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|fullname = Dakota Warner (maiden name), Dakota Winters (married name) |
|fullname = Dakota Warner (maiden name), Dakota Winters (married name) |
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| + | |deedname = Sings-the-Riddles-Of-the-Heart / Heartsinger (adren name) |
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|gender = Female |
|gender = Female |
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|breed = Homid |
|breed = Homid |
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|tribe = [[Children of Gaia]] |
|tribe = [[Children of Gaia]] |
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|auspice = [[Theurge]] |
|auspice = [[Theurge]] |
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+ | |rank = [[Adren]] |
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+ | |septpos = [[Master of Rites]] and Member of the [[Silver Seekers]]. |
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| − | |pack = [[Excelsior]] (under [[Black Unicorn]]). Formerly: [[Resonance]] (under [[Stag]], Hidden Walk), Preservation (under [[Moose]], Western Eye). |
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| + | Formerly: Master of Rites and [[Gatekeeper]] at the [[Hidden Walk]]. Former [[Guardian]] at the [[Western Eye]]. |
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|height = Average |
|height = Average |
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|hair = Dark Brown |
|hair = Dark Brown |
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|eyes = Dark Brown |
|eyes = Dark Brown |
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|demeanor = Sage |
|demeanor = Sage |
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|status = Alive / On-Screen |
|status = Alive / On-Screen |
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| − | |player = [[FerroIgnus]] |
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+ | |bgcolor = #E6E6FA |
| − | |headcolor = 9370DB |
+ | |headcolor = #9370DB |
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| + | |altimage = Art by Canis-Ferox on DeviantArt [[Image:KotaLupus.png|150px]]|birthdate = 1-4-1987|previouspacks = [[Resonance]] (under [[Stag]], Hidden Walk), Preservation (under [[Moose]], Western Eye), [[Excelsior]] (under [[Black Unicorn]], Triquetral Accord)|created = 10/31/2003|firsted = 2003 (offscreen)|cliath = 2/2006 (on-screen)|fostern = 4/2011 (offscreen)|adren = 1/2015 (on-screen)|reference = Marta Menegatti}} |
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| + | ==Background History== |
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| − | *'''Creation Date''': 10/2003 (Cub) |
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| − | *'''Departure Date''': 2/2006 (Cliath) |
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| + | The daughter of kinfolk, Dakota was shipped off to Saint Claire and the Hidden Walk when she had her First Change to be put under the tutelage of her older cousin, [[Alicia Jackson|Alicia]], who was already a fixture at the sept. She arrived Halloween of 2002. She proved to be a knowledge-hungry cub who was, in her early days, also known for being pretty feisty for a pup of Unicorn. She earned the name Faces-Down-Another’s-Rage for refusing to be intimidated by older cubs and Garou and eager to prove her mettle. |
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| − | *'''Return Date''': 4/2014 (Fostern) |
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| − | *'''Picture Reference''': Marta Menegatti |
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| − | *'''Current Status''': Active |
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| + | No sooner was she out the cubhood gates then she was tearing off at full speed. It was straight into the Sept Alpha [[Megan]]’s honorable Stag pack, by invitation no less, along with her cousin who was tribe elder and with other elders and high rankers. Starved as she was for learning any rite or gift someone would teach her, it wasn’t long before she had wedged herself in the position of first Master of Rites and then Gatekeeper - all while she was still Cliath. A surprise marriage to Glass Walker kinfolk, [[Jeremy Winters|Jeremy]], and two kinfolk sons later and she felt up to snuff to challenge for Fostern. She completed her tests and was waiting for final acknowledgement. |
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| + | Then it all crashed down. A dispute with a Shadow Lord over territory and the rights of her husband to defend himself blew rapidly into an ugly storm. Dakota, feeling in the right and bolstered by years of sitting on a pedestal and her own ego, felt confident enough to even snarl in the face of the Adren sept alpha. With punishments about to be rained down on her and her husband facing the death penalty, the Child of Gaia sent her family into hiding and fled to the Western Eye in the early months of 2008. |
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| − | ==History Part 1: Pride Before The Fall== |
