Walt Barowski

Walt Barowski is a Daeva in Chicago.

Overview

The scion of a Polish noble family, the young Walter Barowski came to the United States when his parents were exiled for trumped-up political reasons. Barowski was in medical school at the time of his family's banishment, and the spoiled young man had to come to terms with his family's financial ruin all too quickly.

Chicago's Polish community is the largest outside Poland. Chicago itself contains more speakers of Polish than any other city besides Warsaw. Barowski's family, consequently, chose Chicago as the site of their banishment.

Barowski found himself working with anyone who would pay an immigrant with a strong back. He worked with carpenters, teamsters and meatpackers, and when the city's grand fathers of industry tried cheating their employees, the noble-born Barowski took exception and helped organize his co-workers into effective unions.

For his zeal and dedication Barowki (sic) got - killed. Chicago's fathers of industry didn't like uppity Polack giving his co-workers ideas above their station, so the wealthy men had him killed. Were it not for the quick intervention of a young woman (or a woman who looked young, at any rate), Barowski would have died on the street. Her blood brought him across into the Requiem. In the years to come, that woman would become the Carthian elder called the Matriarch, once she claimed praxis of Chicago.

Barowki (sic) had a hard time pulling himself away from the affairs of mortals. Even after his Embrace, he would appear to the union workers and inspire them to greatness. In his Kindred affairs, Barowski has taken a similar approach. He dislikes both the Invictus and the Lancea Sanctum for holding on to tired, outmoded systems. He particularly resents American Kindred who betray their own political heritage of democracy to follow such repressive systems.

Despite his concerns with the past, Barowski is also keenly aware of the present and the future. He forces himself to learn every popular new technology as it comes out as a means of mastering any technique that might give him an advantage over the Kindred of the more archaic covenants.

For years, Barowski thought he was in a safely Carthian city. The assassination of the Matriarch and the rise to power of Maxwell has put a bitterness in Barowski's heart that he can hardly contain. At this point, he's looking for any and all allies who can help him tip the balance of power back to the Carthian Movement, and he's not being all that choosy about who joins him or what their methods are, so long as they don't endanger the standing of the covenant or trample its ideologies.

Stats

Clan: Daeva
Covenant: Carthian Movement
Embrace: 1899
Apparent Age: 32
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 4, Composure 4
Mental Skills: Academics 4, Computer 3, Investigation 2, Medicine 3, Occult 1, Politics 4, Science 1
Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 2, Drive 2, Firearms 1
Social Skills: Animal Ken 2, Empathy 3, Intimidation 1, Persuasion 3, Socialize 4, Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 1
Merits: Allies (Unions) 4, Allies (City Hall) 4, Allies (Police) 2, Allies (Media) 3, Covenant Status: Carthians 5, City Status (Chicago) 3, Contacts 5, Haven 3, Herd 2, Inspiring, Language (Polish) 3, Resources 3
Willpower: 8
Humanity: 6
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Envy
Health: 9
Initiative: 7
Defense: 2
Speed: 11
Blood Potency: 4
Disciplines: Celerity 1, Majesty 5, Vigor 4
Vitae/per Turn: 13/2

References

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