Oog van de Wereld

Mourad "Oog van de Wereld" Osmanoğlu
Homid	Philodox	Shadowlords

The Story so Far:

Before Delft

Mourad was a Shadow Lord Philodox of Half-Turkish, Half-Dutch descent from the legendary Ashina dynasty, mostly found today in the Garou branches of the Osmanoğlu family. Mourad was born in Ankara to the Shadow Lord Cemal "Sultan" Osmanoğlu, Homid, Ahroun, Shadow Lord, Adren and his mother, a Dutch Kinfolk from Delft. It was revealed from the moment of Mourad's birth under the Waning Moon through a Rite of Baptism of Fire that he was to be a Garou and thus he was groomed as such from an early age. His First Change, however, did not occur until the start of the Age of Apocalypse, when the Dark Brigades fell upon and broke the Sept of Istanbul. It was the sight of the armies of the Wyrm, raging across the Umbra, that sent Mourad into his first frenzy.

Once Istanbul had fallen, the Sept was shattered beyond repair. His father took his own with him and took to becoming a warband, a wandering pack not sworn to a Sept Alpha. He needed a place to keep his son safe and decided to allow him to go the Bluepelt Sept, the Sept that protected his wife's hometown and that had survived the initial impact of the Age of Apocalypse. Mourad had been pushing for this since even before his first change, since he preferred his human "matties" in Delft over the dour and serious company of the Turkish Garou. Mourad arrived in Delft in April 2017 by plane and took up residence in one of his father's prime vacant real estate homes in the Binnenstad.

A Garou of the Bluepelt Sept

He was taught his final lessons in the ways of the Garou, which came more naturally now that he actually possessed the full body and mind of one, by Call to Duty and John "Rises Again" Blackfoot. After the many lessons, he was given a Rite of Passage: he was to compensate for the reputation loss suffered by the Bluepelt Sept after Annemaria "Open Deur" negotiated a deal with a Vampire known as the Nachtchirurgijn and Guiding Hand spread dark tidings of this dead across the Garou Nation. Mourad travelled from the Great Septs of America to those of Russia and many in between, hearing many tales of the Litany and this deed's relationship to it. He left both good and less good impressions in high places and eventually managed to convince an Elder Philodox of the Silent Striders, "Het Geloof," to vouch openly for the honour and justice of the Sept's deed, provided that the Sept proved its continuing enmity towards Vampires in the near future. When within less than a few months the Vampire known as the Kindermaker was vanquished by the Sept, the agreement came into full effect. Mourad had restored this part of the reputation of Bluepelt in the eyes of the world. "Oog van de Wereld" was thus to be his name.

Pack Corvus

As soon as Oog van de Wereld had become a Cliath, he immediately began to form his own Pack. Even before his Rite of Passage he had been paying tribute and chiminage to Torenkraai, a Storm Crow spirit, with the ambition of taking it as his Totem when the time came. His preparation paid off and within a week after their Rites of Passage, Oog van de Wereld, Diepste Dal and Vuurproef formed the Pack Corvus, with Oog van de Wereld as its Alpha. The pack busied itself with keeping a watchful eye on the happenings of Delft on both sides of the Gauntlet, to prepare long-term knowledge to sharpen the Garou's short-term power. When the Dire Wolves, in their final moons, let Tanthof slip into Wyrm corruption under their protection, Oog van de Wereld drove a knife into his stomach to punish himself for his own inaction, then accused Nekbreker, the Elder Philodox and a member of the Pack, of not adequately preventing the breeding of the Wyrm and thereby showing a less thorough practice of the Litany; he Challenged for the position of Elder Philodox. The Challenge, which involved slaying a Fomor in Tanthof, was won (barely) by Oog van de Wereld, who became the new Elder Philodox.