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| − | Dakota was born amongst normal kinfolk who was sent off to a caern in Washington state known as The Hidden Walk upon her first change to be trained by her cousin, [[Alicia Jackson|Alicia]]. There she became quickly known as feisty, as Children of Gaia go, unafraid of a challenge and actually fairly competent in a battle - be it with creature of the Wyrm or sparring practice with Get of Fenris. Even more, though, she was a sponge when it came to anything even resembling spiritual knowledge and eagerly chased down any of the older Garou in the hopes she might learn a new bit of knowledge. She was barely out of her cubhood when she was asked to join a pack led by the sept alpha, [[Megan]], under stag, along with her own cousin (then Tribe Elder) and two other highly ranked Garou. Startled but well pleased by the honor, she accepted, and quickly gained recognition for the company she carried and the dedication she gave to her job. She even spent time as the guardian and caretaker of the sept's farmhouse, a rural safehouse just off the bawn where cubs and kinfolk spent much of their time. She was named Master of Rites and then Gatekeeper, a meteoric rise to power almost unheard of in a Cliath. In time, She even took a Glass Walker kin, named [[Jeremy Winters|Jeremy]], as a mate and bore two kinfolk sons. It didn't initially go over well, as the two eloped as opposed to asking the permission of their elders, but they were generally considered harmless and avoided punishments. She held strong relations with the tribes and with her connections and roles it seemed she was untouchable, on the fast track to fame. |
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| + | She didn’t escape punishment entirely. While her fellow tribemates were sympathetic to her wanting to protect her family, having abandoned her position of Gatekeeper was still a severe fault. To earn her place at the sept, redeem her failure, and to earn the right to re-challenge for her ungiven rank she would spend the entire span of five years, a year for each phase of the moon, assisting the Guardians and Elders and confined to the bawn. It was her sole duty to rededicate herself only to Gaia and the well-being of the caern. And so for five years, she was the lowest of the sept, performing whatever duties the resident Garou saw fit for her to assist with. One fight was brutal enough it left her right arm hanging by threads, an injury that almost killed her and remains a deep scar to this day. Most of it was peaceful, and she used her time in penance to continue to learn from the wise elder Theurges. |
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| − | In just a few short years after her Rite of Passage, she challenged for Fostern and was just waiting for acknowledgement at the next moot for the completion of the talens she was requested to make when everything came crashing down. A conflict between her, Jeremy, and a Shadow Lord found her mate labeled a traitor and slated for death. Fearing the frenzy of the Lord, he warned he had a silver-loaded gun he would use in self-defense though he never once fired or lifted it. Dakota’s adamant arguments that he was both only protecting himself and that killing him would leave their infant children without caretakers all fell on deaf ears and soon enough punishments were scheduled to fall upon her as well - primarily for her knowledge of the hidden weapon and for dishonorable conduct against her elders. Infuriated, confused, and terrified; one night Dakota bid the caern totem farewell and left the sept and moved her family into hiding. Jeremy took the boys to a safe haven and with him went a family friend, a Galliard Walker named Trent, to protect them. Alicia and Dakota went south to San Francisco and the Sept of the Western Eye, hoping the American stronghold of their tribe would provide respite and to seek out family that might be there. The year was 2006. |
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| + | In the spring of 2011, she was deemed to have completed her service. Humbler and wiser, she recreated the talens she had for her initially failed Fostern challenge. The Elders accepted, and she was given rank and place among the sept. For all she had finally succeeded, it was with a great cost. Her relationship with Jeremy was badly strained, her sons, only infants when she last truly saw them, not children who didn’t know her. While the family worked to repair their void, old fears on Jeremy’s part about the Garou would keep him separated and he travelled frequently with the boys to avoid anyone still looking for him, though he did help from the shadows when he could. |
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| − | ==History Part 2: The Meaning of Sacrifice== |
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| − | She told the sept elders of the Western Eye the whole story, and though compassionate as Children of Gaia are often known for, they were still displeased at the events. They stated that though her intentions to protect her family were noble and that she had been worthy of the Fostern rank that was never given, the risk she left the caern in by abandoning her post as Gatekeeper were appalling. In return for her remaining among them and being granted the rank, she would have to sacrifice that which she fought so hard to protect and instead remind herself of the true battle that needed fought. For the span of five years, one year for each phase of the moon, she was not to leave the bawn nor have contact with the family she sent away to protect - instead giving her time and attention fully to the well-being of the caern and the duties of her auspice and tribe. If she failed, she would be cast away, dishonored and septless. If she succeeded, she would we welcome and free to challenge for rank once more. Trusting Trent to keep her family safe, Dakota agreed, mourning the separation from her family but knowing full well she needed to regain her honor if she had any chance of being little more than a ronin. |
