Atlantic White

Atlantic White was a Wendigo.

Overview

Not a Wendigo whose praises are sung when other tribes are present, "Back Into The Atlantic, White Man" was a warrior of legendary ferocity and a hero especially to those who follow the Warpath. Two hundred years ago, this lupus lived in the lands of the Omaha people. In 1845, the encroachment of other tribes pushed westward by Wyrmbringer expansion and the depletion of their main prey, the buffalo, forced the Omaha to sell most of their Nebraska hunting grounds to the US Government for $850,000. While this sale seemed liked wisdom to the humans, the Garou saw this folly as surrender to the enemy. Atlantic White declared war.

Atlantic White immediately started reclamation of what was lost, first from Chief Iron Eye who had agreed to the sale, and then, far more violently, from the US Government men who tried to claim the lands for themselves. It was Atlantic White who wiped trading posts and forts from the prairie again and again so that the Wyrmbringers paid for the land in blood as well as colored strips of people. The name Omaha means "those going against the wind," and Atlantic White embodied that name in his gallant, doomed battles to stop and even reverse the Wyrmbringers' western expansion.

His was the rallying call for many of the western Wendigo who had until then had been concerned with battling the many new Wyrm beasts loose upon the land. It was Atlantic White who howled for direct war upon the source of our Kinfolk's growing problems and our newly hatched legions of enemies in the spirit world. He proposed a united effort to remove the Wyrmbringers from the Pure Lands, even if we had to ignore out duties to our Kinfolk or the Umbra to accomplish it. Many of the plains Wendigo agreed with the spirit of his desire but could not abandon their sacred duty to Gaia, even to save the Pure Lands.

Atlantic White was defeated not by the Wyrmbringers he fought by a new threat. He fell to powerful minions of the Storm Eater, the beast only then emerging to ravage the western Umbra. It was Atlantic White's death that showed us how dire a threat Storm Eater truly was. Some of us also saw his defeat by this mighty Bane as a sign that his pursuit of the Wyrmbringers to the exclusion of all else was not Gaia's will. By 1882, the Omaha were living on a reservation and perhaps beginning to regret that they had sold their freedom along with their lands, proving that in this, at least, Atlantic White had been correct.

Today, those of the Warpath frequently call Atlantic White's name. Some say his spirit can be heard howling in fury with the plans underway in Omaha territory to build a corn-burning ethanol plant. It was also the Omaha who were the first to secure gaming licenses from the US Government and introduce casinos to tribal lands. The Warpath calls this a defeat, too, knowing that Atlantic White would see the gaming tables as Wyrm-tainted conduits for further corruption.

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