Chronos (WTF)
Chronos is a Storm Lord Elodoth.
Background
Frank Lampard always loved clocks, watches, you name it. When he was a kid, he'd get cheap watches of bright and chunky plastic, never digital - a new one for each birthday. He'd need a new one each year since the previous year's gift would have inevitably been taken apart and examined by the time the following birthday came around. Clocks in the house, his friends' watches... no timepiece was safe from his inquisitive nature.
Time itself, and the concept of measuring it, keeping it, tracking it, appealed to him on an intense level even as a young boy. This translated into a brief period of bad poetry in college, but he shook that after a few years.
Exactly where he Changed is a mystery, but it's known it was in a big city somewhere, back in the '50s or '60s. Frank's pushing into his 80s now, and he looks it, but remains gleeful and sprightly most of the time. Sometimes he seems small, shriveled. Other time he flexes old arms and shows off his Popeye biceps. His accent is neutral, but many werewolves are certain they hear a hint of their own local twang in his voice.
He's been seen in practically every American and European city with a subway system, and seems to spend his life traveling between major cities, living down in the subways. What local packs soon come to notice is that Chronos - who earned the name from this very habit - knows absolutely everything about the subway systems, right down to the exact time, to the very second, the next train is coming into any station in the city.
But there's more to it than that. Chronos communes with the spirits of the underground subway networks, learning all he can of them. The trains, the loci, the Wounds, the shoals, the shartha... he knows it all, in every city he visits.
In several instances, packs have come to Chronos to help plan their battles against Shadow-beings or rival packs, using the infinitely complex Shadow of the subways to strike. On more than one occasion, the lightless tunnels under London have run red with blood as Chronos helped the Forsaken plan their wars against Pure infiltrators.
Time still appeals to him. Rumors circulate that spirits clinging to him in the Shadow can be called upon to warp time itself, though what chiminage could entice a spirit to perform such powers - and why these beings cloak Chronos as they do - is not something the smiling Storm Lord ever speaks about.
Using Chronos in a Chronicle:
The guy's a mystery, a cipher, but he also knows too much about most things. Which means he's a great pot-stirrer, the kind of character who can come into a game and deliver new information.
Stats
Auspice: Elodoth
Tribe: Storm Lord
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 2
Physical Attributes: Strength 1 (2/5/4/6), Dexterity 3 (3/4/5/3), Stamina 2 (3/4/4/3)
Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 3 (2/3/0/3), Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics (History) 2, Crafts (Clockwork) 4, Investigation 1, Occult 1
Physical Skills: Brawl 2, Stealth (In the Subways) 4, Survival 2
Social Skills: Animal Ken 2, Empathy 2, Expression (Poetry) 1, Persuasion 4, Socialize 3, Streetwise 5
Merits: Languages (French) 2, Languages (Spanish) 3, Languages (German) 2, Contacts (Various Subway Workers) 5
Primal Urge: 1
Willpower: 5
Harmony: 7
Essence Max/Per Turn: 10/1
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Envy
Health: 7 (9/11/10/7)
Initiative: 6 (6/7/8/8)
Defense: 3 (all forms)
Speed: 9 (10/13/16/14)
Renown: Honor 2, Glory 2
Gifts: Know Name, Sense Malice, Snarl of Command, Warning Growl
Rituals: 2; Rites: Banish Human, Rite of Dedication, Rite of the Spirit Brand, Banish Spirit
References
- WTF: Tribes of the Moon, p. 184-185
