.

The Casual clothes and cheap robes have given way to more frequent use of suits that make use of the full grey palette. The move to professional academic from scruffy scholar was more then happen stance, given it coincided with his push to take up the role of councillor of the Moros, and more serious reconstruction of the Consilium. Mounting responsibilities change people. And the right image helps.

==Nimbus==

{{quote|Uncloaked|m}}
The sounds of the unquiet dead can be heard, dozens of whispers seem to emanate from unseen sources and most certainly unliving throats.

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A choir of screams from stygian shades wracks the surrounding area with a cacophony of otherworldly screams.

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The voices of his nimbus take on malevolent tones and threatening half heard words, sounds of snapping, breaking, nails on chalk board and other haunting noises accompany the stage whispers.

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The atmosphere becomes heavy with restful quiet audible by the sudden suppression of other noise, gentle sighs and peaceful whispers, the soft babbling of souls at rest, of intimate connections and peaceful acceptance.

==Awakening==
Less then forty eight hours had passed since he arrived in the river city, that all it took to die. A river cruise gone wrong, an Englishman over the edge and a swift current to drown in. But death was not what he expected. Wrapped in quiet calm. Passing through the dark towards something those had been comforting, familiar in cultural sense. The realm of Stygia however was not.

In effect washing up in the grey haze in a realm where all things were mutable, gold and marble, and wood and stone all mashed into shapes and forms beyond imagination and utterly familiar. The shades howling and screaming and calm. But what held his attention most was the Ziggurat. Each step and block made of something new and other, behold the tower of lead coin. Mutable, changing as its realm does he would go on to learn the reports varying. That this tower alone has a more storied set of experiences. But his was to climb insurmountable stairs each, composed of something new and different many materials unknown to him. Each should be beyond his ability yet is managed, each becomes part of him in an intrinsic way. Time later he reaches what appears to be the top. The coin of lead hovering before and above him. The final task his name like many other scratched into the endless matter of the tower itself. Some signed a book, the traditional method, some signed the walls or in the air the tower of the lead coin itself seeming to determine the method. His. By hand.

Returning to his senses, back to the fallen world now able to perceive the weight of death heavy upon the souls of people around, the way things and people and place connected, the exact composition and breakdown of objects. He awoke to the truth of the world. And within days had been picked up by an apostate and guided in the ways of truth.

==Background==
Arriving and Awakening in Sacramento six years prior to his arrival the Moros was picked up by a non afflicted apostate going by the shadow name of Scripture. She taught him a lot but one of the first lessons.. Keep your head down and don't get caught up in the endless back forth of the various factions at play. It is from this lesson that he never kept spells active for long until he was able to cloak them. Consequently he is utterly ignorant of the events of the city up unto his joining of the Consilium in July of 2023. Some of these events have been hinted at or teased to him.

Scripture was a stone scribe focused on the great work of restoring lost names. Believing it was possible to eventually restore the names the mages of Atlantis and from them learn. She gifted Chambers his shadow name due to his nimbus and more so gifted him the knowledge and after a few years the first attainment in the process of refining his soul.

He agrees who heartedly with her mission but not her methods. Scripture holds the pentacle and the seers in equal contempt, the servants of the abyss are even worse naturally. She dedicates herself to her mission who heartedly. Chambers see both opportunity for the names to be used to help restore Atlantis in many small ways, not least stop the abyss or seers from achieving total victory, and the need for wider cooperation to further the goal. Scripture calls him naïve and to keep his head down.

Four years after his awakening his university course sent his cohort on two years of traveling to other cultures to experience the philosophy they studied first hand. Six months in four locations. It was on this trip he would first encounter mage of the diamond and eventually pentacle orders. His presence noted by Guardians of the veil in Egypt, he was monitored interrogated rather brutally after losing a duel arcane but deemed not to be working for some nefarious master. It was here he was eventually recruited to the Mysterium. He studies of order ideology and principle continued in England and India where he had the various gaps in knowledge of mage society filled in and rounded out. During this time Scripture became aware of his choice has done her best to sever ties. Masking their connection and not making contact since his return. But their souls are connected so hiding is easier said then done should the other decide it is time to meet.

Returning to Sacramento to finish out his mundane studies in July 2023 he joined up with the Consilium, secured a sanctum to work from and was wildly unprepared for what the city had in store.

==Life in the river city==

===Finding his feet and taking stock===
The river city Consilium was not what he had expected. His arrival brining the number up to four. No structure. No leadership. No officials. A glorious meeting location to be sure, something rather sullied to find the order wing of the Mysterium with lock taken off the door and utterly emptied. His eeliest endeavour made the space secure and useable again.

The first six months of time in the city were spent getting used to the society, grabbing bits of interesting history and getting to know the handful of fellow mages who called it home.

Meeting on note included a one to one sit down with [[Philip Crosen]] as the two hit it off on the wrong foot and after a series of encounters with growing tensions decided to try and see past their differences and talk it out, which they managed set the stage for the two to develop a loose friendship.

The first mage he invited to his Sanctum [[October]] a mage who had returned to the city after himself. They hit it off well in the informal setting and somehow settled on plans to try and revitalise the Consilium, a monumental undertaking he had not considered before they had this talk. he has since wondered if he was manipulated, albeit with the best of intentions, into the course of action.

The idea weighing heavy on his mind he [[Winter]] was invited next the mage he knew least of. This meeting proved to be beyond insightful learning winter was both a guardian and an Obrimos was only the beginning Chambers was also made aware of the deal struck by powers beyond his or the guardians preview that brought a ceasefire with the seers in Sacramento. Looking to balance the scales of the great secret Chambers told [[Winter]] of his ultimate goal to reform sympathy with the ghosts of Atlantis and shared with the Guardian his momentary name. Doubling as a safe guard of in a fashion in case the planned revival caused the Moros to walk from the path of wisdom.

===The great work begins===
January 2024 saw the first official Consilium meeting of the five mages. Small headway was made ideas introduced as much testing the waters as anything but it was deemed a successfully first step. After this October disappeared without a trace and he was left alone for a time in his efforts and plans. He still wonders what happened to the enchanter.

The following six to seven months saw mages new and returning flock to the city tripling their numbers. A combination of personal business concluding and the orders sending mages to bolster the desperately lacking resources of the river city Consilium. the advances in this time included getting the process of acknowledgement formalised to expedite it so mages no longer took several months to get through the process. He began minuting the notes of official meeting in [[Supernal Script]] so mages could be kept up to date on the political motions and decisions of the Consilium. Galling a little at the request that teach order wing have its own copy of the notes but making the willing sacrifice to provide the source of sympathy regards. A council was reformed with each path being represented to help fast track ideas and voices regarding official matters and provide some basis to enforce the Lex.

The greatest work to date however involved series commitment on his part. Thanks to the training provided by [[Aurora]] He was able to pass the [[Factotum]] exam and with this achievement begin writing a new charter for the Consilium to make it official once. A daunting and slow process but a very necessary one.

===Councillor of the path of Doom===
In September of 2024 [[Corn]] and [[Witch]] were invited to the first path meeting of the Moros. Here both Corn and Chambers made a bid for the position of councillor. [[Corn]] was quickly swayed by the arguments of the host and Chambers took the position appointing [[Witch]] as his provost. The Moros collectively decided they need a place to handle their business as a path rather then rely on mages opening their personal sanctums for the meetings.

===The Lex Magica and why it matters===
And now having meet with [[Aurora]] on a handle for occasions to plan out parts of the proposed charter Chambers has offered to meet and discuss the plans and propositions with any mage who so wishes to, under the understanding that not every idea and suggestion will make the final draft and a degree of maturity is needed. Their ancient laws are guides to wisdom and need to be respected. these separate the pentacle from the seers, from the left handed and from the Scelesti. They should not be discarded or handled lightly.

So far Chambers has met with:
[[Aurora]];
[[Phoenyx]]

==Hooks==
*Official documentation: Having recently studied for and passed the Factotum exam, Chambers is in the process of constructing a charter to serve the needs of the river city Consilium and actually make them official. He has welcomed anyway to meet and talk over the process, providing they accept not every idea will make it into the final article and we need to handle the conversations maturely.

*Pancryptia investigations: Only members of the Mysterium could begin to guess at his true motive but where possible Chambers does make the effort to walk among the city and observe the various events and festivals and gatherings in his hunt for the supernatural and supernal truth to unravel. You don't need to be a member of the Mysterium to meet up with him and talk philosophy in variety of locations of course. He does seem however to be looking for something specific.

*Importance of infrastructure: Chambers has been investing in infrastructure for the mages of the city to be better supported and prepared. He is always willing to both listen to and make his own suggestions about what are sound investments, following through of course.