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| − | She lived through those five years, not quite an accepted member but grudgingly welcomed like an errant family member all the same. She assisted however she could. She following the Groundskeeper to help tend the land and learn the bawn and the spirits who lived there. She ran with the Guardian packs, striking down those who threatened the caern. She listened at the feet of the ancient and wise Ritemaster and Gatekeeper, learning what they would offer and honing her own skills and knowledge with the same hungry fervor she was known for as a cub. She came to be well known and regarded at the Western Eye and even came to know of some distant relations still residing there from both her Gaian and Fury lineages. She came to know the latter quite closely, enraptured by the stories of her maternal grandfather, Justinian "Restores-the-Wastelands" Petropolis, who was born among the Furies and came to rise to the Athro ranks among the Children as a firm but fair Philodox who’s patient, wise counsel was frequently sought. |
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| − | It was not easy living, however. Long used to an urban life, the homid-born Dakota chafed at the prolonged life on the bawn. The Muir Woods were a wild labyrinth of woodland in the midst of the city she could only ever see at a distance through the trees. As years passed, she began to grow more accustomed to living as a wolf than a human, pushing away memories of her lost family and life and focusing solely on that day, that next meal, the next fight, the next spirit she needed to work with. She spent a great deal of time interacting with the small, well-protected kinpack sheltered deep in the forest. She stopped thinking of the past and stopped thinking of the future, losing herself in the here and now and taking herself out of the equation. To keep herself grounded in her humanity, she took up practices like Buddhist zen and meditation techniques from the native Uktena of the sept, using it to connect herself to the greater spirit world and her place in it all. She learned to dismiss her anger and her grief, to move past the pain of her exodus from the Hidden Walk and her own flaws. Among it all, she nearly lost her life in a battle with a bane who managed to make it onto the bawn. In the end, she barely held on to her life and her right arm. The scarring and damage would never fully heal and leave her with hampered motion and sensation. |
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| − | When Dakota stepped before the moot at the end of the fifth year, a chilly spring night in 2011, she was no longer the young, too-proud, naive Theurge that came to them. She was scarred physically, humbled mentally, and had grown spiritually. She’d come to terms and peace with herself and her mistakes and was ready to move forward. With the approval of the sept’s spirits and Garou, her punishment was finally lifted. She challenged on the spot for the rank of Fostern, which was accepted. For the challenge, she was to recreate the talens that she had made for her last challenge. What she presented was what was termed Luck Candy. Hardened circles of raw, naturally-gathered honey each contained a wild four-leaf clover. They were bound with the spirit of a rabbit, and provided the consumer a one-time boon at a particular action. Pleased with the results, the elder fostern declared the challenge a success. Dakota was given then a new name, Sacrifices-the-Heart’s-Blood in remembrance of what she had given up in penance. |
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| − | It came as no surprise to her, a few months later, when she was finally reunited with her mate and sons that the boys had no recollection of who she was. They hadn’t even been a year old when she’d last seen them, now nearly six. Jeremy was hurt, angry that she had agreed to be apart, bitter at the knowledge it was the only thing she could do. She let them go. She would always love Jeremy, but too many years had past and there was never a guarantee he would be safe. Her sons saw their mother as someone else, a Walker kinfolk who helped raised them. She relinquished them with a broken heart, giving them fully into the care of the Glass Walkers, and bidding goodbye to the family she had nearly lost everything for. |
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| + | In the meantime, Dakota had joined with the Guardian pack under Moose to put her years of bawn knowledge to use. She hadn’t quite paid attention to the totem’s ban, however, and when spring rolled back around she was made aware Moose insisted his followers find the strongest mate and breed. Awkward. Her husband was over in Thailand and neither able to reach the other. So, having come to be familiar with the local kinpack hidden in the Muir Woods, Dakota sought her mate among them. In the spring of 2012 she gave birth to three pups, one of whom had bred true. She watched over them until they were old enough to be tended by the pack before returning to her duties. |
