The Past
There was nothing special about Bowen's childhood besides the wealth his family possessed. This wealth elevated him above the level of the common peasants and serfs of the kingdom and allowed him and his brother access to the finer things in life available during this time period. The best in life included the finest martial training to be had. He was also given access to women and other finery as was his birthright.
He served valiantly as a knight for the House of Plantagenet, the king's house for five years. His fifth year marked the end of the long war and the House of Plantagenet and all the houses and armies under it were forced to return home. During his time in the war he showed great aptitude with the bow and the sword but did not participate in heavy fighting. The House of Davion and those men who served it were often set as rear guard and so saw only skirmishes and peasant insurrection. After the war the House of Davion was one of the houses the ruling monarch accused of a fault and blamed for the loss of the war. So it was that Davion lost his lands and much that goes along with his noble birthright after the war ended.
The loss of his lands was not the most notable event of Bowen's life during the years of 1454 to 1456. As he and a small party of the his knights were returning home they were ambushed near the cost as they prepared to board ship and leave the mainland for home. They were slaughtered to the man save Bowen who was injured. Bowen had described the ordeal and insisted that his men had been slain by demon wolves. At the time it was thought that his injury was mortal as he was found by a group of knights belonging to the House of Thatcher. During the next week these knights brought Bowen over the sea with them and returned him to his lands and his home.
The demon wolves his men had been slain by had been lycanthropes and the wound he had received had infected him with the disease. His strong constitution had saved him though the wound had been grievous and meant to kill, not injure him. During the next couple weeks he would struggle with the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical pain and anguish of becoming what he would later discover was a werewolf. During this time he thought himself evil and often berated himself and named himself a coward for refusing to commit suicide. The struggle was most difficult after getting word of his brother's death at the hands of an enemy ambush during a withdraw from a fort on the coast.
The Present
Vindex is a small paramilitary mercenary group that was often employed by the various Terran governments and national organizations for reasons of plausible deniability during the last five years. Their missions were often small scale clandestine operations and they were employed only when a national military force could not be risked of political and/or diplomatic consequence was of a major concern. As such Vindex operates under a false front called Castle. This allows Vindex and its operatives the ability to live their lives free of reprisal when not on the job.
In the present day Vindex employs about ten skilled operators and has quite a collection of advanced gadgets and weaponry. The company has a small military compound located on the outskirts of Wing City and an office located in Lutetia. They often assist the local police agencies or private citizens when they need to hire a private investigator or security services. Bowen seldom involves Vindex with the various packs or factional groups in Lutetia but he is known to support the city and various charities. As such he is well liked by the city government and the people and often touted as a upstanding and moral citizen. After his first transformation and the death of his brother he became an atheist but does support many local religious groups for the positive and moral influence they can have on young people.
Bowen has had many passing loves during his long life and yet has never had children. He surmises the cause of this to be a fever he had during his youth that may have left him sterile. Despite his capability to love he realizes that he will outlive any woman he chooses as a wife and thus often breaks off relationships after months and before they can become serious enough to cause his would be spouse heart ache. His kind heart often becomes a bleeding wound after these brief relationships as he falls in love rather easily.
As far as a werewolf goes Bowen is pretty common with exception to his constitution and regenerative capabilities. Some have speculated that Bowen is gifted with true regeneration and could heal lost limb or organ. He has yet to test this theory and has no wish to do so but has noted that he heals extraordinary quickly even when faced with weapons and other devices that one of his kind should not be able to recover from. He has been described as tough as nails by his employees and friends. When he is forced into the war form and must contend with tooth and claw he prefers the use of speed, skill, and dexterity over brute strength. In the form of a wolf, the war form, or anything in between he has dark hair and bright yellow eyes.
Bowen is the oldest living werewolf he knows. His age does not make him any more or less powerful physically. He does possess a vast array of skills, talents, and knowledge accrued and honed over his long lifespan. He enjoys painting and regularly sits in on the Lutetia Musical Orchestra as a violinist, saxophonist, or pianist. He does have a few vices which include drinking expensive scotch and smoking imported cigars. To the outside world, he appears as a young, handsome, business-savvy, and charming man. However, he has a "dark side": he secretly practices BDSM.