*Traditionalist: Chambers sits pretty centrally as far as the traditions of his order goes. He values his word, tries not lie. Practices right exchange where he can and pays his debts of guanxi. At the moment he seems to be destined for a role as an archivist even if he privately laments that, he has little time to give a full investigation the respect it deserves. But this does mean he is willing to lend a support role where he can.

*Good time management: The man is highly efficient with his actions, something he attributes to good order, taking things step by step and not rushing. By taking the time to understand, he is fast without being hasty. Finding this means he gets tasks quickly even without the use of magic he is often available and willing to lend support to lengthy projects.

*A dying practice: The stone scribe practices the craft of masonry. Surprising no one. He uses his job making gravestones to justify investigations into victims of tragedy and hanging around graveyards. As his skill increases he becomes ever more fascinated with the idea of materials changing into objects. Well aware of the dangers it represents, he is more willing then most to work on joint crafting projects.

==Sheet Stuff==
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*[[Grim Sight]]
*[[Interconnections]]
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* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46390 A small but sacred duty (Historical)]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46474 Scouting for Names]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46486 The first Slab in a long road]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46549 Lovers of wisdom: Plato]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46756 Recent history: On the job]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?46804 The first commission]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47228 Copying up paper cuts July 2024]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47270 Stone dragon]
* [http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47572 Atlantean Inheritance our Ancient laws]
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Kray

2025-03-05T07:21:35Z

Kray: /* Spheres of influence */

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==The Man, The Ogre, The Monster==

===Mask===
Standing 7ft 6 inches and weighing in at 300lbs he really is a giant of a man, broad as a barn his muscles are not things curated for gym selfies but thick from use and abuse. The jug jaw can be said to be his most flattering feature, after the badly broken nose, limp locks of black hair starting to go grey and sharp shattered teeth, what must surely be the result of countless blows to the face. He wears a long poorly made overcoat, suspenders keep trousers up over a ill fitting white work shirt. A battered fedora is his only accessory. His shoes however are always shined and polished black leather, somethings are only proper after all.

Even when only perceiving the mask the looming and thuggish looking giant oozes menace and he threat of pain and violence with no real effort, something he leans into, often to great effect.

===Mein===
*Wyrd 1-2:
Standing an inch or so taller and broader than its already giant mask the blubbery ashen skin, splotched with chitinous scabs and bulbous fleshy worts look almost diseased. Wild and matted lichens and moss form a tangled mane of hair and beard. Thick trunk like, twisted, arms of exaggerated length, end in vast hands with dark chipped nails. The pillar like legs bow slightly. A barrel chest and obese gut only add to the immensity of the creature. A broad jaw houses a chaotic array of sharp and curving teeth resembling shards of stone that prevent complete mouth closure ensuring they are always on display. The flat squashed nose leads to the sickly yellow sclera of the vast bulbous eyes and pupils more akin to fragments of flint, in turn overshadowed by nubbin horns protruding from a wide forehead.

===Mantle===
''Mantle ●'' Source less, sorcerous candle flames flicker in and out.

''Mantle ●●'' The source less sorcerous candle flames spark into existence with grater frequency and in greater number casting the Ogre in the light and shadows of their illusory flames that flicker with increased tenacity and with greater range of motion.

===Crown===
During the months of Autumn Kray's crown is worn instead of his go to hedgespun hat.
*The band is a complex weave of jutting finger bones from which rise folded origami flames in shades of orange that move and flicker in a style akin to a shadow puppet show, while they themselves are lightless they cast shadows as if the paper flames were the real thing.

==History==

===Life before===
With the arrest of Reggie and Ronald Kray the firm seemed to collapse, that was not strictly true, the Krays had other family and associates that salvaged what they could just on a much smaller scale. Never to be the prince's of London as the two notorious gangsters had been. One such hanger on, more fan boy who idolised the twins, had always been big and always strong for his age the young man bit of more then he could chew inflicting and receiving violence on a regular basis he eschewed his schooling in favour of more criminal activities.

Attracting the attention of the now much lessened firm he took jobs as a wet worker and knee breaker, the work was not satisfying but it paid alright and made him feel important, powerful. In time the firm falling further and further caved to pressure from other gangs tearing at what little territory they still had, without what little protection that had offered him, two choices seemed prominent prison or death. During this time he was approached not by another gang but someone claiming to be a boxing coach, the hope of many a young east end man and being praised for his size and strength was all to easy to hood wink into a meeting alone in a place he did not know, and prison or death become his reality in ways he could never have imagined.

===Keeper, Durance, and Escape===
His Keeper was a towering mound of flesh dwarfing even the young burly man. Poured into a white pinstripe suit and bowler hat it had no conventional limbs, masses of fleshy tentacles snaked and slithered from the mass and when it would speak it might for ma mouth or might not, but always in lines of poetry and riddles.

This thing had shaped its realm in its image, or the realm had spat it forth as a manifestation of itself, Kray was never sure it might not be either. But it ruled over an ever hungry coliseum like structure, dark arched tunnels, under a reverse ziggurat of seating with balcony's overhanging for when it had special guests.

Its hobs and those it took, it made to fight in the pit of its arena, to what end a dangerous task not only because you had to win but because the fleshy arena itself would chew and gnaw at you if you stopped moving. If you wanted to eat well you had moments before your defeated foe was torn asunder by the place itself to rip off a few mouthfuls. Fighting and eating to survive in this way, made him the Ogre he is today. That being said even in this violent hell arcadia is more then terror, it is also wonder and the impossibilities he witnessed,

The escape came when Kray having noticed the way Keeper spoke choose one day to start imitating its speech patterns. This went on for sometime until the keeper overheard and was .. .well Kray was not sure what ... but it reacted .. badly ... after a vicious beating he was left to perish in his cell. A seemingly forgotten waste, this he turned to his advantage, the cell was after all made of flesh, the Ogre ate his way out and fled through the hedge to eventually burst free, still very far from what he called home having missed more then a few decades.

It is the power of speech that lead him pursue pledge craft and save his most eloquent speaking for when he performs that task. Otherwise he adopts something of a stuttered speech pattern, breaking the start of his sentences with sounds or single syllables. The observant might notice this becomes inconsistent when he gets angry or agitated.

===Fetch===
In an unusual twist he has no idea where it is and never bothers to find out. It could be this side of the Atlantic, it could be back in the UK, it could be dead. His life was headed for Wandsworth prison or dead in the gutter and the thing is welcome to that, he is far more interested in the possibilities this new start offers him.

===The first two years across the Atlantic===
Well what else would be the case for hulking Ogre with cannibalistic urges. The lost he encountered wanted more of the same violence and wrath, it came as a surprise to some then when he joined the Autumn court over summer. He is a very capable fighter and perfectly willing to engage in violence but its not wrath that motivates his actions. His might did not win him free, it does provide a convenient screen for mortals and lost alike to judge him however.

No he remembered words and their power, he remembered violence but also wonder, and more then anything he understood the place and power of fear. The way people avoided him, the power and wonder of magic, and the importance of misdirection. He also severely regrets squandering his childhood education but with time and money he plans to remedy that situation.

==The River city of Sacramento==
And so it was to leave behind those who could see not past the teeth and kith (he honestly hasn't eaten anyone since gets back no matter how tempted)he made his way around until he found Sacramento a good a place as any he reckoned.

===Under the Bridge===
His first encounter with the harvest king [[Anatole]] proved to me be most enlightening experience under the rail bridge they shared snacks and a drink as questions went both ways. Speaking to someone who understood Autumn and valued what the Ogre brought was a refreshing experience, although he was made to wait a few months till the winter solstice before offering glamour to the wyrdstone.

Prior to this he also met the spring queen [[Seraphina]] by chance in park in what at the time seemed a very pleasant encounter. Somehow in this first meeting they agreed agreed to exchange skills he would show her how to fight, she would teach him dream combat, something he knew little of and had less experience.

Running into both [[Anatole]] and the Summer queen [[Circe]] at an instrument only rendition of carols meant he was known to all monarchs present in the freehold at the time prior to the Winter solstice of 2023.

===Under the Earth===
His first significant contribution came when he helped a team of the lost lead by [[Circe]] to push a cart for some miles in the tunnels under [[Funderland]]. He did little more then provide muscle on this trip but it was needed. The debrief was more fruitful as he got more filled in on some issues and had ideas on how he could help.

In October of 2024 the now Autumn Monarch brought down a temporary wall so he [[Circe] and [[Sven Svelte]] could explore the sewers beyond and find a filtration pool and possible gate locations before helping build up a proper concealing wall to cut the tunnels off from mundane intrusion.