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| − | ==History Part 3: Nowhere Left But Up== |
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[[File:643031-bigthumbnail.jpg|thumb|Dakota's Pups]] |
[[File:643031-bigthumbnail.jpg|thumb|Dakota's Pups]] |
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| + | For all she was doing well, something just wasn’t right. Her abandonment of the Hidden Walk still haunted her and ultimately she decided she needed to go tie up loose ends. Alicia grudgingly followed her back north, and Dakota returned to the Hidden Walk in April of 2014. |
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| − | With her past behind her, Dakota immersed herself in the Western Eye as a full member of the Sept. So accustomed to the bawn and the spirits there, she was a natural fit for one of the Guardian packs. Named Preservation, under the totem of Moose, they were closely associated with the Groundskeeper in both depending and keeping the Muir Woodlands healthy and clean. Their totem’s request, however, was one that took her by surprise. Moose’s seasonal requests mostly dealt around the keeping of the land, but as autumn approached she came to learn that Moose requested his followers breed with the best suited mate. So soon after the loss of her own family, the idea of even thinking of being with someone else was painful. She had vowed she would not take a husband again after splitting with Jeremy. Unwilling to risk the anger of her pack totem, she sought out a compromise. The resident pack of Uktena and Gaian wolves was accepting of her presence and so Dakota sought her company with them. Secretly, she was grateful when nothing came of it. |
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| + | She had her meets and greets with old and new faces upon her return and found that over all there wasn’t much in the way of bad blood. Bolstered, she made amends to the Garou she had felt she wronged - among them [[Jamethon]], one of her oldest teachers and peers, who had nominated her personally for the very position of Gatekeeper that she had abandoned. A brief trial later and her apology was accepted. Settling back into her old home, Dakota came to the decision to stay and ultimately began a new back with Alicia under the Black Unicorn. |
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| − | 2012 was a busy year. Tourists were particularly heavy around the woods and the pack was kept on their toes ensuring no one managed to sneak through the bawn’s misleading defenses. Taking advantage of it, Spirals were seen for the first time in several years making a direct attack on the caern. Dakota was in on the fray and even managed to reclaim two of their fetishes that had been stolen from other Garou and cleansed them before turning them over to the Sept Elders. She continued expanding her knowledge, seeking out Rites from among the elder Theurges and trading talens and errands in exchange. For the most part, the year was peaceful, and she relished the chance to get to live as a full community member. The Sept was pleased, even more when fall came once again and she became pregnant to one of the well-bred Gaian wolves. |
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| + | Since then, she’s been helping topple DNA, razing the Hellfire pack who followed Green Dragon and even summoning the Talons of Horus to battle the corrupt totem, and rescuing an infant Spiral Homid cub that came to be adopted by her cousin and Alicia’s kinfolk brother, Benedict, after she and Jamethon Exorcised the Black Spiral kinfetch. In October of 2014, as the resident Ritemistress stepped down to attend other duties, Dakota felt confident enough to step up. In December of that year, she even developed a brand new ritual of [[Honoring the Spirit Friend|Honoring The Spirit Friend]]. Bolstered by her successes, she challenged her old friend [[Kevin Lockwood|Kevin]] for the rank of Adren and succeeded at the turn of 2015. |
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| − | On a moonless spring night, she gave birth to three pups, one of which was born true. She struggled to bond with them, still plagued by the memory of her two older sons she had all but abandoned, but she cared for them well and ensured they were well associated with the pack who would take over a bulk of their care when the moon was heavy. When they were old enough to eat meat, she left them fully in the care of their sire and pack and returned to her duties - though she always kept a wistful, watchful eye on them. For all she was content at the Western Eye, memories still plagued her. The life she could have had and was lost never fully left her mind no matter how much she meditated and tried to banish it. There was still a ghost to exorcise. |
