Dies-Last Dawnstalker
(Theurge, Adren, probably Metis)
Dies-Last Dawnstalker is a notorious Garou who made his name and fame in the sept of the Blue Pelt. He was well-known for a number of things, not the least being his bloodshedding rituals, his infamy among spirits and the fact that he ran out on the sept the moment they needed him the most. Even then, he is still considered wise and did a number of good things for the Blue Pelt sept and the garou nation in general.
This Shadow Lord lives by a number of personal principles, some of which are definitely not in stride with the general thought of the litany. One of these principles is his thought that anything weaker then himself is nothing less then prey and to be used as such. A great number of incidents has thus put him in very bad standing with the spirit nation.
These days, he is in retreat in the Carpathian mountains, traveling the peaks where the thunderstorms rage the hardest. It is possible to seek him out, though the travel should prove quite a challenge.
Appearance
His appearance is dark, brooding, with eyes that glow with madness. He has a number of interesting and distinguishing traits
- He favours dark clothing, often wearing a hood or a bandana to hide a festering scar on his face. This sign of Rat was given to him when he tried to pressure the wrong spirit. It is said that "fighting" a certain urban area can undo this mark, but Dies-Last is either uninterested or too scared to take up on this quest.
- On his side is a very peculiar fetish dagger named "Graan". This gruesome weapon has an alien kind of awareness that craves for the flow of bloods. A number of theurges have thought this item to be of the wyrm, but got proven wrong. Dies-Last proudly claims to have created this fetish in his early days as a cliath - something highly doubted by many that know him. It is unknown what the true story behind this item is.
- He also wields the Dawnstalker family Klaive. This weapon came into his hands after defeating his very own mother. This item has the mysterious trait that people tend to forget this weapon after seeing it, which might explain why so little is known about it.
- All around Dies-Last, continously, a large flock of ravens flies in endless circles. This flock is visible both in real world and umbra. They are said to have been a gift of Stormcrow, though it is unknown why these were given.
History
Dies-Last was considered a bastard son, his mother tricked into sleeping with another Garou - a Silent Strider. As he grew up, he was quickly considered to be a disgrace on the Romenian family name and thus not worthy of living at all. Seeing she couldn't kill him directly, his mother send him off to the hardest of septs she could imagine, the "Open Grave" sept of Siberia.
There, in the frigid tundras, Dies-Last got his offical cub title by being throw into a large pit with a number of other "possible" garou. A large wooden plank was then laid across the hole, atop of which again was laid a few feet of earth. Those that survived the horrors and fighting and finally managed to claw their way out were considered to be true garou. After two days, Dies-Last was the only one to surface. He did not turn around but merely stomped the hole shut he just climbed out of.
For a very long time, he was a cub. He was not trusted by his elders for his continual raging against his fellow cubs, against the spirits and against everything else in the world. In an attempt to quench his fire, they send the young Dies-Last on a pilgrimage into the north. After several moons, Dies-Last returned, wielding a dagger he named "Graan". He told the theurges he created this "fetish" himself. The sept Alpha, "Bark-eater", laughed heartily at these claims and challenged the cub to prove his dirk in a fight. After they seperated Dies-Last from the bloody (but living) mess that remained of the Alpha he was given his Cliath rank - and an exile.
Somehow, Dies-Last ended up in the sept of the Blue-pelt, which was in rough times. Here, he found himself treated as a useful garou. There were tight tensions with the other Shadow Lords such as Pawnbreaker, but these just seemed to fuel his energies - as he eventually even formed a pack with them (the Wanderers of Twilight, of somewhat disputable name)
A turning point was the moment Dies-Last met Harendotes, a Silent Strider, who turned out to be his half-sister. Giving his missing father an identity seemed to soften the shadowlord a lot, eventually turning him into something a lot more sane. From there, he managed turn Keeper of the Land and Elder Theurge and eventually gain a strong hand in sept politics. Thus it came as a big surprise when during an ongoing and losing war around the town of Delft both he and Harendotes spoke to the sept and told them they would leave. More appropiately, some called it "fleeing".
Dies-Last and Harendotes gathered up two allies (Xavier and Second-to-None) and went to Romenia to have Dies-Last challenge his mother for the position of Adren. It is unknown what happened exactly, but weeks later the entire remaining family except for Dies-Last himself went missing and the Shadow Lord tribe crowned him Adren. It is whispered - but unverified - that the house of Dawnstalker managed to keep on top of the east so long by sacrificing "pure" children to a dark spirit that lived in their house. Something that this pack of four managed to call a halt on.
After these events, Dies-Last retreated into the Carpathian mountains. He since then once made a mysterious return to the Blue Pelt sept, to grovel at their feet and ask for forgiveness for fleeing out on them. This rather demeaningly turned into him kissing the ragabash Bjorn's feet.
