Iron Shirt

Iron Shirtis a Native American outlaw who travels across the southwest marauding, killing and stealing with no clear cut reason of motive. Some stories say he is a medicine man, some say he is indestructible, others fear him to be hell spawned and half coyote. It is also thought by some that he is the reborn form of the great Comanche chief Iron Shirt, as he wears the Spanish chest plate the original Iron Shirt was known to wear. What is certain is that he has a fiercely loyal following of bandito's, Mexicans, half breeds and other tribal exiles like himself.

Background: Lone Eagle is a Comanche who was exiled from his tribe after delving into dark magic. His tribal leader slashed his face causing his right eye to cloud over. Following his exile he moved west and married a Navajo woman who was the daughter of the tribal medicine man. Learning from his new father Lone Eagle learned the ways of tribal medicine; but also furthered his decent into dark magic’s as well as the Navajo practice of skin walking. The rite of skin walking, while a Navajo custom, is forbidden in the Navajo Nation and thus Lone Eagle found himself an exile.

Without a Nation to call his own, Lone Eagle went about the process of building his own. His first act was to invade the Comanche burial ground where the long dead chief Iron Shirt was buried. Lone Eagle dug up the once feared Chief and took the Spanish breastplate that the fallen chief once wore. Following this Lone Eagle began to call himself Iron Shirt reborn and gained followers almost immediately. The new Iron Shirt took all who would come, bandits, slaves, half-breeds, Mexicans, exiles - all are welcome and together they have been terrorizing the Texas frontier for their personal gain

Strengths and Weaknesses: Iron Shirt is first and foremost known for his "Iron Shirt." This is a breastplate of Spanish plate mail from when the Spanish explored North America. Other than working as a bulletproof vest it has little purpose, though it does strike fear into many that stand against him.

Iron Shirt also has a medicine stick that has rattlesnake rattles dangling from it. At his command the stick itself can transform into a sidewinder rattlesnake and do Iron Shirt's bidding. If Iron Shirt is able to meditate without interruption he can actually see through the snakes eyes and have even further control of its actions.

Iron Shirt himself is a skilled herbalist and can indeed change into the form of a coyote. When in this form he maintains his clouded eye and also cannot perform any of his other abilities.