Alek Kuchinskaya

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Fire-Touched Alpha (Lodge of Fevered Light, Cult of Bones)

Alek is Stan's brother and Maia's aunt.

Description

Hishu

A stocky Caucasian woman in her late 50s with steel grey hair in a tight bun, pale skin, and hazel eyes. She wears black canvas work pants, dark neutral-colored shirts, and heavy boots. The only piece of jewelry she wears is a wolf tooth on a thin leather thong (Cult Talisman). She generally carries a battered leather satchel containing her other fetishes and the tools of her profession. When the weather is poor, she wears a black leather trenchcoat and matching fedora. She smells of chemicals and ink.

Urhan

A steel grey wolf with black around her muzzle and the tip of her tail.

Storytelling Hints

Alek is a focused, dedicated woman who comes off as cold and hard. She is actually a woman of deep faith who keeps her emotions hidden to avoid being taken advantage of, a relic of her difficult Pure upbringing. She doesn't spare energy hating the Forsaken or holding humanity in disdain. Her life is spent trying to solve problems and her main vice is her intellectual vanity.

Stats

• Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 4
• Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3
• Social Attributes: Presence 3*, Manipulation 2, Composure 4
• Mental Skills: Academics 1, Computer 1, Investigation (Crime Scenes) 3, Medicine 2, Occult (Father Wolf) 4, Science (Forensics) 4.
• Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 3, Drive 1, Larceny 1, Stealth 2, Survival 2, Weaponry 1.
• Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Empathy 1, Expression 1, Intimidation 1, Persuasion 1, Streetwise 1, Subterfuge 2.
• Merits: Contacts (SFPD) 1, Danger Sense 2, Direction Sense 1, Iron Stamina 3, Languages (First Tongue, Russian) 2, Resources 1.
• Willpower: 8
• Harmony: 8
• Virtue: Faith
• Vice: Pride
• Health: 8
• Initiative: 7
• Defense: 3
• Speed: 11
• Primal Urge: 4
• Essence: 13/2
• Renown: Cunning 1, Glory 1, Purity 5, Wisdom 4.
• Gifts: (1) Death Sight, Eyes of Gurim, Partial Change, The Right Words; (2) Gurim's Comfort, Touch of Fever; (3) Corpse Witness, Echo Dream; (4) Gurim's Might, Word of Quiet; (5) Spirit Pack.
• Fetishes: Cult Talisman (Reflexive; +2 to next Resolve or Composure roll, once per scene) 1, Corpse Dowser (Instant; points to nearest human, wolf, or werewolf corpse within 100 yards) 2, Wolf-Drinker (Reflexive; gains a point of Essence from the killing of a werewolf, wolf-blooded, or wolf-spirit) 3.

Combat

Type	Damage	Hishu	Dalu	Gauru	Urshul	Urhan
Bite	2 (L)			11	10	7
Claw	1 (L)			10	9
Grapple	0 (B)	6	7	9	8	5

Background

Aleksandra Kuchinskaya and her brother were the children of Russian immigrants, a small pack based in Little Russia out of a small Orthodox church. Her loyalties are more to her cult than her lodge and she spends the bulk of her time searching for signs of Father Wolf's relics and leaves the business of running the church to her brother. The two have been very close since they were children and support and trust each other implicitly. She earns her living as a crime scene consultant for the SFPD, using her gifts to supplement her extensive knowledge, but has yet to take a full-time position because of the difficulties her other duties present. It is mostly through her Church ties that she is able to maintain her position as a consultant. She never married, unwilling to take a human husband and unable to arrange a wolf-blooded spouse who wasn't a relation. Another factor was her fear of carrying a child, having heard many stories of the problems it causes. To compensate, she has become a paragon of purity and enforces high standards on the rest of the pack.