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| + | Investigations into the [[Down Like Dominoes|Spiral Revolution]] continue. In mid-February 2015, an experiment is organized to try and puzzle out the workings behind the Spiral glyphs. The danger of getting badly Tainted or frenzying is deemed very high. Dakota, in light of being an experienced Theurge but not the sept's highest rank, is asked to volunteer for the job. She accepts, though not without ensuring she's protected, creating a talen along with Jamethon to ensure she's got an early warning should things go south. With her pack keeping watch, she's able to research a holographic model map of the city and the glyphs long enough to learn about some of the forces and players behind it before the talen triggers and drives her into a fox frenzy to escape. Minus what's going to amount to a lot of sleepless nights, she seems left no worse off with valuable information in her pocket. |
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| − | In the late summer of 2013, she bid her pack and the Western Eye farewell. Wanderlust set in, and she spent the fall and winter months traveling through the Umbra, stopping in septs as she passed to trade stories and knowledge for a place to rest. Dakota lived more like a Strider than a Child of Gaia as she sought out the reasons why her heart couldn’t rest. Halloween was spent telling ghost stories at a Uktena sept outside of New Orleans. Thanksgiving was cooking for the homeless with the Children and Gnawers in New York City. She even spent Christmas in a revelrous, half-drunken stupor at a Fenrir sept in Ohio sharing stories of glory with a few old, familiar faces. It was on a journey into her tribal homeland as the snow began to melt that she came to her realization. |
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| − | She had made peace with herself. She had let her family go free. Never, though, had she thought about making amends with the sept that she had first called home. Feeling it was the last missing piece in being able to finally move forward, she reached out to her cousin, Alicia, and asked if she was willing to return to Washington. It took some convincing, but she finally agreed. For the first time in eight years, Dakota turned her eyes towards the Hidden Walk and hoped she might be able to close an old, painful wound at last. |
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| − | In April of 2014, Dakota and Alicia returned to Saint Claire. Quickly meeting some old and new faces, they made their presence known to [[Topsy]] and offered chiminage, which was set to be the sharing of ritual knowledge to a member of another tribe and to assist in the repairs to their new tribal safehouse. She taught [[Dirk Duncan|Dirk]] the Rite of Talisman Dedication as a returning chiminage, more as a formality than anything, and assisted in preparing the new Child of Gaia safehouse at the [[End of the Line]]. She then focused on rapidly assembled the bones of a new war pack with her cousin to help defend the sept and St. Claire from an onslaught of threats looming at the door. Named Excelsior, the varied blend of fast-gathered Garou suffering a grave crisis of faith during the harrowing totem quest - though so far they seem the stronger and more united for it. |
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| − | Additionally, penance finally was given a chance to be fulfilled when she was reunited with [[Jamethon]], the very Theurge whom she looked to as her most respected teacher and who she had succeeded as Gatekeeper upon his good faith she could handle the job. Her apologies were given and a choice was offered - "I acknowledge Snowtop-rhya's wisdom. If you are satisfied in her judgment, then I will leave you be and never again call upon you. Or, if you would accept the Groundskeeper's challenge and prove your honor still exists here with success, he would speak for you once more. I dare not think on what it would mean to accept this challenge and to fail." Without hesitation she accepted, knowing she would never be satisfied to know she had failed him and did not repay the debt. The terms were set: To seek out a spirit that James worked closely with and learn its name. She did just that, travelling deep into the mountains and making the aquaintance of a mysterious earth elemental. She reported back to Jamethon after she'd taken time to consider what she had learned and her quest was deemed successful and she took up the duty of assistant Gatekeeper on the spot. |
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| − | In the time since, she's tangled with bringing down DNA in Saint Claire who had been kidnapping kin and Garou. She helped a tech-infused wolf and the van that released it, recovering the license plate that ultimately led the sept to the stronghold that was later flooded by the Garou to flush out their prey. DNA was driven out of town and their prisoners secured. Additionally, along with her pack, she's been apart of the destruction of three Black Spiral packs - two involved in the riots that began in Saint Claire and nationwide in 2014 that led to the fall of numerous septs. Among them was the powerful Hellfire pack under Green Dragon. In all three attacks not a single Gaian Garou was lost, with Dakota fueling numerous talens to assist in the battles and Summoning the Talons of Horus to battle the Hellfire's violent totem head to head. Hopes are the loss of the lead riot pack may be enough to stall the Wyrm's attempts in the region. |
