Shakespeare

Shakespeare is a traveling Bone Gnawer Philodox.[1][2]

Overview

(Written by Tale-Nobody-Knows, a Stargazer Ragabash from Los Angeles, who threatened to beat me unless I put this in. His opinions are his own - and because he knows Kailindo, I guess that's the way they'll stay.)

Among the Wolves of the Rat I have met, the one I call Wisdom-with-Whiskers is perhaps the best of them all. I stand up for my friend because no one else will. He has helped many of the Garou and the People time and time again. He is a boon traveler, and the winds of fate blow him on his journeys.

He was born under the half moon in an alleyway outside the Morton Theatre in New York City, and has forever lived his life around the stage. He grew up in libraries, museums and theatres, listening to symphonies and opera, and watching ballet from the dark corners of a disused balcony.

He did not choose the path of introspection and meditation, much to the dismay of the Stargazers, who would have taken him. No, he was true to his Bone Gnawer nature and took on the task of going forth and educating all those he could. He has contributed much to Bone Gnawer society simply by traveling between its diverse regions - the same yet different in each city - and carrying word of them throughout the land. He is a one-man Johnny Appleseed - his stories spread seeds of new community and renewal in the towns through which he passes.

I've traveled with him often enough. He usually enters a city and makes friends with tribal elders there. Then, one by one, he takes street people, Bone Gnawers, and others. From these he creates a ragtag troupe of actors. He trains them himself, teaching them about the Bard and the street roots of theatre. When he leaves, he leaves behind new members of the Frankweilers.

Above all, Shakespeare is the gadfly, the asker-of-hard-questions, the incontrovertible evidence that the Bone Gnawers are not the tribe we think they are. Like them, we must learn to find treasures amongst the trash of the city, to discover the true worth of the Gnawers. Once we do, let the Wyrm tremble, and let the might take note: the Children of Rat will not be denied.

References

  1. ↑ WTA: Bone Gnawers Tribebook, p. 60
  2. ↑ WTA: Litany of the Tribes Volume 1, p. BG: 60
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