The Manslayer

The Manslayer is an infamous murderous Black Fury "vigilante".

Overview

Her sobriquet was coined by a pack of Glass Walkers that uncovered a string of bloody murders that the FBI was tentatively linking together. The Glass Walkers were astonished to find that the FBI had only part of the story - some hundred and fifty men had been murdered in a variety of ways, with the number still growing. Worse, many of the victims had apparently no link to Wyrmish activities at all. The Walker pack's most potent Theurge couldn't determine anything more about the culprit's identity than "she is a child of Pegasus" - news that the pack didn't want to hear.

For the Furies' part, the majority of the tribe is heavily embarrassed by the Manslayer's activities, particularly as the Glass Walkers' spiritual research produced the decree "is a child of Pegasus" - not "was." Those Furies who have tried to gain further information from Pegasus have met with stony silence. Regrettably, many are taking this silence as evidence that Pegasus sanctions the Manslayer's activities - a position that does nothing to improve the Furies' relations with other tribes who have heard of the Manslayer's hunts.

Currently the tribe is involved in a low-key investigation (the Furies are, for obvious reasons, opposed to witch-hunts) to determine the actual identity of the Manslayer. The most popular rumor going around is that she was Alecto Bloody-Handed, one of the foremost Bacchantes before he disappearance on a crusade against a Black Spiral Hive. If Alecto was captured by the Dancers, as her kuklos fears, the torments and violations she would surely have suffered might well have pushed her over the edge, even after her escape. Other theories abound as well; she might have been a potent warrior who faked her own death, or who was abandoned for dead on the battlefield, or simply a Fury on the brink who fell prey to an overpowering bloodlust rather than Harano. Many Furies argue that she must be caught, and rendered unto Erebus or otherwise healed; others feel she should be executed for abusing the Furies' sacred mission, a gesture that might also appease the other tribes. It's an argument that causes no small amount of bitterness between the two sides.

Of course, the Manslayer hasn't been caught yet - and those involved in tracking her down are no closer to catching her than before.

There's also the possibility that there might not be only one "Manslayer"; it's very possible that the sobriquet was adopted by a pack or even an extended network of extremist Furies, who disguise their work as that of a single renegade to avoid retribution. If that's the case, then the chances of stopping the Manslayer's brutal killing spree are slim indeed.

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