Caitlin Dooley
Biography
Caitlin Dooley has led three lives. She grew up in a family of Fianna Kinfolk and her change came as no surprise to her (she had dreamed about it for weeks before it happened). Her musical talent made her membership in the Songkeepers camp a natural, and after her Rite of Passage she traveled the Appalachians in search of music. That was how she stumbled on "Jack the Whistler," one of the fair folk who, like her, shared a thirst for the knowledge contained in song and story. Caitlin and Jack wandered the hills together for a time, more than friends but less than lovers.
In her middle years, Caitlin felt the need for some stability, and joined the Sept of the Moon's Blessing, becoming their official lorekeeper and their best storyteller. She occasionally went traveling, and more than once ran into Jack (who never seemed to age). She was beginning to think that she would pass the rest of her days in the shelter of the Kentucky caern when she began having dreams and visions, some of them related to a past life. In that incarnation, she bore the name Brightsong and lived in the mountains of the Blue Ridge. Brightsong gave shelter to a young Cherokee warrior who was attempting to evade forced exile from his homeland; he confided in her that he had been entrusted with a sacred totem object, a bone from one of the great mammoths that roamed the land before history began.
Caitlin's dreams prompted her to leave the sept once more and seek a secluded existence in the deep woods where she could concentrate on unraveling her puzzling visions. She still lives in Kentucky, in a ramshackle (on the outside, at least) cabin ticked away in a hard-tp-reach cove not far from the Cumberland Gap. Some of the humans who live within a day's tramp of her believe she is a "conjure woman" or "wise woman" and occasionally come to her for cures and remedies. She dispenses them in return for gifts of food or bits of folklore and ballads. Jack (still youthful) also visits her from time to time, never more than a "whistle" away, as he says. She has told him of her dreams, and he has promised to pass along anything he can discover about a "mammoth's bone."
In addition to her dreams of the past, Caitlin has also been disturbed by the sense that something very evil lurks not far from her clearing. She suspects that it has to do with the Wyrm. She has shared her concern with members of the Sept of the Moon's Blessing, but she realizes that they are hard pressed with matters closer to home. The best she can do is keep her keen sense alert for any signs of strengthening of the evil. A local Bone Gnawer, Armageddeon Rydell, who lives with his large family of Kinfolk across the mountain from her, swears that the evil she senses comes from the Bledson family that lives somewhere "hereabouts."
Image
Caitlin Dooley is a frail, elderly woman (in her 60s or even 70s) with long, silver hair that still shows a few red streaks. She usually wears long print dresses and keeps her hair plaited atop her head. In her Lupus form, she is an aging reddish-colored wolf with many, many silver hairs, particularly around her eyes and muzzle. It is in her Crinos form that her age shows most plainly, for although she is not small, she is thin and lacks the physical resiliency of her youth.
Stats
Breed: Homid
Auspice: Galliard
Tribe: Fianna (Songkepeers)
Nature/Demeanor: Visionary/Confidant
Physical: Strength 2 (4/6/5/3), Dexterity 3 (3/4/5/5), Stamina 2 (4/5/5/4)
Social: Charisma 4, Manipulation 4 (3/1/1/1), Appearance 3 (2/0/3/3)
Mental: Perception 5, Intelligence 4, Wits 5
Talents: Alertness 4, Brawl 1, Dodge 2, Empathy 2, Expression 2, Primal-Urge 4
Skills: Animal Ken 3, Melee 1, Performance 4 (old ballads), Survival 2
Knowledges: Enigmas 4, Faerie Lore 2, Herbalism 4, Linguistics 4 (Cherokee, Erse, Gaelic, Welsh), Occult 4, Poisons 3, Rituals 4
Backgrounds: Past Life 3
Gifts: Beast Speech, Call of the Wild, Persuasion, Resist Toxin, Brew, Dreamspeak, Howl of the Banshee, Howl of the Unseen, Cairbre's Tongue, Faerie Kin, Song of the Siren, Tongues, Bridge Walker, Shadows By the Fire, Spirit Ward, Troll's Bridge, Fabric of the Mind
Rank: 5
Rage 5, Gnosis 9, Willpower 7
Rites: Rite of Cleansing, Rite of Contrition, Gathering for the Departed, Rite of the Winter Wolf, Bone Rhythms, Greet the Moon, Rite of Binding, Rite of Inspiration ("Awen's Blessing"), Rite of Summoning, Rite of Talisman Dedication, Rite of the Fetish, Stone of Scorn, Satire Rite, Rite of Accomplishment
Fetishes: Knot of Protection
References
- WTA: Rage Across Appalachia, p. 73-74
