Luciano Merlo

Looks
Hishu. While preferring to wear his habit, Luke can be seen in drab coloured vasual clothing as well. But wether or not the rahu is in either outfit, he has few distinct features that make him quite curious. Over his left eye, Luke has a dark splot of a birthmark that reaches to hs ear. It is fairly hard to see in low light. But for that, his micthmatched eyes are perfect. His left one is green and his right one is brown. One must wonder what sort of strange genetic mix he comes from.

By his build, Luke is pretty average, not too thin and not too fat. His long hair is often in a ponytail.

Urhan Luke is an italian wolf, a subspecies of the Gray Wolf that's coat is more mottled than found in colder enviroments. Luke has a white and black facial mask, the white of his face bleeding down to his stomach. The wolf has a black saddle that bleds into a mess of browns and grays on his back. Luke's fur is very long around his neck, cheeks and his tail. Otherwise it is rather short.

Background
Some uratha just have it easy, they change, their auspice is all ready set in stone in their personality. They join a trbe they feel fits them. Life is easy...

And Luciano, also known as simply Luke by his friends, was not one of these. Highly religious boy from an early age, and a lucky break with being asexual, life of a priest was clearly set for him. However, Luke wasn't really into much competition at all, and he found himself more driven to a monastic life. That life fit him and soon he was a member of a franciscan order in italy. It was a nice and calm life, though cycle of moon had an weird effect on him. Some of his brothers called him moon mad as a joke.

How right they were, as Luke's twentieth third birthday neared, the young man's mind was more and more taken by the moon. Some nights he could not look at the sky at all. He felt like a beast caged, nervous and anxious. And it just kept making things worse for him, scaring his brothers and making him withrawn.

Until, on a night of a full moon, it all came crashing down. Was it the car? Was it the quip from that damn punk? Was it the scared look of his brothers? Luke was not sure, but he killed all of them. He killed them, and he ran into the wilds.

It took weeks for the local People to return the poor wolf to his nerves, and even then, hearing his auspice and his duty made him freak out. He was a Rahu, a warrior, when all the things he was taught told him that it was wrong. But, with the mental strenght gained from his monastic life, Luke managed to steel himself and accept his duty. No matter how much it pained him.

Of course, finding a tribe was another matter entirely, none of the tribes fit his faith. Some even mocked it outright, and Luke had to defend his faith for a long time. Then a drifting member of Bone Shadows and Lodge of Savior came to that lonely Firenze town. In that hermit, Luke found his mentor and example. Of course, joining both a lodge AND a tribe was hard. Luke spent ages reading up on the spirituality, demonology and such subjects to understand the local Hisil.

First, there was the entry to his tribe, Luke was thrown into the hisil and made to face 'demons' of his past head on. The rahu both defeated and soothed the ghosts of his fallen brothers, and killed the resulting fear spirits. Coming out the hisil bloody, luke was not given much breathing room before he was given the rites to join his lodge.

And like before, as much as Luke hated it, his visions of the future were focused on killing maeljin allies. And so he did.

This killing had made the poor Bone Shadow queasy, even if he was now member of both a tribe and a lodge. He needed to find some space, and the news of the blizzard in North Georgia made him interested. Especially as the news from the people suggested there were no uratha around. Curious, and Luke left.

In North Georgia, the young rahu sought to join another monastery, and is currently hoping to find peace between his Warriors status, his religion and his tribe.

Character Sheet
Sheet:Luciano Merlo