The Bloody '69

• Bloody 69
• The Soul-Eater; Rebound in Birmingham
• The Harvester; Cultivator of the Slain
• The Breathstealer; Slithergadee from the Sea
• The Soul-Eater; Devourer of the Self

Breathstealer; the Slithergadee

“The slithergadee has crawled out of the sea.
He may catch all the others, but he won't catch me!
No you won't catch me, old slithergadee,
You may catch all the others but you wo…”

Summery of the characters life, deeds, personality and so on, this should be ideally a single paragraph and no more than three – this is a snapshot of a character whose history is recorded through oral tradition rather than written word so the details will vary from place to place but the core will remain.

In 1969 3 great spirits came to the UK and brought pain and terror with them – these were the Idigam. This is the tale of one of these three – the one known as Slithergadee by some and by Breathstealer by others. No-one is certain from where the name came, nor who first started to use it but the Fisher King, a mighty Ithaeur from London, breathed power into that name when the spirit was driven from the land. The Slithergadee was said to have came from the sea, tricky to see as it seemed to exist almost in Twilight no matter which side of the Gauntlet it glided. What is known is that many of those who fought it, or were victim to it, had their breath stolen from them. The battles raged on and off for weeks before the Slithergadee was driven into the sea near to Sheerness, where it was bound into the nearest thing to hand – the wreak of the Montgomery. There is a memorial to the banishment of this foul spirit on the South Coast said to be on the spot where the Sword of the Winter Kings was plunged into the earth, completing the binding.

STORY

This is the most important story of the character, or at least the bare outline of it. This should be something which allows players to gather the basic outline of the tale allowing it to be remembered and told IC, that details will be different from telling to telling does not matter these tales are remembered and told in the oral tradition and often the pure truth is simply not known.

• Hero/Villain: Slithergadee is the villain, the Tribes of the Moon and their spirit allies are the heroes.
• Setting: Battles raged across the Southern part of England, along the coast and eventually ended up being driven into the sea in the Hisil near Sheerness.
• Events: After a weeks of a strange violence where individuals or groups attacked the mist-like Breathstealer only to be largely ignored as it took the very breath from their lungs it was lured into the ocean, where its powers seemed contained, and was bound into the wreak of a WW2 transport ship – the Montgomery – by the most powerful and knowledgeable Ithaeurs of Britain, who were led by the Fisher King. There is a memorial to the banishment of this foul spirit on the South Coast said to be on the spot where the Sword of the Winter Kings was plunged into the earth, completing the binding.
• Moral: Sometimes violence is not the best solution, sometimes a foe cannot be slain, merely defeated.

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