2z4ufifi war

I can’t give you a history of the Silent Striders in the Twentieth Century. Cripes, the century only ended a couple of months ago. What? 2003? All right, a couple of years ago, I think I still have a point. And anyway, the history of the Striders is the history of the world. We’re everywhere. What? No, not Asia, good Gaia, the crazy yellow werewolves and weretigers and whatever-all they have over there would rip you in half, why I remember back in the Second World War when I was in the Philippines ... What? Oh, all right. 725 mmfigHpk The Ottoman Empire controlled most of the Middle East until the Great War. It wasn’t areally strong power, though. It was corrupt and weak, practically doddering. You watch your language, don’t think I didn’t hear that! Through that whole time, spies and explorers were making off with treasures that would make your back hair fall out, usually by ... what? You don’t have back hair? Anyway, back in those days the Striders spent a lot of their time just making sure that our caems throughout the empire didn’t get looted. Anytime you hear about an explorer who swore up and down that he saw Anubis, he probably ran into one of ours. This was when I was very young, before my First Change, mind you, but we did lose one caem, in the Ottoman Empire, to stupidity. It was in Egypt. We didn’t really take up residence in Egypt, you know full well why, don’t pretend you don’t. So it wasn’t really us that lost the caem. But a couple of packs of Get of Fenris were off on patrol or something - partying with some of the locals, maybe, they wouldn’t talk about it - and a group of English explorers found the tomb complex that made up the core of the caem. A very small caem by the standards of the day, even pretty small by modem standards. By the time the Get got back a few days later, the damned Englishmen may as well have pissed all over the place. Utterly destroyed it, spiritually. The relics and tomb bits were mostly sent to museums and private collections in England. I expect they’re still there. Probably a few fetishes among them. 725&d&dHtB Like I said before, the Ottoman Empire was the place that you could find the most Silent Striders. We were all over the world, even then, but in those days getting from place toplace wasn’t asnap like it is today. Ofcourse, heh, we had the Wheel, even then, so as long as we could find a friendly caem we could usually get where we needed to go.. . I see you’re giving me stem looks. The point is that until around the Second World War there weren’t many Striders in the Americas, and in Europe, Africa, and Asia we were concentrated in the Middle East, in the Ottoman Empire. That’s where I was born. Silenf Sfriders The rulers of the empire, the family name, were pretty corrupt. I mean that in the dishonest, nasty, selfish sense, not the Wyrmish sense. They were the kind of self-serving hereditary authorities that make the Silver Fangs look good by comparison. What? Oh, what are they going to do to me? I’m ninety-three, and I’ve killed more Wyrm servants than they can.... Anyway, a lot of them escaped Lawrence’s rebels when the war was coming to an end. We didn’t have a lot of interest in the human governments of the area - we just wanted to be able to travel around without getting hassled. We wanted to make sure that whoever was in charge would help us keep the humans out of our sacred spaces and make sure that they weren’t thralls of the Wyrm or the Cult of Sutekh. We found out after the fact that a number of the minor functionaries of the Empire were dug in pretty heavily with the Cult of Sutekh. They escaped the Empire intact. Plenty of them resettled in the States, and we know.. . well, I’ll save that for later. Anyway. The British and French took over the Empire, and they gave a lot of it to the Hashemites to rule. Conveniently enough, we had a lot of Kinfolk among the Hashemites. 2z+4u&fifi war/ I left the area just before the Germans arrived. It was a busy couple of decades. In the twenties we had Carter’s rape of a few more of Egypt’s secrets and the fallout from Balfour’s declaration, but most of my attention and my pack‘s attention was focused on another cult. The cult’s name is in Arabic; it translates to Tooth of the Eternal Maw. Yes, boy, I said “is,” not “was,” I’m glad you’re listening to me. I’ll get there, give me a minute. You probably watched too many movies as a kid, I can tell from looking at you, but most Egyptians are not death-obsessed cultists. The interest in death and the afterlife that the ancient Egyptians seem to have had, if you ask my opinionand you did! - is just obvious to us because it’s one of the only things that survived. If they had built lasting enormous monuments to their birds then human scientists would assume that they were an avian-obsessed society. The tombs are all that survived, so we assume that that’s what they cared about. Gaia only knows what future people will think about modem Americans, with your hula hoops and your rock and roll and your personal digital assistants. My pack and I were the first ones to run into the Eternal Maw cult, and unfortunately, they were the sort of people who gave Hollywood the idea. As far as we could tell, ghosts regularly possessed around half of them, and all of them were obsessed with their ancestors. Most of the cult believed that the ghosts doing the possessions were their ancestors, but if that’s the case then we ran into the most bloody destructive, slaver-