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Red Wolf (o)

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Red Wolf (gh)

Fighting: 

Rm

Agility: 

In

Strength: 

Rm

Endurance: 

In

Reason: 

Gd

Intuition: 

Mn

Psyche: 

Rm

Health: 

140

Karma: 

115

Resources: 

Ty

Popularity: 

5

Real Name:  William Talltrees
Aliases: Thomas Thunderhead
Occupation: Former soldier, construction worker, now professional adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: U.S. citizen with no criminal record
Sex:  Male
Place of Birth: Wolf Point, Montana
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Thomas (father, deceased), Rebecca (mother, deceased), William (uncle)
Base of Operations: American Southwest
Group Affiliations: Rangers
Known Powers:
Enhanced Senses: Red Wolf has enhanced sight hearing and smell all at Monstrous rank.
Tracking: Monstrous ability to track.
Weapons:
Red Wolf carries two weapons. The first is six-foot-long wooden coup-stick (fighting staff)
that can be used as a bludgeon or as a javelin to cause 10 points of blunt damage and be thrown u[ to 3 areas. The second weapon is a flint edged tomahawk that can inflict 10 points of Edged damage or 16 points of Blunt damage. Both items have Remarkable Material Strength.
Animals:
Red Wolf has a trained wolf, Lobo, with the following statistics:

F

A

S

E

R

I

P

Ex

Gd

Gd

Gd

Fe

Fe

Ty

His can bite, causing Good edged damage.
Lobo is trained to follow Red Wolf's verbal commands, and can track with Excellent ability.


Talents:
Red Wolf has Wrestling, Thrown Weapons , and Acrobatics. He has had military training and can track at Excellent rank.
Contacts:
Rangers, Avengers, Dr. Strange, Black Crow.
Role-Playing Notes:
Red Wolf is a stern, no-nonsense type of superhero. In a fight, he prefers to get the job done as quickly as efficiently as possible, with no wisecracks or extra remarks. Red Wolf takes his duty as Owayodata’s agent on Earth very seriously he tries to act as a link between the old Indian ways and the modern world.
History:
Among the Cheyenne Indians of the American Plains is the widespread belief in Owayodata, the Wolf-Spirit. This spirit, one of the Native American gods, is an entity on the order of the Asgardians or Olympians. He generally chooses to imbue his essence and attributes within a human host, rather than to physically materialize on the earthly plane. Within the bloodline of a certain Cheyenne family, Owayodata has often chosen to manifest himself, creating a quasisuperhuman champion of the people called the Red Wolf. How long the Wolf-Spirit has been manifesting himself in this way is not known, nor why he has chosen this particular bloodline.

The first Red Wolf was said to have tamed the first horse and driven his people’s enemies, such as the Sioux, from the plains so that the Cheyenne would have a land of their own. The first Red Wolf about whom there are historical details is the young full-blooded Cheyenne who was raised by a kindly white couple after his tribesmen were massacred by the U.S. Calvary. The couple named him Johnny Wakeley.

Wakeley became an orphan again when Indians slaughtered his foster parents. Pursued by renegade members of his own tribe, Wakeley stumbled into a spot where the ceremonial garb of the Red Wolf was buried. There, he was visited by the spirit of Owayodata. Bidden to don the ceremonial garb and given the totem of power, the coup-stick, Wakeley became the latest incarnation of the Red Wolf. A wolf, Lobo, joined him at the burial place. As the Red Wolf, Wakeley used the great skills and prowess that he had acquired from Owayodata to try to bring peace between the white and red peoples. How he eventually died has not yet been recorded.

In the latter half of the 20th century, another man assumed the mantle of the Red Wolf. Will Talltrees, son of Thomas Talltrees, a Cheyenne tribal leader, grew up on a reservation hearing tales of the Red Wolf from the spiritual leaders of the tribe. Once he reached adulthood, Talltrees left to enlist in the U.S. Army. During his time in the Army, he allowed his fellow soldiers to destroy a village in Vietnam and let a young man fall to his death from a helicopter.

After serving his time, he became a construction worker in New York City. Returning home, Tailtrees witnessed his father being intimidated into selling his property by a corrupt businessman, Cornelius van Lunt. That night, Talltrees became the sole survivor of the massacre of his family at the hands of Lunt’s henchmen. Swearing vengeance, Talltrees donned the ceremonial garb of the Red Wplf kept by his tribe’s spiritual leaders; he then performed the ritual dance he had witnessed as a youth. He was visited by Owayodata and imbued with the god’s spiritual legacy.

Talltrees soon found a wolf cub that he named Lobo and trained to be his companion, as in the legends of the previous Red Wolves. Stalking van Lunt back to New York, Red Wolf exacted vengeance from him with the aid of the Avengers. Upon his return to the southwest, he began a career as a masked vigilante and champion of freedom.

Red Wolf was one of the heroes of the American Southwest who responded to a distress call from Rick Jones to rescue the Hulk from the Corrupter. He remained with the loosely organized group that became known as the Rangers. The Rangers were eventually pitted against the West Coast Avengers by a demon in Shooting Star’s form. With the disappearance of the real Shooting Star and Firebird’s departure, the Rangers disbanded.

William Talltrees faced his past in the desert and was almost found wanting. The boy who fell from the helicopter came back as a character called the Bengal to avenge his family’s death against Talltrees. Lobo was killed in the fight and Red Wolf was critically injured. Owayodata visited Talltrees as the doctors operated on him and forced the hero to confront and conquer his guilt. The Wolf Spirit then granted him enhanced powers and abilities to aid him in his fight for justice.

While meditating in the wilderness, Red Wolf heard gunshots and investigated. He found joyriders having target practice with a mother wolf and her cubs. He stopped the men, but stayed his hand from further violence as he picked up the only surviving cub. He has started training this cub to become the new Lobo.

Recently, Red Wolf teamed with Black Crow and Doctor Strange to stop three angry members of the Indian pantheon of gods from exacting vengeance on the white man for centuries of oppression and cruelty. The three rogue gods and all the vengeful spirits of wrongfully-slain Native Americans were finally persuaded that they could not mold the modern world into their image of the past, so they gave up.

This encounter bolstered Red Wolf’s desire to forge a new bond between the Indian nations and the modern world.