===When deals go south===
He showed [[Seraphina]] how he fought as promised even sparring and beating [[Vincent Black]] a couple of times as the beast joined in.

In return she had offered to teach him the basics of [[Oneiromachy]]. However what started as an interesting experience navigating and learning dream combat went south when he realised he stood no chance of challenging the spring queen with his environmental attacks he tried to get at her another way, using chains in his next attack, inspired by something he saw in her dream. Her retaliation knocked him from the dream with disastrous consequences.

Disoriented and mentally broken the derangement he suffered as a result shattered his sense of clarity. The words of the spring queen that night only serving to direct this feeling at herself as she claimed awareness and intention (perhaps not fully aware of the extent of the damage) to his suffering.

With the rumour mill active after the spring Equinox and the vernal queen quite public with her opinions. He soon learned she had also kicked [[Vincent Black]] out of his home, that the had been staying in by agreement with her, and knowing the effect that sudden changes can have on the lost became rather concerned.

Choosing to confide his damaged state of being and concerns in the harvest king [[Anatole]] the two agreed that someone should check up on [[Vincent Black]], the Ogre felt some reassurance he was not going to have to handle this alone, when the Autumn sovereign condemned the actions of the spring queen and handed the Ogre a rock. What Kray did not know was this was one of the last times he would see the dwarf.

Kray invited [[Vincent Black]] to his home after trying and failing to bring the topic up properly at a more social hang out. The meeting went about as well as can be expected when a crazy cannibal tries to give a shoulder to another lost, very badly. But he learnt a lot and was left under no illusion that [[Vincent Black]] was not as well as he claimed to be after digging past some of the bravado.

With the Autumn king's departure Kray had to grit his mighty teeth and confronted [[Seraphina]]. This meeting also went poorly much like the one with [[Vincent Black]] the spring sovereign departed unwilling to see it through to the end. Not before Kray made her aware of the damage and risk she was putting others in with her actions and got a promise from her never to teach dream fighting without the proper oath in place to stop further clarity loss. The Ogre made sure she knew he would not let her keep getting away with damaging the clarity of the lost in the freehold. The threat motivated by her doubling down that what she did was necessary.

===King by requirement===
At the Autumn Equinox of 2024 the great Ogre hosted the freehold at Ednas boarding house with food drink and books, here he as the only Ashen courtier took on the duty of the crown and title of dread lord of Sacramento.

==Edna's Boarding House==
During their second meeting under the bridge Kray and [[Anatole]] had both independently come to the conclusion the court of fear was not best served by having its base of operations in a theme park. Sharing ideas for how to remedy this situation it was agreed Kray's grand plans to move reopen and resurrect Edna's reputation was deemed both grand and worth the effort, this was not impacted by the departure of the Harvest king not long after they came to this agreement.

*As of August 2024 Kray came into the paperwork of ownership for [[Ednas Boarding House]]. What one Ogre started all those years ago, another Ogre will now bring out of its long slumber. Or that's how he likes to think about it.

==Not made for this world, no not like that==

===Mundane items of interest===

*Despite being a very proficient brawler Kray like to carry around a sledgehammer, old metal and wooden haft worn smooth from use.

*The leather long coat is thick and poorly made but can deaden a punch just fine and works well to add some flowing shadows to his figure.

===Hedgespun===

*A autumnal gift: The Fedora

'''Mask:''' A black battered fedora that has seen better days, moth eaten holes in the front and a ratty hat band around the body, big enough to fit him it is something he is almost never seen without.

'''Mein:''' Made of red Autumn leaves and banded by a ring of tiny straw scarecrows, the custom nature of the item is further shown by the holes placed with intention to prevent catching on his horn nubbins.

To his slight annoyance during the months of Autumn when his crown is manifest he can't wear the hat he is otherwise never seen without. A stark and visual reminder that he can't be both who he was and embrace the duties of the crown.

==Goals and Hooks==

===Gaming===

The Ogre has interest in games of chance and skill, not being very good at them he rarely plays for money or stakes rather taking some strange satisfaction from the game itself. This might seem to be at odds with habit of never indebting himself to anyone preferring to be as self reliant as he can.

===Learning===
he squandered his childhood education and seeks to remedy this, more of a learn by doing kind of Ogre then books reading he does however place great value on the written word despite being very bad with it himself.

===Labour===
Autumn is the working mans season or so his dad always used to say and he is never above getting his hands dirty or breaking a sweat when there is need.

===The Man in the black and beaten hat===
Kray is not the man the infamous place is named after, but he wants to be. A criminal through hand through he works to extended his reach to many spheres and slowly brick by brick build himself an empire from which he can influence the cities movements from the shadows. He knows people in the know and has friends in many places he is willing to use for his ends, or yours if your ready to make a deal.

==Contracts==
* [[Stone]] ●
* [[Oath and Punishment]] ●
* [[Dream Contracts]] ●
* [[Eternal Autumn]] ●
* [[Fleeting Autumn]] ●

==Glimpses==
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47039 Must it always end in violence?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47301 What does it mean to be strong?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47613 The monster they need]

==Spheres of influence==
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{{Bibliography}}{{Changeling Character}}

Kray

2025-03-05T07:20:47Z

Kray: /* Mundane items of interest */

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}}

==The Man, The Ogre, The Monster==

===Mask===
Standing 7ft 6 inches and weighing in at 300lbs he really is a giant of a man, broad as a barn his muscles are not things curated for gym selfies but thick from use and abuse. The jug jaw can be said to be his most flattering feature, after the badly broken nose, limp locks of black hair starting to go grey and sharp shattered teeth, what must surely be the result of countless blows to the face. He wears a long poorly made overcoat, suspenders keep trousers up over a ill fitting white work shirt. A battered fedora is his only accessory. His shoes however are always shined and polished black leather, somethings are only proper after all.

Even when only perceiving the mask the looming and thuggish looking giant oozes menace and he threat of pain and violence with no real effort, something he leans into, often to great effect.

===Mein===
*Wyrd 1-2:
Standing an inch or so taller and broader than its already giant mask the blubbery ashen skin, splotched with chitinous scabs and bulbous fleshy worts look almost diseased. Wild and matted lichens and moss form a tangled mane of hair and beard. Thick trunk like, twisted, arms of exaggerated length, end in vast hands with dark chipped nails. The pillar like legs bow slightly. A barrel chest and obese gut only add to the immensity of the creature. A broad jaw houses a chaotic array of sharp and curving teeth resembling shards of stone that prevent complete mouth closure ensuring they are always on display. The flat squashed nose leads to the sickly yellow sclera of the vast bulbous eyes and pupils more akin to fragments of flint, in turn overshadowed by nubbin horns protruding from a wide forehead.

===Mantle===
''Mantle ●'' Source less, sorcerous candle flames flicker in and out.

''Mantle ●●'' The source less sorcerous candle flames spark into existence with grater frequency and in greater number casting the Ogre in the light and shadows of their illusory flames that flicker with increased tenacity and with greater range of motion.

===Crown===
During the months of Autumn Kray's crown is worn instead of his go to hedgespun hat.
*The band is a complex weave of jutting finger bones from which rise folded origami flames in shades of orange that move and flicker in a style akin to a shadow puppet show, while they themselves are lightless they cast shadows as if the paper flames were the real thing.

==History==

===Life before===
With the arrest of Reggie and Ronald Kray the firm seemed to collapse, that was not strictly true, the Krays had other family and associates that salvaged what they could just on a much smaller scale. Never to be the prince's of London as the two notorious gangsters had been. One such hanger on, more fan boy who idolised the twins, had always been big and always strong for his age the young man bit of more then he could chew inflicting and receiving violence on a regular basis he eschewed his schooling in favour of more criminal activities.

Attracting the attention of the now much lessened firm he took jobs as a wet worker and knee breaker, the work was not satisfying but it paid alright and made him feel important, powerful. In time the firm falling further and further caved to pressure from other gangs tearing at what little territory they still had, without what little protection that had offered him, two choices seemed prominent prison or death. During this time he was approached not by another gang but someone claiming to be a boxing coach, the hope of many a young east end man and being praised for his size and strength was all to easy to hood wink into a meeting alone in a place he did not know, and prison or death become his reality in ways he could never have imagined.

===Keeper, Durance, and Escape===
His Keeper was a towering mound of flesh dwarfing even the young burly man. Poured into a white pinstripe suit and bowler hat it had no conventional limbs, masses of fleshy tentacles snaked and slithered from the mass and when it would speak it might for ma mouth or might not, but always in lines of poetry and riddles.