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| − | Ongoing is a battle against a corrupting influence, apparently spiritual in nature. It turned a house in their territory into a black hole that consumed spirits around them. This also appeared during the Great Hunt, infesting the Black Spiral Dancers, and in a failed venture seeking a lost fetish near the ruins of the old caern at Hanford. During the battle against the forces infesting the house, she saved Jamethon from death at the hands of a reality warping charm and assisted in purging and Cleansing the site. The war is far from over though. |
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| + | On February 3rd, 2016 after a large amount of time and effort, Dakota completed creation of her first fetish. Along with that made by Jamethon at the same time, the sept was now the birthplace of two fetishes in a very, very long time. Her creation was called an omen brush, a modern recreation of an ancient White Howler fetish of the same name and used to divine the past, present, and future. Not long after, at the end of March, it was decided that her pack, Excelsior, had run its course and it was time for the Garou involved to follow new callings. |
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==Appearance== |
==Appearance== |
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*She's got connections at the Western Eye among the Garou and kin populations |
*She's got connections at the Western Eye among the Garou and kin populations |
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*She is utterly voracious when it comes to ritual knowledge. No, serious, she's a shark - she'll try to learn whatever you wanna offer. She's equally delighted to teach, so don't be afraid to ask. She's a devout believer in the sharing of knowledge. ((OOC: If you wanna learn something that would be appropriate to you, just ask!)) |
*She is utterly voracious when it comes to ritual knowledge. No, serious, she's a shark - she'll try to learn whatever you wanna offer. She's equally delighted to teach, so don't be afraid to ask. She's a devout believer in the sharing of knowledge. ((OOC: If you wanna learn something that would be appropriate to you, just ask!)) |
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| − | *I'm not opposed to someone wishing to play her Lupus pup. |
+ | *I'm not opposed to someone wishing to play her Lupus pup. Just let me know! |
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==Relevant Sheet Info== |
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| + | |title = [[Master of Rites]] |
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Latest revision as of 03:33, 21 October 2017
| Dakota Winters | |
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| IC Information | |
| Full Name: | Dakota Warner (maiden name), Dakota Winters (married name) |
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| Deed Name: | Sings-the-Riddles-Of-the-Heart / Heartsinger (adren name)
In the past: Faces-Down-Another's-Rage/Faces-Rage (cub name), Heals-the-Rifts-Of-Man/Rifthealer (cliath name), Sacrifices-the-Heart's-Blood/Heart's-Blood (fostern name). |
| Gender: | Female |
| Birthdate: | 1-4-1987 |
| Breed: | Homid |
| Tribe: | Children of Gaia |
| Auspice: | Theurge |
| Rank: | Adren |
| Sept Position: | Master of Rites and Member of the Silver Seekers.
Formerly: Master of Rites and Gatekeeper at the Hidden Walk. Former Guardian at the Western Eye. |
| Pack: | none |
| Previous Packs: | Resonance (under Stag, Hidden Walk), Preservation (under Moose, Western Eye), Excelsior (under Black Unicorn, Triquetral Accord) |
| Height: | Average |
| Weight: | Average |
| Hair: | Dark Brown |
| Eyes: | Dark Brown |
| Nature: | Confidant |
| Demeanor: | Sage |
| Dates | |
| Creation Date: | 10/31/2003 |
| First Change: | 2003 (offscreen) |
| Cliath Rank: | 2/2006 (on-screen) |
| Fostern Rank: | 4/2011 (offscreen) |
| Adren Rank: | 1/2015 (on-screen) |
| OOC Information | |
| Photo Reference: | Marta Menegatti |
| Status: | Alive / On-Screen |
| Player: | FerroIgnus |
Art by Canis-Ferox on DeviantArt 
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Background History[]
Daniel and Roger Winters (age 6)
The daughter of kinfolk, Dakota was shipped off to Saint Claire and the Hidden Walk when she had her First Change to be put under the tutelage of her older cousin, Alicia, who was already a fixture at the sept. She arrived Halloween of 2002. She proved to be a knowledge-hungry cub who was, in her early days, also known for being pretty feisty for a pup of Unicorn. She earned the name Faces-Down-Another’s-Rage for refusing to be intimidated by older cubs and Garou and eager to prove her mettle.
No sooner was she out the cubhood gates then she was tearing off at full speed. It was straight into the Sept Alpha Megan’s honorable Stag pack, by invitation no less, along with her cousin who was tribe elder and with other elders and high rankers. Starved as she was for learning any rite or gift someone would teach her, it wasn’t long before she had wedged herself in the position of first Master of Rites and then Gatekeeper - all while she was still Cliath. A surprise marriage to Glass Walker kinfolk, Jeremy, and two kinfolk sons later and she felt up to snuff to challenge for Fostern. She completed her tests and was waiting for final acknowledgement.
