Tobias Clemming

Background:

Tobias' life started out in a fairly normal fashion, his parents and immediate family living in New York and running a small taxi company, a resource in good demand in the city that never sleeps. From Mary and James Clemming he learnt a strong work ethic, the value of contacts and alliance for a small business in a city full of competitors, and to always pay attention and look for opportunity. He was always slated to take over the business, but other factors intervened in what had previously been a good and settled life.

Bouts of aggression and depression started to show themselves from time to time, from when he was 16. He concealed them from his parents as much as he could, along with frightening hallucinations that seemed to occur almost at random. Walls sometimes bled, streets seemed to warp, and solid and definable reality felt like a thin sheet over something hideous and vast. The experiences would only get worse, the young man's life falling into chaos as he turned to drugs and street gangs, drawing away from his horrified parents and into a world that he created around himself. However he acted, in truth the aim was to hold his fears at bay, and the mix of drugs and violent activities certainly did that for a time.

All things end, however, and after his twentieth birthday a mugging got out of hand, Tobias shooting and killing someone on a darkened street.

It was at that point that reality utterly snapped.

The Change descended, the newborn Irraka fleeing into the deepest, darkest corners of the city he could find, hiding both from threats he couldn't grasp, and the realization of what he was becoming. He huddled in an alley, naked and weeping when it was done, and despite his rebirth as an Uratha, at the lowest point of his life.

The Bricklayers found him there, a small pack drawn to the newly blooded pup. He was lucky there, he found sympathetic ears, and those who understood what he'd been through. Several months with them and Tobias had found a moral center again, and a resolve to never again lose control of his own life. That drive to better himself, every single day, is what drove him to join the Iminir as one of the Storm Lords and later, to set out for Georgia when news of the mysterious disaster came north.

On arriving, he set out to form a small company dealing in collecting and selling scrap metal, charging a small fee to take it away and another fee to sell it onwards to scrapyards and others, the Storm Lord set on gaining a foothold in the area, with the longer term goal of seeing some sort of order re-established.

Character sheet: Sheet: Tobias Clemming