Armageddeon Ryddell

Armageddeon Ryddell is a Fostern homid Ahroun Bone Gnawer. He resides in Appalachia and looks like a bearded lumberjack. He is the Keeper of the Land at Caern Mammoth. His family makes the local moonshine.

Biography

Born into a large family of Bone Gnawer Kinfolk tucked away in a secluded cover in the Kentucky hills not far from the Cumberland Gap, Armageddon and the rest of his brothers and sisters managed to thrive without most of the comforts associated with modern life. Dodging persistent truant officers, avoiding "chores" (such as they were), keeping watch for approaching "revenooers" or "gov'mint men," and roaming the surrounding woods occupied most of his childhood. As he grew older, Armageddon was initiated into the family business - the making of moonshine. He was also taught, along with all the Rydell children, to steer clear of the Bledson family who lived in the next cove. Every now and then, uncles and aunts and cousins from the other side of the hill would descend on the Rydells for a few says of potluck and stories and a sampling of the latest batch. Sometimes the boy would overhear odd conversations about him during these family convocations, as one or another of his distant uncles would ask his parents of "the boy" (meaning him) was beginning to show any of "the signs."

One day, two of his uncles paid an unexpected visit and, with his parent's permission, took Armageddon with them into the deep woods and introduced him to his Garou heritage. For a time, Armageddon traveled with a pack of Bone Gnawers and discovered the extensive network of Kinfolk salted throughout the Kentucky hills. He learned, as well, of the enemies of Gaia that also secreted themselves in the mountains. In addition to Black Spiral Dancers, whole families of fomori made their homes in the deep woods and secret coves. Little by little, Armageddon began to realize that some of these fomori "varmints" sounded a lot like the Bledson family that lived not too far from his home. The more he thought about it the more worried he became about the safety of his brothers and sisters, until he finally decided that, much as he liked roaming the wild places, his Kinfolk needed him more. As a younger pack member, Armageddon had to wheedle his packmates into joining him, but eventually he had his way.

One day, As he neared his home, Armageddon's sense of urgency grew, and even his pack began to feel that the Ahroun cub was onto something. The sound of gunshots and screams coming from Rydell's Cove confirmed Armageddon's fears, Although he'd had a few run-ins with Wyrm creatures during his travels through the hills, the rage he felt as he saw his Kinfolk under attack by fomori exceeded anything he had ever experienced. For the first time in his new existence, Armageddon tasted the blood of his enemy and reveled in it. When it was over, and the corpses of the fomori lay strewn around the bloody cover, Armageddon found the bodies of his two youngest siblings, eight-year-old Ezekiel and seven-year-old Hepzibah, both of them savagely mutilated. It took all of his battered packmates to restrain him during the rage that followed.

Since that time, Armageddon has never been far from his family. He still keeps in touch with his pack, but nor even the Apocalypse could make him leave the people he has vowed to protect. His family doesn't speak of the attack that cost them two of their children, nor do they mention what they saw during the battle between the fomori of the Bledson family and their son's pack in Crinos form. But the Rydell family sleeps easier at night now, and the safety of the family's moonshine business is secured.

Image

At 6'2" and nearly 300 pounds, with long, unkempt dirty blond hair and muddy gray-green eyes, Armageddon epitomizes the classic "hillbilly" stereotype. He wears faded and patched overalls (sometimes without a shirt) and though he owns a sturdy pair of workboots, he wears them only when he has to. In his Lupus form, he resembles a large yellow "wolfhound." His Glabro form, which he often assumes to scare off revenuers or other intruders from his family's stull, resembles the "hairy man" of many mountain tales. As a Crinos, Armageddon is just plain huge.

Stats

Breed: Homid
Auspice: Ahroun
Tribe: Bone Gnawer
Nature/Demeanor: Fanatic/Lone Wolf
Physical: Strength 4 (6/8/7/5), Dexterity 2 (2/3/4/4), Stamina 5 (7/8/8/7)
Social: Charisma 2, Manipulation 2 (1/0/0/0), Appearance 2 (1/0/2/2)
Mental: Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 3
Talents: Alertness 2, Brawl 4, Dodge 2, Intimidation 3, Primal-Urge 1
Skills: Animal Ken 2, Firearms 3, Melee 2, Repair 2
Knowledges: Area Knowledge (Kentucky hills) 3, Brewing 3, Enigmas 1, Herbalism 2
Backgrounds: Allies 1, Kinfolk 4
Gifts: Cooking, Falling Touch, Smell of Man
Rank: 2
Rage 5, Gnosis 6, Willpower 5
Rites: Bone Rhythms, Rite of Talisman Dedication
Fetishes: None
Flaws: Enemy (the Bledson family)

References

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