This thing had shaped its realm in its image, or the realm had spat it forth as a manifestation of itself, Kray was never sure it might not be either. But it ruled over an ever hungry coliseum like structure, dark arched tunnels, under a reverse ziggurat of seating with balcony's overhanging for when it had special guests.

Its hobs and those it took, it made to fight in the pit of its arena, to what end a dangerous task not only because you had to win but because the fleshy arena itself would chew and gnaw at you if you stopped moving. If you wanted to eat well you had moments before your defeated foe was torn asunder by the place itself to rip off a few mouthfuls. Fighting and eating to survive in this way, made him the Ogre he is today. That being said even in this violent hell arcadia is more then terror, it is also wonder and the impossibilities he witnessed,

The escape came when Kray having noticed the way Keeper spoke choose one day to start imitating its speech patterns. This went on for sometime until the keeper overheard and was .. .well Kray was not sure what ... but it reacted .. badly ... after a vicious beating he was left to perish in his cell. A seemingly forgotten waste, this he turned to his advantage, the cell was after all made of flesh, the Ogre ate his way out and fled through the hedge to eventually burst free, still very far from what he called home having missed more then a few decades.

It is the power of speech that lead him pursue pledge craft and save his most eloquent speaking for when he performs that task. Otherwise he adopts something of a stuttered speech pattern, breaking the start of his sentences with sounds or single syllables. The observant might notice this becomes inconsistent when he gets angry or agitated.

===Fetch===
In an unusual twist he has no idea where it is and never bothers to find out. It could be this side of the Atlantic, it could be back in the UK, it could be dead. His life was headed for Wandsworth prison or dead in the gutter and the thing is welcome to that, he is far more interested in the possibilities this new start offers him.

===The first two years across the Atlantic===
Well what else would be the case for hulking Ogre with cannibalistic urges. The lost he encountered wanted more of the same violence and wrath, it came as a surprise to some then when he joined the Autumn court over summer. He is a very capable fighter and perfectly willing to engage in violence but its not wrath that motivates his actions. His might did not win him free, it does provide a convenient screen for mortals and lost alike to judge him however.

No he remembered words and their power, he remembered violence but also wonder, and more then anything he understood the place and power of fear. The way people avoided him, the power and wonder of magic, and the importance of misdirection. He also severely regrets squandering his childhood education but with time and money he plans to remedy that situation.

==The River city of Sacramento==
And so it was to leave behind those who could see not past the teeth and kith (he honestly hasn't eaten anyone since gets back no matter how tempted)he made his way around until he found Sacramento a good a place as any he reckoned.

===Under the Bridge===
His first encounter with the harvest king [[Anatole]] proved to me be most enlightening experience under the rail bridge they shared snacks and a drink as questions went both ways. Speaking to someone who understood Autumn and valued what the Ogre brought was a refreshing experience, although he was made to wait a few months till the winter solstice before offering glamour to the wyrdstone.

Prior to this he also met the spring queen [[Seraphina]] by chance in park in what at the time seemed a very pleasant encounter. Somehow in this first meeting they agreed agreed to exchange skills he would show her how to fight, she would teach him dream combat, something he knew little of and had less experience.

Running into both [[Anatole]] and the Summer queen [[Circe]] at an instrument only rendition of carols meant he was known to all monarchs present in the freehold at the time prior to the Winter solstice of 2023.

===Under the Earth===
His first significant contribution came when he helped a team of the lost lead by [[Circe]] to push a cart for some miles in the tunnels under [[Funderland]]. He did little more then provide muscle on this trip but it was needed. The debrief was more fruitful as he got more filled in on some issues and had ideas on how he could help.

In October of 2024 the now Autumn Monarch brought down a temporary wall so he [[Circe] and [[Sven Svelte]] could explore the sewers beyond and find a filtration pool and possible gate locations before helping build up a proper concealing wall to cut the tunnels off from mundane intrusion.

===When deals go south===
He showed [[Seraphina]] how he fought as promised even sparring and beating [[Vincent Black]] a couple of times as the beast joined in.

In return she had offered to teach him the basics of [[Oneiromachy]]. However what started as an interesting experience navigating and learning dream combat went south when he realised he stood no chance of challenging the spring queen with his environmental attacks he tried to get at her another way, using chains in his next attack, inspired by something he saw in her dream. Her retaliation knocked him from the dream with disastrous consequences.

Disoriented and mentally broken the derangement he suffered as a result shattered his sense of clarity. The words of the spring queen that night only serving to direct this feeling at herself as she claimed awareness and intention (perhaps not fully aware of the extent of the damage) to his suffering.

With the rumour mill active after the spring Equinox and the vernal queen quite public with her opinions. He soon learned she had also kicked [[Vincent Black]] out of his home, that the had been staying in by agreement with her, and knowing the effect that sudden changes can have on the lost became rather concerned.

Choosing to confide his damaged state of being and concerns in the harvest king [[Anatole]] the two agreed that someone should check up on [[Vincent Black]], the Ogre felt some reassurance he was not going to have to handle this alone, when the Autumn sovereign condemned the actions of the spring queen and handed the Ogre a rock. What Kray did not know was this was one of the last times he would see the dwarf.

Kray invited [[Vincent Black]] to his home after trying and failing to bring the topic up properly at a more social hang out. The meeting went about as well as can be expected when a crazy cannibal tries to give a shoulder to another lost, very badly. But he learnt a lot and was left under no illusion that [[Vincent Black]] was not as well as he claimed to be after digging past some of the bravado.

With the Autumn king's departure Kray had to grit his mighty teeth and confronted [[Seraphina]]. This meeting also went poorly much like the one with [[Vincent Black]] the spring sovereign departed unwilling to see it through to the end. Not before Kray made her aware of the damage and risk she was putting others in with her actions and got a promise from her never to teach dream fighting without the proper oath in place to stop further clarity loss. The Ogre made sure she knew he would not let her keep getting away with damaging the clarity of the lost in the freehold. The threat motivated by her doubling down that what she did was necessary.

===King by requirement===
At the Autumn Equinox of 2024 the great Ogre hosted the freehold at Ednas boarding house with food drink and books, here he as the only Ashen courtier took on the duty of the crown and title of dread lord of Sacramento.

==Edna's Boarding House==
During their second meeting under the bridge Kray and [[Anatole]] had both independently come to the conclusion the court of fear was not best served by having its base of operations in a theme park. Sharing ideas for how to remedy this situation it was agreed Kray's grand plans to move reopen and resurrect Edna's reputation was deemed both grand and worth the effort, this was not impacted by the departure of the Harvest king not long after they came to this agreement.

*As of August 2024 Kray came into the paperwork of ownership for [[Ednas Boarding House]]. What one Ogre started all those years ago, another Ogre will now bring out of its long slumber. Or that's how he likes to think about it.

==Not made for this world, no not like that==

===Mundane items of interest===

*Despite being a very proficient brawler Kray like to carry around a sledgehammer, old metal and wooden haft worn smooth from use.

*The leather long coat is thick and poorly made but can deaden a punch just fine and works well to add some flowing shadows to his figure.

===Hedgespun===

*A autumnal gift: The Fedora

'''Mask:''' A black battered fedora that has seen better days, moth eaten holes in the front and a ratty hat band around the body, big enough to fit him it is something he is almost never seen without.

'''Mein:''' Made of red Autumn leaves and banded by a ring of tiny straw scarecrows, the custom nature of the item is further shown by the holes placed with intention to prevent catching on his horn nubbins.

To his slight annoyance during the months of Autumn when his crown is manifest he can't wear the hat he is otherwise never seen without. A stark and visual reminder that he can't be both who he was and embrace the duties of the crown.

==Goals and Hooks==

===Gaming===

The Ogre has interest in games of chance and skill, not being very good at them he rarely plays for money or stakes rather taking some strange satisfaction from the game itself. This might seem to be at odds with habit of never indebting himself to anyone preferring to be as self reliant as he can.

===Learning===
he squandered his childhood education and seeks to remedy this, more of a learn by doing kind of Ogre then books reading he does however place great value on the written word despite being very bad with it himself.

===Labour===
Autumn is the working mans season or so his dad always used to say and he is never above getting his hands dirty or breaking a sweat when there is need.

===The Man in the black and beaten hat===
Kray is not the man the infamous place is named after, but he wants to be. A criminal through hand through he works to extended his reach to many spheres and slowly brick by brick build himself an empire from which he can influence the cities movements from the shadows. He knows people in the know and has friends in many places he is willing to use for his ends, or yours if your ready to make a deal.

