Werewolf/Theme/Protectorate/Wissahickon Heron

The Wissahickon Heron is a Dihar, an anciently powerful spirit that has either stubbornly or devotedly called Wissahickon Creek its home for the better half of the past millennium. While it would not be accurate to characterize the Heron as the Totem of the Protectorate, a tenuous if longstanding accord has remained in place since the original peace treaty.

Whether the Wissahickon Heron is truly a heron spirit of any kind is unknown, as the Heron has only deigned to show itself to the People a single time in oral or written memory. In every other instance that the Heron has chosen to communicate directly with the local Uratha, it has done so through the intermediary of a Royal Avatar, always a heron, and thus the moniker.

The perennial problem child of the River Court, the Heron rarely subjects itself to the whims of other spirits and occasionally outright refuses to go along with otherwise unanimous decisions, but its longstanding reputation as a preserver of balance is not without merit, and it's often left to its devices out in the wilderness -- whatever those devices may be. Some surmise that the Heron may have been to blame for the occasional deaths at the Devil's Pool of Wissahickon, as retribution for the modern defilement of what was once a natural and spiritual shrine.