Shanna Stands-Against-the-Wind-Weathers-the Storm Thompson

My name is Shana Stands-against-the-wind Weathers-the-storm Thompson. I know it's a mouthfull, you can call me any part of that you want, really. I am a Child of Gaia Ahroun and no, that is not a contraiction in terms.

I had a fairly normal childhood. My father abused my mother and sometimes me, but other than that all was good. Until my father lost his job. Things then turned ugly. He slowly became more sullen an angry. One day he broke an starte beating on my mother, worse than ever before. I was hiding in a corner, trying not to bring his wrath upon myself. He left my mother in a heap in the corner and came looking for me. My hiding spot wasn't that great. After he found me, I can remember him hitting me twice, before my world erupted into white rage. I don't remember anything more . . . until laying out in the woods, a woman watching over me. She explained the basics to me and took me to the closest Child of Gaia cearn. I never learned her name an I never looked back.

Life on the Children of Gaia cearn was nice. I went through my right of passage there and became Stands-Against-the-Wind. If you want to hear that whole story, come an ask me sometime. I was there for almost a year before the place was attacked by the Get of Fenris. They said we could not fight and were noth worthy to live. Well, we certainly fought that day. I, being one of the younger Garou, was sent through a moon bridge to another cearn. All who stayed to defend the cearn were killed. I was again without a home.

I decided to leave the cearn we had been sent to and wander around on my own for awhile. Two years or so passed in a blur, nothing really standing out or coming into focus. That is until I decided that I was ready to challenge for Adren. I went to the closest cearn, that being this one here, in Bellingham. I walked onto the cearn and was met by Grendle the Get of Fenris warder. I was awed by him. I should have hated him, but I could not. He was so . . . amazing, that I decided that if I couln't beat my enemy, I would train with him. It took me a log time to convince him that I could take it. After I did, he agreed to send me to the local Get of Fenris cearn to train.

Oh, yeah, my Adren challenge. Well, there was only one other Adren Arhoun on the cearn. It was my first encounter with SnowBlind, though certainly not my last. In short, he beat me silly and when I admited defeat he congratulated me on becoming an Adren. Admitedly, I was confused but I got better.

I went to train on the Get cearn. They weren't overly freindly to start with. After being there for a month or so, I received a spiritual messanger from Fenris... Actually, it was Fenris.. but not really, you get the idea? I was told by this messenger, Grendle had gone onto Valhalla and he wanted me to have his klaive. After that the Get were considerable more friendly.. for all that they are Get and they aren't all that friendly to begin with.

So, after my three months of intense training with the Get, I came back to the Bellingham caern. Looking around, I decided, at the same time as several others, that leadership needed to arise here. What they had was currently in disarray. My new found friend, Truth Sniffer, a Silver Fang lupus, and took positions in the caern. I became Warder and he through time became Alpha. And things were good... For a little bit.

Then the war started. Don't ask which one, you damn well know which one. We decided to be nuetral in it all. Or, well, I decided and made everyone follow me. At that point there was no alpha, so I was next best thing. And we stayed as nuetral as anyone can, even through several attacks on the cearn.

And through time, it was time for me to challenge for Athro. And look, what a surprise, Snowblind was the only person for me to challenge.

Through time I put together the peace talks to end the war between the tribes, which ended with peace in the NorthWest, but with the cost of Gaia's Promise's life. I lost my best friend, True-Silver-Heals when he did the bravest thing I have ever seen a Garou do. He stood up to the Shadow Lord and Red Talons *alone* when they raided Anchorage. I aranged the current peace treaty between all of the shifting breeds and the Faerie folk.

My curent quest is to help SnowBlind find the Sacred Hoop and fix it, so that we may have a chance of surviving the trying times that are to come.