==Contracts==
* [[Stone]] ●
* [[Oath and Punishment]] ●
* [[Dream Contracts]] ●
* [[Eternal Autumn]] ●
* [[Fleeting Autumn]] ●

==Glimpses==
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47039 Must it always end in violence?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47301 What does it mean to be strong?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47613 The monster they need]

==Spheres of influence==
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{{Bibliography}}{{Changeling Character}}

Kray

2024-12-21T07:17:41Z

Kray: /* Mask */

{{Char
|threadid=46526
|Avatar=Mark William Calaway
|pic2=Yes
|Quote=Huh. Now tell me, why do you lock your doors at night?
|box1=[[Preadators Gaze]] [[Giant]] [[Strong Back]] {{Has Merit|Distinctive Voice|2}} (Baritone) [[Iron Stomach]]
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|box3={{Has Merit|Resources|3}} {{Has Merit|Pledgesmith|3}} {{Has Merit|Brute Force|3}}
}}

==The Man, The Ogre, The Monster==

===Mask===
Standing 7ft 6 inches and weighing in at 300lbs he really is a giant of a man, broad as a barn his muscles are not things curated for gym selfies but thick from use and abuse. The jug jaw can be said to be his most flattering feature, after the badly broken nose, limp locks of black hair starting to go grey and sharp shattered teeth, what must surely be the result of countless blows to the face. He wears a long poorly made overcoat, suspenders keep trousers up over a ill fitting white work shirt. A battered fedora is his only accessory. His shoes however are always shined and polished black leather, somethings are only proper after all.

Even when only perceiving the mask the looming and thuggish looking giant oozes menace and he threat of pain and violence with no real effort, something he leans into, often to great effect.

===Mein===
*Wyrd 1-2:
Standing an inch or so taller and broader than its already giant mask the blubbery ashen skin, splotched with chitinous scabs and bulbous fleshy worts look almost diseased. Wild and matted lichens and moss form a tangled mane of hair and beard. Thick trunk like, twisted, arms of exaggerated length, end in vast hands with dark chipped nails. The pillar like legs bow slightly. A barrel chest and obese gut only add to the immensity of the creature. A broad jaw houses a chaotic array of sharp and curving teeth resembling shards of stone that prevent complete mouth closure ensuring they are always on display. The flat squashed nose leads to the sickly yellow sclera of the vast bulbous eyes and pupils more akin to fragments of flint, in turn overshadowed by nubbin horns protruding from a wide forehead.

===Mantle===
''Mantle ●'' Source less, sorcerous candle flames flicker in and out.

''Mantle ●●'' The source less sorcerous candle flames spark into existence with grater frequency and in greater number casting the Ogre in the light and shadows of their illusory flames that flicker with increased tenacity and with greater range of motion.

===Crown===
During the months of Autumn Kray's crown is worn instead of his go to hedgespun hat.
*The band is a complex weave of jutting finger bones from which rise folded origami flames in shades of orange that move and flicker in a style akin to a shadow puppet show, while they themselves are lightless they cast shadows as if the paper flames were the real thing.

==History==

===Life before===
With the arrest of Reggie and Ronald Kray the firm seemed to collapse, that was not strictly true, the Krays had other family and associates that salvaged what they could just on a much smaller scale. Never to be the prince's of London as the two notorious gangsters had been. One such hanger on, more fan boy who idolised the twins, had always been big and always strong for his age the young man bit of more then he could chew inflicting and receiving violence on a regular basis he eschewed his schooling in favour of more criminal activities.

Attracting the attention of the now much lessened firm he took jobs as a wet worker and knee breaker, the work was not satisfying but it paid alright and made him feel important, powerful. In time the firm falling further and further caved to pressure from other gangs tearing at what little territory they still had, without what little protection that had offered him, two choices seemed prominent prison or death. During this time he was approached not by another gang but someone claiming to be a boxing coach, the hope of many a young east end man and being praised for his size and strength was all to easy to hood wink into a meeting alone in a place he did not know, and prison or death become his reality in ways he could never have imagined.

===Keeper, Durance, and Escape===
His Keeper was a towering mound of flesh dwarfing even the young burly man. Poured into a white pinstripe suit and bowler hat it had no conventional limbs, masses of fleshy tentacles snaked and slithered from the mass and when it would speak it might for ma mouth or might not, but always in lines of poetry and riddles.

This thing had shaped its realm in its image, or the realm had spat it forth as a manifestation of itself, Kray was never sure it might not be either. But it ruled over an ever hungry coliseum like structure, dark arched tunnels, under a reverse ziggurat of seating with balcony's overhanging for when it had special guests.

Its hobs and those it took, it made to fight in the pit of its arena, to what end a dangerous task not only because you had to win but because the fleshy arena itself would chew and gnaw at you if you stopped moving. If you wanted to eat well you had moments before your defeated foe was torn asunder by the place itself to rip off a few mouthfuls. Fighting and eating to survive in this way, made him the Ogre he is today. That being said even in this violent hell arcadia is more then terror, it is also wonder and the impossibilities he witnessed,

The escape came when Kray having noticed the way Keeper spoke choose one day to start imitating its speech patterns. This went on for sometime until the keeper overheard and was .. .well Kray was not sure what ... but it reacted .. badly ... after a vicious beating he was left to perish in his cell. A seemingly forgotten waste, this he turned to his advantage, the cell was after all made of flesh, the Ogre ate his way out and fled through the hedge to eventually burst free, still very far from what he called home having missed more then a few decades.

It is the power of speech that lead him pursue pledge craft and save his most eloquent speaking for when he performs that task. Otherwise he adopts something of a stuttered speech pattern, breaking the start of his sentences with sounds or single syllables. The observant might notice this becomes inconsistent when he gets angry or agitated.

===Fetch===
In an unusual twist he has no idea where it is and never bothers to find out. It could be this side of the Atlantic, it could be back in the UK, it could be dead. His life was headed for Wandsworth prison or dead in the gutter and the thing is welcome to that, he is far more interested in the possibilities this new start offers him.

===The first two years across the Atlantic===
Well what else would be the case for hulking Ogre with cannibalistic urges. The lost he encountered wanted more of the same violence and wrath, it came as a surprise to some then when he joined the Autumn court over summer. He is a very capable fighter and perfectly willing to engage in violence but its not wrath that motivates his actions. His might did not win him free, it does provide a convenient screen for mortals and lost alike to judge him however.

No he remembered words and their power, he remembered violence but also wonder, and more then anything he understood the place and power of fear. The way people avoided him, the power and wonder of magic, and the importance of misdirection. He also severely regrets squandering his childhood education but with time and money he plans to remedy that situation.

==The River city of Sacramento==
And so it was to leave behind those who could see not past the teeth and kith (he honestly hasn't eaten anyone since gets back no matter how tempted)he made his way around until he found Sacramento a good a place as any he reckoned.

===Under the Bridge===
His first encounter with the harvest king [[Anatole]] proved to me be most enlightening experience under the rail bridge they shared snacks and a drink as questions went both ways. Speaking to someone who understood Autumn and valued what the Ogre brought was a refreshing experience, although he was made to wait a few months till the winter solstice before offering glamour to the wyrdstone.

Prior to this he also met the spring queen [[Seraphina]] by chance in park in what at the time seemed a very pleasant encounter. Somehow in this first meeting they agreed agreed to exchange skills he would show her how to fight, she would teach him dream combat, something he knew little of and had less experience.

Running into both [[Anatole]] and the Summer queen [[Circe]] at an instrument only rendition of carols meant he was known to all monarchs present in the freehold at the time prior to the Winter solstice of 2023.

===Under the Earth===
His first significant contribution came when he helped a team of the lost lead by [[Circe]] to push a cart for some miles in the tunnels under [[Funderland]]. He did little more then provide muscle on this trip but it was needed. The debrief was more fruitful as he got more filled in on some issues and had ideas on how he could help.

In October of 2024 the now Autumn Monarch brought down a temporary wall so he [[Circe] and [[Sven Svelte]] could explore the sewers beyond and find a filtration pool and possible gate locations before helping build up a proper concealing wall to cut the tunnels off from mundane intrusion.

===When deals go south===
He showed [[Seraphina]] how he fought as promised even sparring and beating [[Vincent Black]] a couple of times as the beast joined in.

In return she had offered to teach him the basics of [[Oneiromachy]]. However what started as an interesting experience navigating and learning dream combat went south when he realised he stood no chance of challenging the spring queen with his environmental attacks he tried to get at her another way, using chains in his next attack, inspired by something he saw in her dream. Her retaliation knocked him from the dream with disastrous consequences.

