Baron
Name: James Guiscard
Alias: Baron
Age: 82
Species: Werewolf
Family: Ragenard Guiscard (brother), Maxwell Lessard (son)
James is the fourth generation of Guiscard to serve as Pack Leader of the Bloodstone pack. He took up the name 'Baron' two years into his new position and has held the pack for eight years now.
Under his leadership, the Bloodstone pack has flourished in numbers and nearly doubled its territory in the past four years. Unlike many old school Lutetian packs, Baron is known for taking in 'mutts' - werewolves who contracted lycanthropy via bites - which has served to swell his numbers to a respectable size. Given that this practice is typically more common in smaller and younger packs looking to scrape a semblance of security through numbers, it has given the Bloodstones something of a ragtag reputation in recent years, but it hasn't shaken their hold over the streets of Vargeras.
Baron strives to maintain a balance of morality and freedom in the running of the Bloodstone pack, and though he - and those of his pack - are far from upstanding, law abiding citizens, the Bloodstone pack has been largely devoid of involvement into organized crime for the past eight years. This is a far shift from its history of gun and drug trafficking it maintained during the leadership of Baron's father. However this shift away from its former ventures has in recent times left the pack caught up in a conflict it was no longer prepared for as the pack learns that some feuds and old enemies are never truly left behind.
Baron boasts the rare ability of instant regeneration, capable of mending most wounds as quickly as they're dealt. This impressive healing ability has proven to extend to his bodies natural ability to repair itself even from the effects of aging. At 82 years of age, Baron still looks to be in the prime of his life. In stark contrast to his bodies ability to repair itself, Baron also suffers from a severe genetic flaw. Though a closely guarded secret for many years, Baron as his father before him, suffers an exceptionally rare but severe allergy to silver that is capable of disrupting his body's natural healing capabilities. With the recent discovery of Baron's life-threatening condition by rival packs and slow recovery after a near fatal ambush at the hands of Scions of Aodhan, one if left to question if his days as Pack Leader are numbered even as his brother Ragenard moves to temporarily take on the mantle of Pack Leader.