Name: Jacob Corenson ("Jacob Thunder-Paws")<br/>Breed: Gurahl<br/>Tribe: Mountain Guardians<br/>Affiliation: None<br/>Gender: Male<br/>Occupation/Position: Student<br/>Age: 20<br/>Apparent Age: 20<br/><br/>Appearance:<br/>Jacob is a large, powerfully built young man, standing around 6'5" in his Homid form.  He's broad-shouldered, moderately tanned, and fairly good-looking in a rugged sort of way.  His hair is a dirty-blond color, cut rather short and without much style, and his eyes are hazel.<br/>Although quietly proud of his physique, Jacob doesn't feel the need to dress to show it off.  His usual outerwear consists of jeans, a t-shirt, a leather jacket, and hiking boots.<br/><br/>Personality:<br/>Jacob is laid-back and surprisingly likable, though he can be stubborn as a mule when tempers start to fray.  He tends to be humorously self-effacing about the fact that he's not all that bright.  Although he doesn't particularly enjoy fighting and doesn't like actually hurting people, he is intensely protective of his friends, and like all Mountain Guardians, he has an unfortunate inability to resist a challenge.<br/><br/>Basic Bio:<br/>Born in Virginia, Jacob Corenson never thought of himself as anything special.  Sure, he was probably the best athlete in town, and the star of his high school's football and wrestling teams, but he never felt like he'd accomplished much.  Although he got several scholarship offers, somehow he didn't feel right going to school by playing sports, and really wasn't sure what to do with his life.  He wouldn't have minded a career in medicine, but he didn't have the grades (or, for that matter, the brains) for it, and he knew it.<br/><br/>Shortly after graduating high school, Jacob's life took a sharp turn for the weird.  He had the misfortune to cross the wrong street at the wrong time, and was hit head-on by a drunk driver...and when his vision cleared, he realized that the car had come out of it worse than he had.  And he had paws.  And the driver was staring at him and gibbering in terror.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, Jacob's parents were several generations removed from his Gurahl ancestor, and wouldn't have known what happened even if he'd dared to ask.  He ended up leaving town on his own in order to try and figure out the strange changes he was experiencing; the Gurahl finally caught up with him a few weeks later.<br/><br/>Jacob's Buri-Jaan, an elder named Walks-Through-Fire, taught him well, and Jacob distinguished himself -- even going so far as to personally bring down a Black Spiral Dancer during a chance encounter (for which he was dubbed "Thunder-Paws").  Unfortunately, he found that he just wasn't feeling the whole holy war against the Pattern Breaker.  Sure, monsters were bad, but who decided it was his job to fight against the coming Apocalypse?  Walks-Through-Fire was understandably annoyed, but finally allowed Jacob to leave -- "temporarily," he said, figuring that Jacob would come around after a year or two.<br/><br/>Jacob now resides in Sanctuary, a town where he can avoid most of the trouble he seems to be destined for.  He's currently enrolled in the local community college, taking classes in the culinary arts.  Although there's a certain irony in coming to a city loaded with supernaturals to avoid his problems, so far he's been lucky and hasn't run into any trouble.<br/><br/>Game Limitations: No male-male, no BDSM or suchlike, site rules