Disoriented and mentally broken the derangement he suffered as a result shattered his sense of clarity. The words of the spring queen that night only serving to direct this feeling at herself as she claimed awareness and intention (perhaps not fully aware of the extent of the damage) to his suffering.

With the rumour mill active after the spring Equinox and the vernal queen quite public with her opinions. He soon learned she had also kicked [[Vincent Black]] out of his home, that the had been staying in by agreement with her, and knowing the effect that sudden changes can have on the lost became rather concerned.

Choosing to confide his damaged state of being and concerns in the harvest king [[Anatole]] the two agreed that someone should check up on [[Vincent Black]], the Ogre felt some reassurance he was not going to have to handle this alone, when the Autumn sovereign condemned the actions of the spring queen and handed the Ogre a rock. What Kray did not know was this was one of the last times he would see the dwarf.

Kray invited [[Vincent Black]] to his home after trying and failing to bring the topic up properly at a more social hang out. The meeting went about as well as can be expected when a crazy cannibal tries to give a shoulder to another lost, very badly. But he learnt a lot and was left under no illusion that [[Vincent Black]] was not as well as he claimed to be after digging past some of the bravado.

With the Autumn king's departure Kray had to grit his mighty teeth and confronted [[Seraphina]]. This meeting also went poorly much like the one with [[Vincent Black]] the spring sovereign departed unwilling to see it through to the end. Not before Kray made her aware of the damage and risk she was putting others in with her actions and got a promise from her never to teach dream fighting without the proper oath in place to stop further clarity loss. The Ogre made sure she knew he would not let her keep getting away with damaging the clarity of the lost in the freehold. The threat motivated by her doubling down that what she did was necessary.

===King by requirement===
At the Autumn Equinox of 2024 the great Ogre hosted the freehold at Ednas boarding house with food drink and books, here he as the only Ashen courtier took on the duty of the crown and title of dread lord of Sacramento.

==Edna's Boarding House==
During their second meeting under the bridge Kray and [[Anatole]] had both independently come to the conclusion the court of fear was not best served by having its base of operations in a theme park. Sharing ideas for how to remedy this situation it was agreed Kray's grand plans to move reopen and resurrect Edna's reputation was deemed both grand and worth the effort, this was not impacted by the departure of the Harvest king not long after they came to this agreement.

*As of August 2024 Kray came into the paperwork of ownership for [[Ednas Boarding House]]. What one Ogre started all those years ago, another Ogre will now bring out of its long slumber. Or that's how he likes to think about it.

==Not made for this world, no not like that==

===Mundane items of interest===

*Despite being a very proficient brawler Kray like to carry around a sledgehammer, old metal and wooden haft worn smooth from use.

*The leather long coat is thick and poorly made but can deaden a punch just fine and works well to add some flowing shadows to his figure.

*His car is a long suffering Beaten up Ford Vedette, that has a habit of breaking down but he refuses to get rid of it instead he keeps replacing the parts and forcing it to live on.

===Hedgespun===

*A autumnal gift: The Fedora

'''Mask:''' A black battered fedora that has seen better days, moth eaten holes in the front and a ratty hat band around the body, big enough to fit him it is something he is almost never seen without.

'''Mein:''' Made of red Autumn leaves and banded by a ring of tiny straw scarecrows, the custom nature of the item is further shown by the holes placed with intention to prevent catching on his horn nubbins.

To his slight annoyance during the months of Autumn when his crown is manifest he can't wear the hat he is otherwise never seen without. A stark and visual reminder that he can't be both who he was and embrace the duties of the crown.

==Goals and Hooks==

===Gaming===

The Ogre has interest in games of chance and skill, not being very good at them he rarely plays for money or stakes rather taking some strange satisfaction from the game itself. This might seem to be at odds with habit of never indebting himself to anyone preferring to be as self reliant as he can.

===Learning===
he squandered his childhood education and seeks to remedy this, more of a learn by doing kind of Ogre then books reading he does however place great value on the written word despite being very bad with it himself.

===Labour===
Autumn is the working mans season or so his dad always used to say and he is never above getting his hands dirty or breaking a sweat when there is need.

===The Man in the black and beaten hat===
Kray is not the man the infamous place is named after, but he wants to be. A criminal through hand through he works to extended his reach to many spheres and slowly brick by brick build himself an empire from which he can influence the cities movements from the shadows. He knows people in the know and has friends in many places he is willing to use for his ends, or yours if your ready to make a deal.

==Contracts==
* [[Stone]] ●
* [[Oath and Punishment]] ●
* [[Dream Contracts]] ●
* [[Eternal Autumn]] ●
* [[Fleeting Autumn]] ●

==Glimpses==
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47039 Must it always end in violence?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47301 What does it mean to be strong?]
*[http://nwod.org/forum/showthread.php?47613 The monster they need]

==Spheres of influence==
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File:Kray.jpg

2024-09-20T21:26:27Z

Kray:

Kray

2024-09-15T12:16:22Z

Kray: /* Edna's Boarding House */

{{Char
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|Avatar = Mark William Calaway
|pic2 =
|box1 = [[Preadators Gaze]]
|box2 = {{Has Merit|Distinctive Voice|2}} (Baritone)
|box3 = [[Giant]]
|Quote = Huh. Now tell me, why do you lock your doors at night?
}}

==The Man, The Ogre, The Monster==

===Mask===
A giant of a man, broad as a barn his muscles are not things curated for gym selfies but thick from use and abuse. The jug jaw can be said to be his most flattering feature, after the badly broken nose, limp locks of black hair starting to go grey and sharp shattered teeth, what must surely be the result of countless blows to the face. He wears a long poorly made overcoat, suspenders keep trousers up over a ill fitting white work shirt. A battered fedora is his only accessory. His shoes however are always shined and polished black leather, somethings are only proper after all.

Even when only perceiving the mask the looming and thuggish looking giant oozes menace and he threat of pain and violence with no real effort, something he leans into to often great effect.

===Mein===
Standing an inch or so taller and broader than its already giant mask the blubbery ashen skin, splotched with chitinous scabs and bulbous fleshy worts look almost diseased. Wild and matted lichens and moss form a tangled mane of hair and beard. Thick trunk like, twisted, arms of exaggerated length, end in vast hands with dark chipped nails. The pillar like legs bow slightly. A barrel chest and obese gut only add to the immensity of the creature. A broad jaw houses a chaotic array of sharp and curving teeth resembling shards of stone that prevent complete mouth closure ensuring they are always on display. The flat squashed nose leads to the sickly yellow sclera of the vast bulbous eyes and pupils more akin to fragments of flint, in turn overshadowed by nubbin horns protruding from a wide forehead.

==History==

===Life before===
With the arrest of Reggie and Ronald Kray the firm seemed to collapse, that was not strictly true, the Krays had other family and associates that salvaged what they could just on a much smaller scale. Never to be the prince's of London as the two notorious gangsters had been. Always big and always strong for his age the young man bit of more then he could chew inflicting and receiving violence on a regular basis he eschewed his schooling in favour of more criminal activities.

Attracting the attention of the now much lessened firm he took jobs as a wet worker and knee breaker, the work was not satisfying but it paid alright and made him feel important, powerful. In time the firm falling further and further caved to pressure from other gangs tearing at what little territory they still had, without what little protection that had offered him, two choices seemed prominent prison or death. During this time he was approached not by another gang but someone claiming to be a boxing coach, the hope of many a young east end man and being praised for his size and strength was all to easy to hood wink into a meeting alone in a place he did not know, and prison or death become his reality in ways he could never have imagined.

===Keeper, Durance, and Escape===
His Keeper was a towering mound of flesh dwarfing even the young burly man. Poured into a white pinstripe suit and bowler hat it had no conventional limbs, masses of fleshy tentacles snaked and slithered from the mass and when it would speak it might for ma mouth or might not, but always in lines of poetry and riddles.

This thing had shaped its realm in its image, or the realm had spat it forth as a manifestation of itself, Kray was never sure it might not be either. But it ruled over an ever hungry coliseum like structure, dark arched tunnels, under a reverse ziggurat of seating with balcony's overhanging for when it had special guests.

Its hobs and those it took, it made to fight in the pit of its arena, to what end a dangerous task not only because you had to win but because the fleshy arena itself would chew and gnaw at you if you stopped moving. If you wanted to eat well you had moments before your defeated foe was torn asunder by the place itself to rip off a few mouthfuls. Fighting and eating to survive in this way, made him the Ogre he is today. That being said even in this violent hell arcadia is more then terror, it is also wonder and the impossibilities he witnessed,

The escape came when Kray having noticed the way Keeper spoke choose one day to start imitating its speech patterns. This went on for sometime until the keeper overheard and was .. .well Kray was not sure what ... but it reacted .. badly ... after a vicious beating he was left to perish in his cell. A seemingly forgotten waste, this he turned to his advantage, the cell was after all made of flesh, the Ogre ate his way out and fled through the hedge to eventually burst free, still very far from what he called home having missed more then a few decades.

