Absalom Ruthven

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain [Samuel Longhorne Clemens], Following the Equator

Race	Werewolf
Splat	Shadow Lord
Title	Beta Male, Enforcer, war master

Physical Description
Absalom’s Eastern European roots are obvious in his build. His nose is long and aquiline, his hair dark and his goatee neat and pointed. Eyes so dark that they seem to absorb all the available light stare without blinking or wavering while his taunt muscles quiver in readiness. In Lupus form he is a sleek, jet black wolf with a lean build. This transfers to his Crinos also

Personality
Absalom suffers from a little Hollywooditus. He has watched far too many gangster movies and now talks like Ray Liotta, Robert de Niro or Joe Pesci all in his gravel and Bela Lugosi accent. This foible however does little to alter the fact that he is an awe inspiring man and a terror inducing Garou. A Ragabsh with a very dark sense of humour, Absalom is pragmatic in speech and cold in temperament.

Story
Born in Romania, Absalom lost his parents at an early age and took to a life of petty street crime. He gathered a small gang of kids and terrorised the neighbourhood for several years before a pack of true gangsters moved in and started killing their junior rivals. Seeing his friends gunned down triggered Absalom's first change and he tore into the thugs in Crinos, shrugging off what few rounds they managed to get into him. Once his senses returned, Absalom fled the scene of dismembered carcasses never to return.

Eventually Shadow Lords found him by following advise from his Spirit fetch and brought him to the Sept of the Night Sky. He grew to become an adept Ragabash, if a slightly abrasive one. He took easily to the most distasteful tasks needed by his leaders and leant the art of problem solving and problem removal with style. Adopted by the powerful Elder Vaslev, Absalom became a major force in the Shadow Lords dominance of local Mafia. He bartered his natural ability to scare others into a well oiled syndicate of organised crime, and brought his sept an ever widening grip on the Romanian underworld. His troubles began when he mingled with members of other tribes. Always a visionary and a believer in Shadow Lord supremacy Absalom found it necessary to inform visiting Silver Fang and Get of Fenrir how lucky they were to be allowed to exist in the east. His habit of bluntness and complete disdain for all other Garou made him a liability to the Sept and was 'transferred' to Vaslev Ruthven's Pack for good when the elder received permission to travel to Gotham.

He was Vaslev's top enforcer and when the time came to oust the Wyrm tainted Silver fangs, he took to the task with a relish born of single minded purpose. His outspoken nature allowed Vaslev to manufacture an 'incident' that led to an inter sept war, and in their frenzy the Silver fang revealed their tainted natures. When the mist cleared the Fangs were all dead and Vaslev Ruthven was the Alpha of Gotham's Garou. Ever since then, Absalom has been Vaslev's war master, enforcer and Right hand man. His experience in dealing with the scum of the streets and his ability to produce pant pissing terror in the toughest hood make him the ideal henchman, Absalom wears the title of Beta male with pride.