Then it all crashed down. A dispute with a Shadow Lord over territory and the rights of her husband to defend himself blew rapidly into an ugly storm. Dakota, feeling in the right and bolstered by years of sitting on a pedestal and her own ego, felt confident enough to even snarl in the face of the Adren sept alpha. With punishments about to be rained down on her and her husband facing the death penalty, the Child of Gaia sent her family into hiding and fled to the Western Eye in the early months of 2008.
She didn’t escape punishment entirely. While her fellow tribemates were sympathetic to her wanting to protect her family, having abandoned her position of Gatekeeper was still a severe fault. To earn her place at the sept, redeem her failure, and to earn the right to re-challenge for her ungiven rank she would spend the entire span of five years, a year for each phase of the moon, assisting the Guardians and Elders and confined to the bawn. It was her sole duty to rededicate herself only to Gaia and the well-being of the caern. And so for five years, she was the lowest of the sept, performing whatever duties the resident Garou saw fit for her to assist with. One fight was brutal enough it left her right arm hanging by threads, an injury that almost killed her and remains a deep scar to this day. Most of it was peaceful, and she used her time in penance to continue to learn from the wise elder Theurges.
In the spring of 2011, she was deemed to have completed her service. Humbler and wiser, she recreated the talens she had for her initially failed Fostern challenge. The Elders accepted, and she was given rank and place among the sept. For all she had finally succeeded, it was with a great cost. Her relationship with Jeremy was badly strained, her sons, only infants when she last truly saw them, not children who didn’t know her. While the family worked to repair their void, old fears on Jeremy’s part about the Garou would keep him separated and he travelled frequently with the boys to avoid anyone still looking for him, though he did help from the shadows when he could.
In the meantime, Dakota had joined with the Guardian pack under Moose to put her years of bawn knowledge to use. She hadn’t quite paid attention to the totem’s ban, however, and when spring rolled back around she was made aware Moose insisted his followers find the strongest mate and breed. Awkward. Her husband was over in Thailand and neither able to reach the other. So, having come to be familiar with the local kinpack hidden in the Muir Woods, Dakota sought her mate among them. In the spring of 2012 she gave birth to three pups, one of whom had bred true. She watched over them until they were old enough to be tended by the pack before returning to her duties.
Dakota's Pups
For all she was doing well, something just wasn’t right. Her abandonment of the Hidden Walk still haunted her and ultimately she decided she needed to go tie up loose ends. Alicia grudgingly followed her back north, and Dakota returned to the Hidden Walk in April of 2014.
She had her meets and greets with old and new faces upon her return and found that over all there wasn’t much in the way of bad blood. Bolstered, she made amends to the Garou she had felt she wronged - among them Jamethon, one of her oldest teachers and peers, who had nominated her personally for the very position of Gatekeeper that she had abandoned. A brief trial later and her apology was accepted. Settling back into her old home, Dakota came to the decision to stay and ultimately began a new back with Alicia under the Black Unicorn.
Since then, she’s been helping topple DNA, razing the Hellfire pack who followed Green Dragon and even summoning the Talons of Horus to battle the corrupt totem, and rescuing an infant Spiral Homid cub that came to be adopted by her cousin and Alicia’s kinfolk brother, Benedict, after she and Jamethon Exorcised the Black Spiral kinfetch. In October of 2014, as the resident Ritemistress stepped down to attend other duties, Dakota felt confident enough to step up. In December of that year, she even developed a brand new ritual of Honoring The Spirit Friend. Bolstered by her successes, she challenged her old friend Kevin for the rank of Adren and succeeded at the turn of 2015.
Current Events[]
Investigations into the Spiral Revolution continue. In mid-February 2015, an experiment is organized to try and puzzle out the workings behind the Spiral glyphs. The danger of getting badly Tainted or frenzying is deemed very high. Dakota, in light of being an experienced Theurge but not the sept's highest rank, is asked to volunteer for the job. She accepts, though not without ensuring she's protected, creating a talen along with Jamethon to ensure she's got an early warning should things go south. With her pack keeping watch, she's able to research a holographic model map of the city and the glyphs long enough to learn about some of the forces and players behind it before the talen triggers and drives her into a fox frenzy to escape. Minus what's going to amount to a lot of sleepless nights, she seems left no worse off with valuable information in her pocket.
