Elihu Steelwright

Elihu Steelwright was a Kinfolk of the Children of Gaia.

Biography

Kin are accorded more honor among the Children than among any other Garou tribe, but Elihu Barrett was a great man in his own right. A blacksmith by trade, he was born into a family of Children and Kin attached to a caern in upstate New York. He taught himself French, Spanish, German Russian, Arabic, Chinese and Hindi, and despite his poverty, worked through letters and personal visits to bring together peaceworkers, human and Garou, in Europe and North America. His League of Brotherhood was the only Garou organization working for peace throughout the nineteenth century.

Barrett never envied his Garou sister, who died on a dangerous mission to the Shadow Lords' court to fight serfdom. He supported himself everywhere he went by his own hands, teaching anyone who wished to learn the craft of blacksmithing, urging all workers "to believe that they are worth more for producing food for man and beast than for feeding with their own flesh and blood the hungry mouths of mortar and cannon on fields of human slaughter." He sired two Garou children and died an elderly man, saddened that so many Garou had died in World War I. His family continues his heritage of handwork and peacework to this day and his name still turns heads among the Children and the Bone Gnawers.

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