Silvertip

Warleader of Blackfur ribe

Silvertip is the war-leader of the Blackfur tribe, whose range extends the farthest east of all tribes of Kith.

Silvertip, like all kithkin, is broader and taller and all humans except the Northmen of Vykir — which means she towers over the much smaller carthins and turanians. Her fur is the color of the red setting sun with black striping from the feet to midway up her chest. She derived her name from the silver tips on her hands and the tops of her ears.

In battle she favors a hard leather jerkin and leggings dyed red to match her fur and plated with steel over her heart. The steel plate is decorated by her tribe's symbol and was a passage gift from a dwarven craftsman. His second gift is the steel warhammer that she carried into battle. In addition she also carries the javelins and katar that make her people such warriors of renown.

Early Life

When Silvertip was born, the Blackfur tribe was on the decline. Their hunting grounds were repeatedly used by the many caravans along the Iron Road without any attempt to gift the tribe for its use. Instead, more than one huntsmen returned home with a kithkin pelt for their troubles. So desperate was the situation that many of the people were leaving to join their cousins in other tribes. Two things turned the situation around. The first was the death of the shaman Moonhunter and the warleader Wolfeyes and the hands of a caravan leader named Lavius. The second was the violation of their ancestral burial lands by scouts working for Lavius.

Whitesnake, Silvertip's uncle, became the tribes new head shaman and named his brother Longclaw, Silvertip's father, as war-leader. Whitesnake called the shaman together and entered the spirit world. Although it would cost Longclaw his life, he was infused with the angry spirits of their ancestors. His warcry echoed across the plains and all men that heard it were afraid and the blackfur everywhere where heartened. The tribe descended upon Lavius's caravan and although he held the high ground and over twenty archers the entire caravan was destroyed.

When the battle was over the spirit extracted their cost and Longclaw was buried with honor in the guardian totem of the spirits. Between Whitesnake and her mother Nighthowler, Silvertip was groomed to take her father's position as warleader when the time came. Until then she served with the scout and was accounted one of the tribes best warriors. Still she was young and somewhat inexperienced when the time finally came for her to take up the mantel of warleader.

Silvertip rose to the position of warleader during a brief, but violent, confrontation between the orcs and turanians for control of the Bloodwalk Pass. As the war spilled over into the Blackfur territory, Silvertip and her scouts fought both sides as they presented themselves. In the end it was Silvertip that forced both sides to negotiate a truce and gained a greater foothold in the mountains for her own people. While this was eventually sold back to both sides, the steel goods were more welcome silver coins.