It has been too long since I’ve properly re-introduced werewolves to Khallam.  My original conception of Khallam in the Old World of Darkness was very much in line with its relationship between werewolves and vampires.  With the new World of Darkness I can still go that route or shake it up and for the sake of allowing mixed groups I think I will.  Still, I like the idea of the woods and Ravenscross being so forbidden and dangerous.  So, enter the Pure.  I’ve already hinted at this with the character of Back Again Jim, the ancient Gangrel who has awakened and is key to the future of the long running and brutal conflict between the lycanthropes and hemophages.

I will introduce a newly minted pack of experienced wolves into Khallam who are ambassadors of sorts.  They are here to build relations on the part of a larger California interest in Khallam but find that even vampires who want to build relations are scarred by more than a century of brutal warfare and bigotry runs deep – maybe on both sides.  The pack won’t all be peaceful hippies.  There is still a need to carry a big stick and the larger werewolf tribal leaders who arranged this know that the vampires won’t respect weakness – but at the same time sending in a pack of truly war scarred wolves might be seen as open hostility.

Current Thoughts:

A warrior of a lodge called the Painted Claws who believes that vampires are unwitting servants of a powerful enthalpy spirit called the Devouring Wyrm.  They seek to cut the disease from the world and know a lot about vampires.  He is a moderate and would rather see them turned against themselves.  Most bigoted of group but also knowledgable and looking for angles and factions among vampires.

A Japanese half moon and face man.

An aboriginal american mystic.  She is disturbed by the lack of spirit activity.  Most spirits have been enslaved by the Pure and breaking that hold would be important but there is more.  There is a local spirit who is very powerful but she can never see it and loses sight of it among the stars.  There is also something wrong with the earth, some reason that spirit never lands here, something under neath … and there are a lot of hallows …

An Iron Masters trickster.  Because I like them.

And one or two others me thinks.