The Hounds
of
Hell
THE PAST ALPHAS OF THE HOUNDS OF HELL:
The Hounds of Hell went through many changes through their path and these are well documented, however, listed below are the men and women who took up the tough and terrible job of being their Alpha through the many battles and bloodshed the Garou and Kinfolk faced with the darkening world around them.
Each of these Garou have faced the horror of the Wyrm and every single one of them came away changed from being in the position. After all being a Hound of Hell is heavy going enough, to then be the Alpha and the leader of such a group is only for the hardest of Gaians.
John Killdare:
The Founding Father.
John Killdare, known as 'I Shit You Not', 'Two Strike', 'Patriarchal Honor'and 'The Grey Ghost' an Athro Philodox, returned to the Get of Fenris from his time within the Bonegnawer Tribe. John never really left the position of Alpha during his years on the roads with the MC of his original creation. The old pack of his youth spread to gather
members into the Hounds, John the Head of the originals, riding
out from Modesto California. John was a hard man with a heart
that very regularly would get him in trouble, to big and golden for
the world most of the time.
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Lovingly known as 'Pops' or even 'Dad' to so many of the hounds that he adopted as his 'kids' referring to them freely as 'kiddo' and embracing them deeply into the family. Once they became one of John's, they never left, finding themselves quickly in love with the 'old man' and yet some would still quake in fear of the Philodox when punishments came to pass or were fought out in the camp. A strange and yet natural balance that John found easily with his people.
Commonly thought of as the most respected of the Alphas the Hounds of Hell had known. He had bled, fought, cried and loved with each of the members he was able to get close to. Only finding himself having issues when it came to betrayal and forgiveness that John seemed to give too easily to those who did not deserve it.
John has been back in the Alpha's chair for the Hounds of Hell after a reappearence after some 4 years being missing or unknown by the rest of the Hounds. Having sent out the call for all the Hounds to gather in Nevada, he has taken to the road once again. This time however his howls have turned to war, after the call for the deaths of every Hunter in the Garou Nation. An order he defies from King Albrecht himself. However now he has handed on the position to his daughter, Eva Killdare to guard and watch over the Hounds as she joins the ranks of the Shifters.
Fredrick Mahn:
The Warrior Alpha.
Fredrick Mahn, known as Hunts the Bane, Grimmsonurr, Warsmith,
Slayer of the Fallen Legend, Adren Ahroun of the Get of Fenris.
Though Fredrick was not a long term Alpha, he took over
from the Founding Alpha, John Killdare for a time as he watched the Hounds of Hell fall to desire rather than glory and could no longer bare the way the Sept were using John's forgiving nature for their own means.
Fredrick was a hard man from a criminal background who had little idea just how important his bloodline truly was to his vast and ferocious tribe. It was during and near his time as Alpha that he was to discover just how close and meaningful his family name truly was and would become.
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Marrying John's adopted daughter, Eva, he had as much of a vibrant and sometimes wholly difficult relationship with her that he did with the rest of the sept he wished to manage. Faced with a mutiny of the Sept members, including having his own wife pull away his authority it was a hard hit for the Ahroun who would never take up the position again, saying that the Alphaship was not to his taste whatsoever.
Fred however managed a successful career as a powerful and cautious Head Warder, also as a mighty Wyrmfoe who always had the matters of the Sept and it's members true to his heart despite how many of them would attempt to be free of his controlling nature.
Fredrick was a man of many skills, having been the most successful in his positions as Wyrmfoe and Warder, he also had a passion and talent that he turned to the Tannery and Forge, creating much of the needed armor and weaponry on the sept and giving way to many of the Sept ever having made it home from their trials.
Imogen Ranarson:
The Spiritual Jarl.
Jarl Imogen Ranarson, known as Bloodied Star Claw, Fenrir's
Stormcrow, Rider of the Frozen Wastes, Skyrender, Claims the
Screaming Souls, Theurge/Godi of the Get of Fenris.
Imogen became Alpha during further difficulty that the Hounds
faced, in confusion after the disappearence of the Founding Alpha,
John Killdare and the mutiny that Fredrick, a man she claimed as
her own blood brother, had faced.
Married herself and already a mother to twin boys, she grew to her
position without challenge but amidst jeers and unrest, some of
the Sept even trying to put her down for being a female Alpha to
the MC and the Sept as one. However even during this she quickly
became one of the most successful of the Hounds Alphas. Working
with an iron fist inside a velvet glove for her sept members.
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life once more progressing, however life took a heavy turn for the Jarl as she found her beloved husband had been unfaithful.
