Ream

//This is part of the Hangover city, Liverpool, uk setting//

=The sheriff.=

No one is sure what sheriff Ream is, though given he has been around for at least 350 years (there is a portrait of him by William Hogarth in the Walker art gallery) the safe money is on 'Not Mortal'.

Ream is highly intelligent and capable of being completely emotionless. Appearance wise he seems to have been caught in his mid 40's, his blond hair has grey streaks and he sports a neatly trimmed matching beard. Illustrations of him created over his time in office when he has held 'official' positions in the mortal authorities (such as the Hogarth) show him always just slightly behind the fashion; and currently he is favouring a cream lounge suit with blue shirt and a White tie. He has diplomatic ties with most of the supernatural factions in the city, and a few of the law related mortal ones (like the police service and the county courts) He has a reputation for giving unbiased and factual accounts and summaries of any incident brought to the High Council (or indeed the mortal authorities where he has appears as an expert witness).

He has lead Rare Breed for as long as any one can recall; carefully choosing it's prospective members from the old families of the city that have proved themselves loyal, mentoring them to determine their particular strengths and then pairing them up with an older member to learn the ropes. He has taken care to keep up with the times, which means that in addition to the magics and techniques from lore, many of the breed are also proficient with that latest forensic analysis and computer surveillance techniques and are employed by the local emergency services. This helps to provide a useful cover for their Covenant activities.

His relationship with the werewolf faction in the city took a major knock a few years ago when he ‘came out’. The local wolf packs have big issues on homosexuality as it clashes with their fundamental drive to reproduce and make lots of wolf cubs to carry on the blood line. There is still an element of friction between himself and Gunnar which they will put behind them only when the city is really in danger. The rest of the time the atmosphere when both men are in the room is rather cold. Often when Ream is speaking at the High Council Gunnar with pointedly ignore him until one of the other council members addresses him directly.

“You don’t understand. I was not living a lie as you claim. I was nothing. There was nothing before him. I had no knowledge of those emotions. Like a man who had lived forever in the dark and so knew nothing of colour. I was Blind Justice. I gave my council only on the facts of the matter and there were no other considerations. I looked into those brown eyes and saw colour for the first time. Now. Now things are different and I am a better man for it. ” Ream’s husband, Eurig Randal, is a little too good to be true and something of an Adonis. He is around six foot six, with dark hair and deep brown eyes, and usually bearded. He has the type of sculptured body men spend life times in the Gym for and never achieve. Most people peg him in his mid 30’s unless he is clean shaven, which usually only occurs after he has lost a bet, when he looks closer to his early twenties. He has a soft welsh accent, an easy smile and a magnetic personality. He seems to be a genuinely nice guy, very loyal to those around him and putting himself in danger to help them on numerous occasions. It is thought it is this quality that first attracted Ream to him.

He appeared out of nowhere in the gay clubs of the city around five years ago, and rapidly collecting a following of enraptured mortals around him. He claims to have come from a community in Mid Wales which no one can find any trace of. Most believe he was a White court virgin who became mortal on encountering Sheriff Ream and falling in love. He certainly claims that everything changed for him the night he met Ream as a prisoner in the Breeds lock up.

In fact the truth is more complex than that. Eurig is actually a wolfwere. His true body is a small rather weedy looking wolf with very dark black pelt that can pass for a shaggy grey hound in bad light. Not surprisingly perhaps, he rarely appears in this form. The community in mid Wales he referred to was an small privately owned wolf pack that was destroyed by animal rights activists. Running for his life and with little experience of humanity, the young wolf created a human shape by combining elements from the images of men in a discarded periodical in a mens toilet on Llandudno bus station. He had expected the body to allow him to blend in - in which regard his plan was an unmitigated failure. However by gathering around him a number of mortals he has carved out a life for himself in the city and has left the scared lone wolf that ran from Wales far behind.

They live in an apartment in the Albert dock with their two adopted 'sons' (or cubs as Eurig calls them); Brian Walton and his lover Jake Pym. Brian was one of the first mortals to attach himself to Eurig when he arrived in the city and now works as a dispatcher for the Breed. Jake Pym is one of the Breeds more capable warriors, specialising in taking out trouble causing Faerie.

Ream and Rare Breed game mechanics