It is the power of speech that lead him pursue pledge craft and save his most eloquent speaking for when he performs that task. Otherwise he adopts something of a stuttered speech pattern, breaking the start of his sentences with sounds or single syllables. The observant might notice this becomes inconsistent when he gets angry or agitated.

===Fetch===
In an unusual twist he has no idea where it is and never bothers to find out. It could be this side of the Atlantic, it could be back in the UK, it could be dead. His life was headed for Wandsworth prison or dead in the gutter and the thing is welcome to that, he is far more interested in the possibilities this new start offers him.

===The first two years across the Atlantic===
Well what else would be the case for hulking Ogre with cannibalistic urges. The lost he encountered wanted more of the same violence and wrath, it came as a surprise to some then when he joined the Autumn court over summer. He is a very capable fighter and perfectly willing to engage in violence but its not wrath that motivates his actions. His might did not win him free, it does provide a convenient screen for mortals and lost alike to judge him however.

No he remembered words and their power, he remembered violence but also wonder, and more then anything he understood the place and power of fear. The way people avoided him, the power and wonder of magic, and the importance of misdirection. He also severely regrets squandering his childhood education but with time and money he plans to remedy that situation.

==The River city of Sacramento==
And so it was to leave behind those who could see not past the teeth and kith (he honestly hasn't eaten anyone since gets back no matter how tempted)he made his way around until he found Sacramento a good a place as any he reckoned.

===Under the Bridge===
His first encounter with the harvest king Anatole proved to me be most enlightening experience under the rail bridge they shared snacks and a drink as questions went both ways. Speaking to someone who understood Autumn and valued what the Ogre brought was a refreshing experience, although he was made to wait a few months till the winter solstice before offering glamour to the wyrdstone.

Prior to this he also met the spring queen Sera by chance in park in what at the time seemed a very pleasant encounter. Somehow in this first meeting they agreed agreed to exchange skills he would show her how to fight, she would teach him dream combat, something he knew little of and had less experience.

Running into both Anatole and the Summer queen Circe at an instrument only rendition of carols meant he was known to all monarchs present in the freehold at the time prior to the Winter solstice.

===Under the Earth===
His first significant contribution came when he helped a team of the lost lead by Circe to push a cart for some miles in the tunnels under funderland. He did little more then provide muscle on this trip but it was needed. The debrief was more fruitful as he got more filled in on some issues and had ideas on how he could help.

===When deals go south===
He showed Sera how he fought as promised even sparring and beating Vincent a couple of times as the beast joined in.

However what started as an interesting experience navigating and learning dream combat went south when he realised he stood no chance of challenging the spring queen with his environmental attacks he tried to get at her another way, using chains in his next attack, inspired by something he saw in her dream. Her retaliation knocked him from the dream with disastrous consequences.

Disoriented and mentally broken the derangement he suffered as a result shattered his sense of clarity. The words of the spring queen that night only serving to direct this feeling at herself as she claimed awareness and intention (perhaps not fully aware of the extent of the damage) to his suffering.

He soon learned she had also kicked Vincent out of his home, that the had been staying in by agreement with her, and knowing the effect that sudden changes can have on the lost become rather concerned.

Choosing to confide his damaged state of being and concerns in the harvest king Anatole the two agreed that someone should check up on Vincent, the Ogre felt some reassurance he was not going to have to handle this alone, when the Autumn sovereign condemned the actions of the spring and handed the Ogre a rock. What Kray did not know was this was one of the last times he would see the dwarf.

Kray invited Vincent to his home after trying and failing to bring the topic up properly at a more social hang out. The meeting went about as well as can be expected when a crazy cannibal tries to give therapy to another lost, very badly. But he learnt a lot and was left under no illusion that Vincent was not as well as he claimed to be after digging past some of the bravado.

With the Autumn king's departure Kray had to grit his mighty teeth and confronted the spring sovereign herself. This meeting also went poorly much like Vincent the spring sovereign departed unwilling to see it through to the end. Not before Kray made her aware of the damage and risk she was putting others in with her actions and got a promise from her never to teach dream fighting without the proper oath in place to stop further clarity loss. The Ogre made sure she knew he would not let her keep getting away with damaging the clarity of the lost in the freehold.

==Edna's Boarding House==
During their second meeting under the bridge Kray an Anatole had both independently come to the conclusion the court of fear was not best served by having its base of operations in a theme park. Sharing ideas for how to remedy this situation it was agreed Kray's grand plans to move reopen and resurrect Edna's reputation was deemed both grand and worth the effort, this was not impacted by the departure of the Harvest kingnot long after they came to this agreement.

As of August 2024 Kray came into the paperwork of ownership for the property. What one Ogre started all those years ago, another Ogre will now bring out of its long slumber. Or that's how he likes to think about it.

==Not made for this world, no not like that==

===Mundane items of interest===

Despite being a very proficient brawler Kray like to carry around a sledgehammer, old metal and wooden haft worn smooth from use.

The leather long coat is thick and poorly made but can deaden a punch just fine and works well to add some flowing shadows to his figure.

His car is a long suffering Beaten up Ford Vedette, that has a habit of breaking down but he refuses to get rid of it instead he keeps replacing the parts and forcing it to live on.

===Hedgespun===

A autumnal gift: The Fedora

Mask: A black battered fedora that has seen better days, moth eaten holes in the front and a ratty hat band around the body, big enough to fit him it is something he is almost never seen without.

Mein: Made of red Autumn leaves and banded by a ring of tiny straw scarecrows, the custom nature of the item is further shown by the holes placed with intention to prevent catching on his horn nubbins.

==Goals and Hooks==

===Gaming===

The Ogre has interest in games of chance and skill, not being very good at them he rarely plays for money or stakes rather taking some strange satisfaction from the game itself. This might seem to be at odds with habit of never indebting himself to anyone preferring to be as self reliant as he can.

===Learning===
he squandered his childhood education and seeks to remedy this, more of a learn by doing kind of Ogre then books reading he does however place great value on the written word despite being very bad with it himself.

===Labour===
Autumn is the working mans season or so his dad always used to say and he is never above getting his hands dirty or breaking a sweat when there is need.

===The Man in the black and beaten hat===
Kray is not the man the infamous place is named after, but he wants to be. A criminal through hand through he works to extended his reach to many spheres and slowly brick by brick build himself an empire from which he can influence the cities movements from the shadows. He knows people in the know and has friends in many places he is willing to use for his ends, or yours if your ready to make a deal.


{{Bibliography}}{{Changeling Character}}

Kray

2024-09-15T12:08:09Z

Kray: /* The Man, The Ogre, The monster */

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|Avatar = Mark William Calaway
|pic2 =
|box1 = [[Preadators Gaze]]
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|box3 = [[Giant]]
|Quote = Huh. Now tell me, why do you lock your doors at night?
}}

==The Man, The Ogre, The Monster==

===Mask===
A giant of a man, broad as a barn his muscles are not things curated for gym selfies but thick from use and abuse. The jug jaw can be said to be his most flattering feature, after the badly broken nose, limp locks of black hair starting to go grey and sharp shattered teeth, what must surely be the result of countless blows to the face. He wears a long poorly made overcoat, suspenders keep trousers up over a ill fitting white work shirt. A battered fedora is his only accessory. His shoes however are always shined and polished black leather, somethings are only proper after all.

Even when only perceiving the mask the looming and thuggish looking giant oozes menace and he threat of pain and violence with no real effort, something he leans into to often great effect.

===Mein===
Standing an inch or so taller and broader than its already giant mask the blubbery ashen skin, splotched with chitinous scabs and bulbous fleshy worts look almost diseased. Wild and matted lichens and moss form a tangled mane of hair and beard. Thick trunk like, twisted, arms of exaggerated length, end in vast hands with dark chipped nails. The pillar like legs bow slightly. A barrel chest and obese gut only add to the immensity of the creature. A broad jaw houses a chaotic array of sharp and curving teeth resembling shards of stone that prevent complete mouth closure ensuring they are always on display. The flat squashed nose leads to the sickly yellow sclera of the vast bulbous eyes and pupils more akin to fragments of flint, in turn overshadowed by nubbin horns protruding from a wide forehead.