Werewolf Traits:
• True Regeneration - Bowen heals with extraordinary swiftness, but not quite instantaneously. Almost no injuries are permanent, save the loss of his head or the destruction of his heart. Loss of limb or damaged organ takes days to recover from while punctures, lacerations, bullet wounds, and broken bones can be recovered from in seconds or minutes depending on the severity. Bullets are pushed from his body as his regeneration takes effect. Bones reset themselves unless his flesh is restrained. Lost limb can be reattached provided it is done with great haste.
• Weaknesses - Whilst silver is not any more effective at damaging him than other weapons, wounds caused by silver weapons or that come into contact with silver have their regeneration greatly impeded. Wounds caused by contact with silver also sting and burn. Aconitum or Wolf's Bane is still as poisonous to him as it is to other people. He is resistant to poisons and diseases with exception to Aconitum.
• Enhanced Strength/Agility - Bowen has enhanced strength and agility even in the homid form. He has the greatest strength while in crinos form and the greatest agility and speed while in lupis form. A good mix of both would be the hispo form.
• Enhanced Senses - Bowen has enhanced hearing and smell even in the homid form. His senses are sharpest in the lupis form.
• Enhanced Toughness - Bowen is as tough as nails even in the homid form. His bones are denser and his skin is harder to penetrate. While in crinos or hispo form his skin has toughness not unlike steel chainmail.
• Altered Forms - Bowen has five distinct and separate forms available to him. While in most of these forms he can easily maintain his intelligence and the process of rational thought unless set to a true emotional rage or when exposed to the light of a full moon. These forms are; the homid form that resembles his former human self, the glabro form which roughly resembles a human but has too many bestial features to be mistaken for a human in bright light, and the crinos form which is the massive hybrid form commonly associated with a lycanthrope, the hispo form - the shape of a prehistoric dire wolf, and the Lupus form which is indistinguishable from a normal wolf but with superior agility and speed. He can change at will but is most comfortable in the homid, lupus, or hispo form and seldom uses the glabro or crinos form.
Glabro: The glabro form is bipedal, and it doesn't possess obvious fangs or claws, but the resemblance to a human being ends there. Bowen gains two-hundred pounds of muscle and six inches of height when shifting into this form from his normal human self. After the shift he stands at six foot, eight inches tall and weighs in at four-hundred and twenty pounds. His body hair becomes much more profuse, his teeth and nails elongate, his brow slopes, and he looks huge and menacing. He can speak though his words have a guttural rasp to them. His eyes glow with a menacing yellow.
Crinos: Crinos is not a form for deliberation, even with other werewolves. Shifting from glabro to crinos, Bowen grows in height by three foot, four inches and gains another four hundred pounds of muscle weight. His head changes to a wolf's maw, and the fangs and claws are now fully grown. His arms become long and apelike, and he can move either on two legs or all fours. He grows a tail, which helps with balance and a thick coat of fur as dark as midnight. He can speak albeit very crudely, managing maybe one or two words at a time. Bowen has great difficulty keeping control while in this form and so seldom uses it.
Hispo: The hispo form resembles a normal wolf in the same way that the glabro form resembles a normal human. Bowen in hispo form looks like a prehistoric dire wolf. His head and jaws are massive, even more so than the crinos form, and his bite is more powerful because of this increased size. He can stand on his hind legs in hispo form with great difficulty if necessary, but he is much more comfortable on all fours.
He has no hands in this form and cannot speak. Bowen stands five foot tall at the shoulder and weighs slightly more than eight-hundred pounds while in in this form. He has midnight fur and yellow eyes. He walks and runs on four legs and thus is faster and a bit more agile. His senses are more acute in this form.
Lupus: A werewolf in lupus form cannot be distinguished from a natural wolf and in some cases a large dog with wolf lineage. Bowen resembles a rather large but very handsome wild wolf with midnight fur and yellow eyes. He is most comfortable in this form or in the homid form. His senses are sharpest in this form and he is very fast on his feet and agile. Bowen weighs about one hundred and twenty pounds, only slightly bigger than a natural gray wolf.
• Lunar Cycle - Bowen is forced to transform into Lupus form if exposed to the full moon's light.
Standard Equipment:
• Silvered/Carbon Steel Khukuri or Silvered/Carbon Steel Tomahawk
• Browning Hi Power Standard Semi-Auto Pistol
Important Characters
After refusing Bowen's offered aid a number of times primarily to due to politics and pride, the Bloodstone Pack leader may have burned bridges that are not so easily repaired.