On February 3rd, 2016 after a large amount of time and effort, Dakota completed creation of her first fetish. Along with that made by Jamethon at the same time, the sept was now the birthplace of two fetishes in a very, very long time. Her creation was called an omen brush, a modern recreation of an ancient White Howler fetish of the same name and used to divine the past, present, and future. Not long after, at the end of March, it was decided that her pack, Excelsior, had run its course and it was time for the Garou involved to follow new callings.
Appearance[]
In homid, Dakota appears as a woman in her late twenties and of average height and weight, athletic and fit but neither overbuilt or too lean. She's predominantly caucasian in appearance, but had the thick, wavy hair one might expect better suited on a Mediterranean woman - save her's is brown in color instead of black. Her eyes are large and expressive, a dark brown in color, though couched in the fewest hints of early creases.
She wears basic rustic-styled 'trendy' clothing, a sort of Bohemian flare, though generally doesn't wear much in the way of jewelry. In her wolf forms, she clearly displays her close Fury heritage, in a glossy dark pelt that appears black until it's under significant sunlight in which it shows itself to be a very dark brown. Her throat is marked with a splash of white and her eyes are a clear deep amber.
The evidence of old scars is generally hidden under clothing or fur, save her hands which have old burn-like scars tinged grey-black, like someone had marked them with ash. A jagged, large scar runs from the back of her right shoulder blade up across and over her collar bone to her chest. Normal eyes may see it as some sign of an accident with a power tool or a car, though close inspection to those familiar suggests the ragged edges look more like marks of gigantic teeth.
Hooks and Contacts[]
- She's got connections at the Western Eye among the Garou and kin populations
- She is utterly voracious when it comes to ritual knowledge. No, serious, she's a shark - she'll try to learn whatever you wanna offer. She's equally delighted to teach, so don't be afraid to ask. She's a devout believer in the sharing of knowledge. ((OOC: If you wanna learn something that would be appropriate to you, just ask!))
- I'm not opposed to someone wishing to play her Lupus pup. Just let me know!
Relevant Sheet Info[]
| Physical | Social | Mental | |||
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| Strength: | 3 | Charisma: | 4 Specialization: Approachable
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Perception: | 3 |
| Dexterity: | 3 | Manipulation: | 3 | Intelligence: | 3 |
| Stamina: | 3 | Appearance: | 2 | Wits: | 3 |
| Rage | Willpower | Gnosis | |||
| 4 | 6 | 7 | |||
| Backgrounds | |
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| Allies: 1, Contacts: 1, Resources: 1, Totem: 3 | |
| Allies | Jeremy, Glass Walker Kinfolk / Husband |
| Contacts | Two-Moons-By-Day, an Athro Uktena Homid Theurge at the Western Eye |
| Gifts | |
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| Rank 1 | Echoes, Mother's Touch, Persuasion, Resist Pain, Sense Wyrm, Spirit Speech, Water Conning, Spirit Snare |
| Rank 2 | Command Spirit, Luna's Armor, Name the Spirit, Unicorn's Arsenal |
| Rank 3 | Exorcism, Speech Of All Things, Spirit Friend |
| Rank 4 | None |
| Rank 5 | None |
Fetishes and Talens[]
- Fetish: Omen Brush. Level 1, Gnosis 5. This fetish is a small, wood-handled paintbrush polished and sealed with beeswax. It is carved with the Garou glyphs for 'sight', 'history', and 'future' as well as Pictish-style symbology of a squirrel, mirror, and time, all of which are carefully inlaid with teeny bits of emerald. The bristles are made of the carefully trimmed and shaped hair from an albino squirrel, held in place with a thin copper band. It is often kept in a small protective pouch of tanned leather and hide made of the squirrel who's fur provided the brushhead.
- System: Made with the fur of an albino animal (though the Howlers sometimes used the fur of prophetic white-coated Garou), then bound with the same kind of spirit. When activated, the brush allows its wielder to paint visions of what has come before and what will happen in the future. An Intelligence + Enigmas roll (difficulty 7) is required to interpret the painting's significance and symbolism.
Leadership[]
| Preceded by: Trevor |
Master of Rites 2005-2006 |
Succeeded by: Gunnar |
| Preceded by: Jamethon |
Gatekeeper 2005-2006 |
Succeeded by: Ciuraq |
| Preceded by: Maddie |
Master of Rites 2014-Jul 2017 |
Succeeded by: Felix |
