House Wise Heart
House Wise Heart is a Silver Fang house from the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Overview
One of the oldest houses and the most mysterious of the Silver Fangs.
House Wise Heart are the keepers of the Secret of Gaia, and have many powerful Earth Gifts. These Garou tend to be mendicant, traveling from region to region. They were once powerful in ancient Italy and Greece, but their power there is a thing of the past. They appear there only sporadically now, staging hit-and-run raids on the region's vampiric overlords.
Silver Fangs from this family also appear in Turkey, Georgia, Azebaijan and Uzbekistan. They recently lost one of their oldest bases, the Aral Sea Caern, to a major Wyrm advance - the Shadow Curtain around Russia reached out and consumed the sacred place.
The house's leader, King Tariki, is from an ancient and respected Mesopotamian dynasty. He maintains the tribe's closest alliance with the Children of Karnak, and has allies among a group of witch-Namers with some ties to Gaia. King Tariki walks the line between life and death. Despite his house's dedication to Gaia, Tariki is a patron of the Ivory Priesthood and reputedly knows the Secret of Death. He disappears into the Umbra for long periods, appearing only occasionally to issue orders to his regent sons. He may even wander the Dark Umbra.
It has recently lost many of its caerns to battle or to other tribes. They were once one of the more prominent houses in Russia, but the last of them there died fighting the Wyrm horrors unleashed by the Hag.
King Tariki frequently travels the Umbra, although it is said he saw something so terrible on his last journey that his fur fell out and he cannot stop shivering.
House Totem
References
- WTA: Silver Fangs Tribebook, p. 37-38
- WTA: Tribebook: Silver Fangs, p. 40, 71