# Cassandra Crane

## Identity

- **Player:** crystal
- **Breed:** Homid
- **Auspice:** Theurge
- **Tribe:** Silent Strider
- **Concept:** Spiritualist
- **Rank:** 1
- **Nature:** Visionary
- **Demeanor:** Caregiver

## Attributes

| Physical | | Social | | Mental | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strength | ●●○○○ 2 | Charisma | ●●●○○ 3 | Perception | ●●●○○ 3 |
| Dexterity | ●●○○○ 2 | Manipulation | ●●●●○ 4 | Intelligence | ●●●○○ 3 |
| Stamina | ●●○○○ 2 | Appearance | ●●●●○ 4 | Wits | ●●○○○ 2 |

Specialties:

- Appearence: Blend in
- Manipulation: Quick Lies

## Abilities

### Talents

- **Alertness** ●●●○○ 3
- **Athletics** ●○○○○ 1
- **Brawl** ●●○○○ 2
- **Empathy** ●●●○○ 3
- **Primal Urge** ●●○○○ 2
- **Streetwise** ●○○○○ 1
- **Subterfuge** ●○○○○ 1

### Skills

- **Drive** ●○○○○ 1
- **Etiquette** ●○○○○ 1
- **Larceny** ●○○○○ 1
- **Melee** ●○○○○ 1
- **Stealth** ●●●○○ 3
- **Survival** ●●○○○ 2

### Knowledges

- **Enigmas** ●○○○○ 1
- **Investigation** ●○○○○ 1
- **Occult** ●○○○○ 1
- **Rituals** ●●●●○ 4

Specialties:

- Rituals: Scrying rituals

## Backgrounds

- **Ancestors** ●●●○○ 3
- **Kinfolk** ●○○○○ 1
- **Pure Breed** ●●○○○ 2
- **Resources** ●●○○○ 2

## Background Details

### Ancestors

- Melissa: Her grandmother from her father's side, Silent strider Philodox.

### Kinfolk

- Jeremy Ryners responsible for the medical weed dispensary. Age 28, punctual and trustworthy.

## Gifts

### Breed

- Persuasion (Level 1)

### Auspice

- Spirit Speech (Level 1)
- Mother's Touch (Level 1)

### Tribe

- Hush (Level 1)

## Rites

- Rite of Dedication
- Rite of Binding
- Rite of Commune with Spirits
- Rite of Spirit Binding

## Advantages

| Trait | Permanent | Temporary |
|---|---|---|
| Glory | 1 | 2 |
| Honor | 1 | 1 |
| Wisdom | 3 | 0 |
| Rage | 4 | 4 |
| Gnosis | 6 | 1 |
| Willpower | 7 | 3 |

## Status

- **Health:** `OOOOOOO` (O unhurt, / bashing, X lethal, * aggravated)
- **Experience:** 5 total, 0 spent, 5 unspent

## Merits and Flaws

- Merit: **Medium** (Supernatural) (2 pt)

## Possessions

### Carried

- sunwarden x1

## Appearance

- **Age:** 25
- **Sex:** Female
- **Race:** White
- **Hair:** Long, Brown
- **Eyes:** Blue

## History

Cassandra Crane is a Silent Strider Theurge who walks the line between the living, the dead, and the dreaming, carrying the weight of ancestral whispers wherever she goes.
Born into a wandering Strider bloodline, she learned early that some truths are never written down—only carried, sung, or buried, and her exile from her kin came after uncovering a long-hidden betrayal involving a corrupted spirit bound generations ago.
Her First Change was accompanied by voices of the dead speaking through scent, smoke, and shadow, marking her clearly as spirit-touched and destined for the Theurge’s path.
Cassandra now owns Moonpath Botanicals, a legal cannabis dispensary on the edge of town near a highway—perfect for travelers, drifters, and those unknowingly seeking spiritual relief.
To the public, she is a calm, introspective business owner focused on wellness and education; in truth, the dispensary functions as a quiet spiritual crossroads where the Gauntlet thins and spirits of rest, dreams, and healing gather.
Cassandra treats cannabis not as a product but as a living ally, selecting strains based on lunar cycles, emotional resonance, and spirit compatibility rather than potency or profit.
Certain private blends are crafted specifically for Garou rites, meditation, ancestor communion, and spirit negotiation, infused with whispered prayers and subtle bindings.
The dispensary’s back room is warded and doubles as a ritual space, decorated with “art” that is actually a tapestry of Strider symbols, desert imagery, and lunar sigils disguised for human eyes.
She maintains strong relationships with plant spirits, dream-entities, and lost ancestors, though restless ghosts are often drawn to her presence, lingering where the air is calm and the smoke carries memory.
Within her sept and pack, Cassandra serves as an interpreter of omens, a speaker for the dead, and a trusted keeper of secrets, often tasked with carrying messages or undertaking long spirit journeys between distant Garou communities.
She quietly despises corporate cannabis interests, especially those with Pentex ties, and suspects at least one nearby agribusiness of spiritual corruption and ecological sabotage.
Cassandra’s empathy and soft-spoken nature make her easy to underestimate, but during rites her authority is unmistakable, her voice steady as the desert wind and just as unforgiving.
Though she rarely speaks of her exile, the spirits have begun pressing her to confront the truth she uncovered—suggesting that what was once buried may soon demand judgment.