Kirima Skye

Kirima Skye, “Speaker for the Northern Lands,” is a Gurahl Ice Stalker from Alaska.

Overview

The polar bear cub who would one day call herself Kirima Skye had just entered her second year when an oil tanker wrecked along the coast of her Alaskan home, spewing tons of noxious petroleum into the water and onto the shore. The spill trapped Kirima, her mother, her brother and thousands of fish and other aquatic animals, in a thick, viscous film of oil that made breathing difficult and movement almost impossible.

Only the onset of her First Change saved Kirima’s life, bolstering her with the supernatural strength and endurance of her Crinos form. Kirima dragged herself away from the muck and ooze. Slowly, painfully, she recovered from the damage to her body. Her spirit, however, smoldered with anger as her newly awakened consciousness registered what had happened to her and her family.

The first humans to arrive on the scene of the oil spill – an intrepid news team – paid for their timeliness with their lives. A damage-control crew from the oil company responsible for the spill suffered the same fate, as Kirima’s uncontrollable Rage filled her with a drive for vengeance against anything and everything that approached her desecrated territory. Because of the intense emotions that overwhelmed her by day and the nightmares that plagued her fitful sleep, Kirima failed to hear the insistent message of summoning sent to her from her Buri-Jaan, a Swedish-born environmentalist named Olaf Peders.

Therefore, Kirima’s mentor came to her, leading a third group, made up of volunteers committed to the task of cleaning up the oil spill and trying to repair the damage to the land and coastal waters. Speaking to Kirima in the Gurahl tongue, which she instinctively understood, Olaf introduced himself and began the arduous task of teaching the new werebear about herself, her Changing Breed and her place in Gaia’s creation.

Kirima caught on quickly. When Olaf and his group returned to their headquarters in Newfoundland, they brought with them a small, stocky woman with dusky brown skin and hair the color of the northern nights.

As a spokesman for the preservation of the Arctic, Kirima has gained a considerable reputation among environmental activists – and she has attracted the unwanted attention of Pentex and other minions of the Wyrm. Her impassioned pleas for the protection of endangered Arctic animals such as the polar bear, snow fox and harp seal reveal the power of her deep convictions. Twice, she has survived assassination attempts, though the assassins were not so lucky.

Periodically, Kirima returns to her birthplace, where she has carved out a Den that opens onto an Umbral Glade, to travel the Umbral Arctic in search of the spirits of her mother and brother so that she can tell them that their deaths, though cruel and needless, still served a purpose beyond their understanding.

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