==History==

===Life before===
With the arrest of Reggie and Ronald Kray the firm seemed to collapse, that was not strictly true, the Krays had other family and associates that salvaged what they could just on a much smaller scale. Never to be the prince's of London as the two notorious gangsters had been. Always big and always strong for his age the young man bit of more then he could chew inflicting and receiving violence on a regular basis he eschewed his schooling in favour of more criminal activities.

Attracting the attention of the now much lessened firm he took jobs as a wet worker and knee breaker, the work was not satisfying but it paid alright and made him feel important, powerful. In time the firm falling further and further caved to pressure from other gangs tearing at what little territory they still had, without what little protection that had offered him, two choices seemed prominent prison or death. During this time he was approached not by another gang but someone claiming to be a boxing coach, the hope of many a young east end man and being praised for his size and strength was all to easy to hood wink into a meeting alone in a place he did not know, and prison or death become his reality in ways he could never have imagined.

===Keeper, Durance, and Escape===
His Keeper was a towering mound of flesh dwarfing even the young burly man. Poured into a white pinstripe suit and bowler hat it had no conventional limbs, masses of fleshy tentacles snaked and slithered from the mass and when it would speak it might for ma mouth or might not, but always in lines of poetry and riddles.

This thing had shaped its realm in its image, or the realm had spat it forth as a manifestation of itself, Kray was never sure it might not be either. But it ruled over an ever hungry coliseum like structure, dark arched tunnels, under a reverse ziggurat of seating with balcony's overhanging for when it had special guests.

Its hobs and those it took, it made to fight in the pit of its arena, to what end a dangerous task not only because you had to win but because the fleshy arena itself would chew and gnaw at you if you stopped moving. If you wanted to eat well you had moments before your defeated foe was torn asunder by the place itself to rip off a few mouthfuls. Fighting and eating to survive in this way, made him the Ogre he is today. That being said even in this violent hell arcadia is more then terror, it is also wonder and the impossibilities he witnessed,

The escape came when Kray having noticed the way Keeper spoke choose one day to start imitating its speech patterns. This went on for sometime until the keeper overheard and was .. .well Kray was not sure what ... but it reacted .. badly ... after a vicious beating he was left to perish in his cell. A seemingly forgotten waste, this he turned to his advantage, the cell was after all made of flesh, the Ogre ate his way out and fled through the hedge to eventually burst free, still very far from what he called home having missed more then a few decades.

It is the power of speech that lead him pursue pledge craft and save his most eloquent speaking for when he performs that task. Otherwise he adopts something of a stuttered speech pattern, breaking the start of his sentences with sounds or single syllables. The observant might notice this becomes inconsistent when he gets angry or agitated.

===Fetch===
In an unusual twist he has no idea where it is and never bothers to find out. It could be this side of the Atlantic, it could be back in the UK, it could be dead. His life was headed for Wandsworth prison or dead in the gutter and the thing is welcome to that, he is far more interested in the possibilities this new start offers him.

===The first two years across the Atlantic===
Well what else would be the case for hulking Ogre with cannibalistic urges. The lost he encountered wanted more of the same violence and wrath, it came as a surprise to some then when he joined the Autumn court over summer. He is a very capable fighter and perfectly willing to engage in violence but its not wrath that motivates his actions. His might did not win him free, it does provide a convenient screen for mortals and lost alike to judge him however.

No he remembered words and their power, he remembered violence but also wonder, and more then anything he understood the place and power of fear. The way people avoided him, the power and wonder of magic, and the importance of misdirection. He also severely regrets squandering his childhood education but with time and money he plans to remedy that situation.

==The River city of Sacramento==
And so it was to leave behind those who could see not past the teeth and kith (he honestly hasn't eaten anyone since gets back no matter how tempted)he made his way around until he found Sacramento a good a place as any he reckoned.

===Under the Bridge===
His first encounter with the harvest king Anatole proved to me be most enlightening experience under the rail bridge they shared snacks and a drink as questions went both ways. Speaking to someone who understood Autumn and valued what the Ogre brought was a refreshing experience, although he was made to wait a few months till the winter solstice before offering glamour to the wyrdstone.

Prior to this he also met the spring queen Sera by chance in park in what at the time seemed a very pleasant encounter. Somehow in this first meeting they agreed agreed to exchange skills he would show her how to fight, she would teach him dream combat, something he knew little of and had less experience.

Running into both Anatole and the Summer queen Circe at an instrument only rendition of carols meant he was known to all monarchs present in the freehold at the time prior to the Winter solstice.

===Under the Earth===
His first significant contribution came when he helped a team of the lost lead by Circe to push a cart for some miles in the tunnels under funderland. He did little more then provide muscle on this trip but it was needed. The debrief was more fruitful as he got more filled in on some issues and had ideas on how he could help.

===When deals go south===
He showed Sera how he fought as promised even sparring and beating Vincent a couple of times as the beast joined in.

However what started as an interesting experience navigating and learning dream combat went south when he realised he stood no chance of challenging the spring queen with his environmental attacks he tried to get at her another way, using chains in his next attack, inspired by something he saw in her dream. Her retaliation knocked him from the dream with disastrous consequences.

Disoriented and mentally broken the derangement he suffered as a result shattered his sense of clarity. The words of the spring queen that night only serving to direct this feeling at herself as she claimed awareness and intention (perhaps not fully aware of the extent of the damage) to his suffering.

He soon learned she had also kicked Vincent out of his home, that the had been staying in by agreement with her, and knowing the effect that sudden changes can have on the lost become rather concerned.

Choosing to confide his damaged state of being and concerns in the harvest king Anatole the two agreed that someone should check up on Vincent, the Ogre felt some reassurance he was not going to have to handle this alone, when the Autumn sovereign condemned the actions of the spring and handed the Ogre a rock. What Kray did not know was this was one of the last times he would see the dwarf.

Kray invited Vincent to his home after trying and failing to bring the topic up properly at a more social hang out. The meeting went about as well as can be expected when a crazy cannibal tries to give therapy to another lost, very badly. But he learnt a lot and was left under no illusion that Vincent was not as well as he claimed to be after digging past some of the bravado.

With the Autumn king's departure Kray had to grit his mighty teeth and confronted the spring sovereign herself. This meeting also went poorly much like Vincent the spring sovereign departed unwilling to see it through to the end. Not before Kray made her aware of the damage and risk she was putting others in with her actions and got a promise from her never to teach dream fighting without the proper oath in place to stop further clarity loss. The Ogre made sure she knew he would not let her keep getting away with damaging the clarity of the lost in the freehold.

==Edna's Boarding House==
During their second meeting under the bridge Kray an Anatole had both independently come to the conclusion the court of fear was not best served by having its base of operations in a theme park. Sharing ideas for how to remedy this situation it was agreed Kray's grand plans to move reopen and resurrect Edna's reputation was agreed, and has not been impacted by the departure of the Harvest king.

As of August 2024 Kray came into the paperwork of ownership for the property. What one Ogre started all those years ago, another Ogre will now bring out of its long slumber. Or that's how he likes to think about it.

==Not made for this world, no not like that==

===Mundane items of interest===

Despite being a very proficient brawler Kray like to carry around a sledgehammer, old metal and wooden haft worn smooth from use.

The leather long coat is thick and poorly made but can deaden a punch just fine and works well to add some flowing shadows to his figure.

His car is a long suffering Beaten up Ford Vedette, that has a habit of breaking down but he refuses to get rid of it instead he keeps replacing the parts and forcing it to live on.

===Hedgespun===

A autumnal gift: The Fedora

Mask: A black battered fedora that has seen better days, moth eaten holes in the front and a ratty hat band around the body, big enough to fit him it is something he is almost never seen without.

Mein: Made of red Autumn leaves and banded by a ring of tiny straw scarecrows, the custom nature of the item is further shown by the holes placed with intention to prevent catching on his horn nubbins.

==Goals and Hooks==

===Gaming===

The Ogre has interest in games of chance and skill, not being very good at them he rarely plays for money or stakes rather taking some strange satisfaction from the game itself. This might seem to be at odds with habit of never indebting himself to anyone preferring to be as self reliant as he can.

===Learning===
he squandered his childhood education and seeks to remedy this, more of a learn by doing kind of Ogre then books reading he does however place great value on the written word despite being very bad with it himself.

===Labour===
Autumn is the working mans season or so his dad always used to say and he is never above getting his hands dirty or breaking a sweat when there is need.

===The Man in the black and beaten hat===
Kray is not the man the infamous place is named after, but he wants to be. A criminal through hand through he works to extended his reach to many spheres and slowly brick by brick build himself an empire from which he can influence the cities movements from the shadows. He knows people in the know and has friends in many places he is willing to use for his ends, or yours if your ready to make a deal.


{{Bibliography}}{{Changeling Character}}