Tribe: Children of Gaia
Breed: Homid
Auspice: Theurge
Rank: 5

Gifts:
(1) Persuasion, Spirit Speech, Mother's Touch;
(2) Calm, Sight From the Beyond;
(3) Dazzle, Pulse of the Invisible, Spirit Friend;
(4) Serenity, Spirit Ward, Ultimate Argument of Logic;
(5) The Living Wood

Rites:
(Accord) Rite of Cleansing;
(Caern) Rite of Caern Building, Rite of the Opened Bridge;
(Mystic) Rite of Binding, Rite of Talsiman Dedication,
Rite of Spirit Awakening, Rite of Summoning,
Rite of the Fetish

Fetishes:
Spirit Tracer, Sanctuary Chimes,
Sacred Soil (This is earth that was carefully tended
and purified before it was removed from its Umbral
Glen. When placed carefully into a plot on the ground,
it sprouts any seed, instantly growing the plant or tree
by several year's depending on how carefully the ritual is followed.
 
Description:
    Pearl is a white-gold wolf with a gentle-sloping
muzzle and a graceful walk. In Homid form, she is a middle-
aged, mixed-race woman with long, lightly curled, pale-
brown hair. She wears sensible clothes. She has a serene,
youthful face that radiates concern.
 
BIO:
    The ruler of New York's Children of Gaia is the wise shaman
Pearl of the River, who presides from the Sept of the Hand of Gaia.
She listens carefully to the council of her followers and institutes
policies enforced by True Silverheels.
Because of this unique co-leadership arrangement, emissaries from other
tribes often believe that True is the real leader and Pearl his advisor.
 
    Pearl is faced with the challenge of trying to unify 12
tribes that often want to tear each other to bits. She seeks
to focus their energies in one direction: to help and heal,
not only other Garou but mankind and the living world.
At times she fears she will not be able to accomplish even the
first step in this plan and despairs for the tremendous power
squandered by Garou in reckless in-fighting and shortsighted vanity.
Yet she perseveres and searches for a clear purpose to unify her people.

    In the polygamous society that New York's Children of
Gaia have created, Pearl has taken several Kinfolk as lovers
and has continued her own line of Kinfolk through several
litters.

    As the War of the Apocalypse escalates, Pearl must
reconsider her position as leader of her tribe.
Already perceived as an advisor, other tribes probably won't
acknowledge her as the true facilitator of a Garou union.
To save face with the other tribes, she may have to step down
and allow True Silverheels to assume total authority,
whether as a willing puppet or genuine tribal leader.
Can such a reversal of tradition be accomplished without dis-
ruption, or will any jealousy or bitterness become the soil in
which the Wyrm can plant its seed! The fate of New York's
Children of Gaia and perhaps all of its Garou would hang in
the balance.