Unfortunately the then pregnant Godi raged narrowly missing killing two of her sept members in a brawl that was never forgotten,
further more miscarrying a daughter which held a heavy price for the Jarl who would find herself unmarried and alone in many aspects of every day life on the Sept. However she did continue to serve the hounds of hell as their Alpha until she vanished and was presumed dead, only to be found in a Hive, tortured and scarred many months later.
Imogen never gave up helping the Hounds of Hell even after the death of her unfaithful husband and the challenging relationships she had with many of the Sept members. Even to this day she remains an aid to the group with every resource she can muster. Being claimed as Fredrick Mahn's sister, the two have shared the upbringing of his young daughter, Kara Eir. As well as the protection of Fredrick's young blood sister, Sarah.
Imogen is known to have finally married again to a Black Fury Huntress, named Jean Vemoda. The two have shared years together happily, but with the orders from King Albrecht, Imogen has sent Jean back out onto the road and away from the Northgardian Fortress she now holds as Alpha, for Jean's safety.
Lucas Killdare:
The Archetect Son.
Lucas Killdare, known as 'You Fucking What!?', Jotunn Heart,
Stormcrow, once known as Jarl of Isensol, Ahroun/Modi of the Get
of Fenris, once of the Bonegnawer Tribe.
Lucas Killdare was one of the longest running Alphas of the
Hounds of Hell but also the MC. The two becoming
dangerously separated for a time. The young Ahroun followed
his father's footsteps with returning to the tribe of his name
and making sure he fought with everything he had in order
to prove himself a vibrant and worthy man of the Fenrir.
Lucas had many hardships to overcome with his terms as Alpha,
as there were multiple times that the Ahroun took up the challenge
in order to provide the next steps to the wandering Sept and MC. He
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took over from Fredrick and Imogen first off. Leading the group in the old way they had been more accustomed to but quickly finding himself having to grow harder like his Fenrir companions in order to find the right balance needed by the Hounds of Hell.
Matters of the Sept and MC became united under Lucas and the man seemed to be pulling a good job until some in the sept found him to not finish what he started or to speak of things that many felt were never completed. But as with most of the history of the Hounds, Lucas found himself quickly firefighting rather than progressing.
Lucas led them to multiple victory on the Sept and as such is known as a successful and productive Alpha all the same, dealing with not only matters of the Sept but also trying to hold together his fiery and often vastly difficult family who would pick whether they would help or hinder the Ahroun in his daily battle for the good the Hounds needed to find.
However the end of his Alphaship came at the hands of Equilibrium, a Glasswalker Philodox and father to the would-be mother of two of Lucas's children, Rachel, finding the young man to have fallen to the pressures and sorrow of his position and the darkening world around the Hounds who were losing allies and friends the world over.
Robert Linstead:
The Redeeming Doctor.
Doctor Robert Linstead, known as Equilibrium, Elder Philodox of the
Glasswalker Tribe.
Very little was known about Equilibrium, affectionately termed as
'EQ' by those of the Sept and those close to him. It was evident from
the beginning that he had a strained relationship with the founding
Alpha, John Killdare, but nether of the older Garou would speak of
what truly was the issue between them.
However much later the truth came to shine as it so often does
that EQ had infact in his youth been one of the Fenrir, a powerful
Ahroun named Helm Hranison Brynnasdawn. One of the original
pack to John Killdare in his early days within the Fenrir tribe.
However Helm, later known as Robert had fallen from grace in a
terrible standing due his time spent fighting in hives that had begun
to claim his very soul.
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He did however manage to bring himself back up to the surface and redeem huge matters by basically allowing his past self to
die and instead became one of the most influencial and powerful Garou of the Nation within North America and the protectorates. Dealing first hand with many of the royal families and being a well needed and talented doctor to the Nation.
This came into heavy play as EQ watched the man who was the father to his grandchildren, Lucas Killdare begin to be consumed with the darkness around the hounds. EQ could do nothing else but basically interject, taking the position
of Alpha and defending the Sept when all other hope at one stage seemed to be lost.
Where EQ was no where near a long running Alpha, his term began a series of events that would bring the Hounds of Hell to at least temporary safety amonst the wars and battles even against the spirit realms that the group found themselves in. EQ however could not stay as Alpha though he was very quickly loved by the sept due to his duties elsewhere at Charter's Hill Hospital and as such he used every part of his Auspice to deem a man worthy of the position and passed his title to the Silver Fang, Amadeaus Torvold.
Amadeaus Torvold:
The Guardian Alpha
Amadeaus Torvold, known as Lost Claw and The Guardian
of Hope, Fostern Ragabash of the Silver Fangs.