This same Tanthof was to become the territory of Pack Corvus, where the Pack fought a prolonged campaign against the remaining Fomor of THC, a fight that Mourad would not live to see the end of. Corvus' Totem was eventually placed in the tallest tree of the Sept grounds with the aid of the Theurge Trinity, from where the crow spirit could keep a watchful eye out across all of Delft, warning the Garou of incoming dangers and aiding Corvus in gathering information from the surrounding lands. It was during this time that Mourad also swore an oath to Diepste Dal, who was known to take great risks in his Umbral quests, that Mourad would personally kill him if he deemed him to have fallen too far from his purpose as a Garou. As the Pack became more unified, it also changed in composition: Vuurproef, the Pack's Black Fury Ahroun and Omega, left Delft for her Tribe's homeland of Greece, to live amongst her kin. She was replaced by Swims Deeper, a Theurge from the Children of Gaia and a known expert on both animals and Fera. Towards the end of the Pack's life cycle, a Silent Strider Ragabash by the name of Lex Ferenda also joined the pack.

Diepste Dal's dubious research methods paid off, however. Many pieces of forbidden knowledge, most from beyond the accepted (and in Mourad's eyes short-sighted) lore kept by the Sanctum of Gaia. A highlight amongst these finds was a page from the ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛, containing ancient theories on the origins of ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. Later additions to the Pack's repertoire of artefacts included a White Howler axe, which they took it upon themselves to cleanse on behalf of the Sept Alpha, and various occult tomes and deals.

The Litany

Besides being the Alpha of Corvus, Oog van de Wereld also held the position of Truthcatcher of the Bluepelt Sept for around half a year. From this position, he maintained a very literal and hardline view of the rules of the Litany, with a few rather progressive exceptions. One notable ruling made was that the tenet that states that all Garou must "Combat the Wyrm wherever it dwells and whenever it breeds" does not, in this Philodox' eyes, necessarily decree that Garou must fight all creatures of the Wyrm at all times. Instead, Mourad opted for a more pragmatic approach, where one is allowed to disregard and even feign 'shared goals' towards creatures of the Wyrm, provided it is in the long-term pursuit of combating the Wyrm. Another caveat on this rule was that, while one is allowed to speak to those who serve the Wyrm, one may never truly partake in a deal with these creatures that they intend to uphold; deceit is a weapon that can be used against the Wyrm, but it must never become a seed of betrayal. Oog van de Wereld inherited his views from the Shadow Lords' Judges of Doom camp, which dedicated itself to bringing swift (and lethal) justice to those individuals whose ideals, methods and deeds blasphemed against the tenets of the Litany. It is known that Mourad partook in various missions on behalf of this camp, although he never shared any details with anyone else, not even his Pack.

Death

Oog van de Wereld met his demise during an unexpected turn of events. He was sent ahead to scout out a known location of Spiral activity by the War Leader, in preparation for an all-out attack on the site. When he arrived, he called upon his pacts with crow spirits of misdirection and distraction to cloak himself in feathers that rendered him invisible to most observers, as he often did when spying. What had not been clear, however, was that the Spiral in question had been summoning large amounts of Banes at the site, whose corrupted sight of fire and brimstone could burn through his cloak of misdirection. Oog van de Wereld was spotted and in a torrent of swearing, taunting and flashing gang signs threw himself onto his foes. He cut a swathe through the Banes in his Glabro form, fast and light, cutting them to ribbons of dark Gnosis. But the Black Spiral Dancer proved too much, even when Oog van de Wereld shifted into his Crinos form, grey-furred like the Grey She-Wolf he descended from. His blood stained the site and Oog van de Wereld fell, never to rise again.

In December 2018, Mourad "Oog van de Wereld" Osmanoğlu, Homid, Philodox, Shadow Lord, Fostern was personally taken to his dynasty's Umbral ancestral homeland by an avatar of Grandfather Thunder, where his spirit will reside among his ancestors. He was posthumously granted the rank of Fostern for his deeds in life and died with honour.

Rank:

Fostern

Pack:

Former Pack Alpha of Corvus

Positions:

• Former Elder Philodox of the Bluepelt Sept
• Former Den Parent of the Bluepelt Sept