Genealogist

Genealogist

**of Note**

Quote: You’re from the Tvarivich dynasty, correct? I think you’ll find that the tale of your great-grandmother may have some bearing on your problem.

Prelude: Frankly, you weren’t considered a great prospect for a true-blooded Garou. You never showed any signs of the wolf within as you grew up amongst a community of Kinfolk. Your Dad worked as security for the local sept leader and your Mum — an Ahroun — was always off fighting against some creature or other. You were quiet, bookish and a determined student. You were good at most subjects, but it was the special lessons about the great Silver Fang families that fascinated you the most. You would spend hours in the record rooms, studying the family trees and growing ever more annoyed at the growing gaps, as the record keepers started losing track of Kinfolk that had moved away. What’s more, you learned that there were parts of the trees that were never recorded because the liaisons were secret and illegitimate. This annoyed you even more.

Still, you persevered and you could soon reel off whole lineages with ease. You even started learning stories about the key members of dynasties you’d memorized. Your future with the Silver Fang genealogists seemed assured.

Then, one day, after a rough tackle on the games pitch, you lost your temper and changed into the Crinos for the first time. You badly wounded a schoolmate before the shocked instructors were able to summon help to restrain you. Then the serious work to train you as one of the Garou began. As you were tutored in the great legends of the tribe and the whole Garou Nation, you would always put in some extra-curricular work to learn the family trees of the heroes of the tales. Your reputation for knowing a tale of an ancestor of any Silver Fang at a gathering quickly grew.

Now, you’re working with a pack and fighting the good fight. In your rare off–duty times, though, you learn more tales and try to track down the missing branches of the family trees. You’re constantly getting your packmates into trouble as a result but as you’ve tracked down a few dozen Kinfolk and a lost cub, nobody minds too much.

Concept: You’re a werewolf genealogist, even more obsessed with breeding and lineage than the rest of the tribe. You can see that family trees are just another form of story and they’re the stories that appeal to you most.

Roleplaying Notes: Most of the time, you’re pretty quiet for a Galliard, keeping yourself to yourself and your nose in the family histories. That all changes when you have an audience that wants to hear about their ancestors. You have a knack for making people feel good about their families and letting them see the best qualities of those Chapter Four: Nobility heroes reflected in themselves.

When you get a whiff of a missing part of a Silver Fang bloodline, you’re unstoppable until you’ve followed every lead and found the missing relatives.

Equipment: Scruffy, nondescript clothing, a large bag stuffed full of photocopied birth records, newspaper cuttings and old photographs, a laptop with genealogy software and a scanner.