Amadeaus was quickly placed into the shoes of giants when he
became a member of the Sept. Appointed as Alpha for being one of the most responsible members of the Sept, by Equilibrium, an Elder, Amadeaus could barely ignore.
Amadeaus or 'Deaus' as he was affectionately known, went from
being a quiet presence on the sept to suddenly finding himself thrown into the firing line as the world around him blasted with multiple attacks and the blood of the sept starting to run freely, even from the children of the sept.
He face grueling and terrible circumstances as he desperately tried to find his footing in the intimidating position he found himself in.
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An older garou and one of many years experience, Deaus used all he could in order to bring the Hounds out of horrific surroundings,doing so, though with difficulty and at a heavy price for those he led. Deaus soon found himself grounded however, claiming a kinfolk, holding the woman he had grown to love, Rachel Linstead, Equilibrium's daughter. However due to the unfortunate events surrounding the claim on Rachel, Deaus found himself at loggerheads with the past Alpha, Lucas Killdare.
MC and Sept had again become separated and this caused massive rift in the Hounds as Deaus led the Sept where Lucas refused to ever stand down as President of the MC. No matter how the Silver Fang tried, he could not find equal ground with the Fenrir and quickly Deaus found himself firefighting against the wildness of the MC that was pulling the Sept into war after war.
Deaus however was an inspirational Alpha and managed to achieve a lot in his time, making sure that the Sept was as organized as it possibly could be, giving the Hounds some poorly needed structure and well being.
Brendon MacFarlene:
The Rockstar on the Road
Brendon MacFarlene, known as 'Thunder Scream', 'The Shattered Spiral' and 'Storm Eye' Galliard of the Shadowlords.
Brendon, or 'Bren' as he is affectionately known to the Hounds, has been one of the success stories of the Long Road. However, success story may not be a term that can be used for much more than his professional life as a Garou.
Brendon came to the Hounds as a Child of Gaia kinfolk, a wandering musician with massive fame on the rock scene in the USA. He however has an encounter with a Fianna named Callum, that would change him forever as he experienced his first shift.
Bren's turbulant times were only beginning, getting involved with a Fenrir kinfolk named Raine Davis whom he would claim as his own. However the same could not be said for her affections. Driving the
Shadowlord to near insanity as she worked her way to others on the Sept. Even setting up 3 Shadowlords to move into killing Brendon.
Brendon has suffered with the nightmarish circumstance on his mind
ever since. Raine had been pregnant with a child Bren has thought was his own when she was caught in action, handing over information to a twisted Shadowlord known as Gabriel Dragomir, in order to have Bren in a position of vunerability for his demise. She shot herself in the head before the camp when they found her out. The child urgently removed from her lifeless corpse. Bren has never really recovered. However he did continue to have another family with another Shadowlord, a kin named Amaris Santiago who he would later divorce and leave in Nightsky after a thundery relationship. Without his family, he found life on the road that bit harder, most of his other brothers had all had their trails. But when Bren came to be the Alpha of the Hounds, he was set with a twisted and angry bunch of Garou Bikers who were out for blood.
Brendon indulged this want and the hatred burning in their bodies as he lead the Hounds into war once again. Bren's time as Alpha did not end in disaster but after the disappearence of John Killdare, a man he knows as a father figure, he commissioned the deconstruction of the Hounds until they would once again be called into battle at the name of their Founding Father.
Bren returned to his home in Houston, TX. Where he and his companion, a life long friend known as Annie, record music in their multi million dollar recording Studio. Brendon is still an actively recording Rock Musician. He has found fame and the celebrity life occassionally hard to handle. But thankfully, after having some time away from the life on the road, he has returned to his happier state and seems to once again have his rage and bloodlusts back under control.
Eva Killdare:
The Biker Mother.
Eva has been through the entire road with the Hounds of Hell and during their times and trails she has evoled and adapted. Having reached the end of the road as a Hunter, and during some massively invasive spiritual intervention, Eva became a shifter. Not a Garou but more to the side of the shifting Bears.
Now a Gurahl and with the knowledge she has gained as a major player of the Hounds past, she is well equipped to start the long task of bringing the Hounds back from the brink of disbandening.
She has noted the time with her Alphaship as a time of healing. A time to band together and get to the great war that is approaching on the horizon. She has faced Lilith a number of times, having barely escaped with her life on a number of occassions.
Eva is unsual in the fact that whilst she is no Adren or Athro, those that have such standing are willing to follow her. Her strength is undenyable as a Gurahl but it is her mental and spiritual strength is what attracts others to her ways and the life on the road. She might well be the answer to what has been wrong with the Hounds for so long. But how long can she hold everyone together when they seem to ready to rip themselves apart. Time will yeild the answers if nothing else will.