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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's rare but a kinfolk can have connections to other supernaturals as well. Kinfolk may have fae ancestry as well (particularly among the Fianna), making them [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming kinain or even actual Changelings]]. There's also nothing stopping a kinfolk from Awakening as a {{TabletopGame/mage|TheAscension}}]], dying and becoming a {{TabletopGame/Wraith|TheOblivion}} or attracting the attention of a {{TabletopGame/vampire|TheMasquerade}} and being turned into a ghoul or being Embraced as a vampire themselves.

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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's rare but a kinfolk can have connections to other supernaturals as well. Kinfolk may have fae ancestry as well (particularly among the Fianna), making them [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming kinain or even actual Changelings]]. There's also nothing stopping a kinfolk from Awakening as a {{TabletopGame/mage|TheAscension}}]], {{TabletopGame/mage|TheAscension}}, dying and becoming a {{TabletopGame/Wraith|TheOblivion}} or attracting the attention of a {{TabletopGame/vampire|TheMasquerade}} and being turned into a ghoul or being Embraced as a vampire themselves.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: According to the revised Glass Walker tribebook, the Glass Walkers do not treat their kinfolk well. Kinfolk are often seen as little more than breeding stock or grunts who are assigned unpleasant tasks. For a tribe that values human progress and whose whole purpose is to shepherd humans, this is hypocritical.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: According to the revised Glass Walker tribebook, the Glass Walkers do not treat their kinfolk well. Kinfolk are often seen as little more than breeding stock or grunts who are assigned unpleasant tasks. For tasks, which is quite ironic for a tribe that values human progress and whose whole purpose is to shepherd humans, this is hypocritical.humans.



* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's rare but a kinfolk can have connections to other supernaturals as well. Kinfolk may have fae ancestry as well (particularly among the Fianna), making them [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming kinain or even actual Changelings.]] There's also nothing stopping a kinfolk Awakening as a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension mage,]] dying and becoming a [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion wraith]] or attracting the attention of a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade vampire]] and being turned into a ghoul or being Embraced as a vampire themselves (though a vampire doing so is likely to recieve a ''very'' violent response from the Garou if they find out).

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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's rare but a kinfolk can have connections to other supernaturals as well. Kinfolk may have fae ancestry as well (particularly among the Fianna), making them [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming kinain or even actual Changelings.]] Changelings]]. There's also nothing stopping a kinfolk from Awakening as a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension mage,]] {{TabletopGame/mage|TheAscension}}]], dying and becoming a [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion wraith]] {{TabletopGame/Wraith|TheOblivion}} or attracting the attention of a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade vampire]] {{TabletopGame/vampire|TheMasquerade}} and being turned into a ghoul or being Embraced as a vampire themselves (though a vampire doing so is likely to recieve a ''very'' violent response from the Garou if they find out).themselves.
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: It's rare but a kinfolk can have connections to other supernaturals as well. Kinfolk may have fae ancestry as well (particularly among the Fianna), making them [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming kinain or even actual Changelings.]] There's also nothing stopping a kinfolk Awakening as a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension mage,]] dying and becoming a [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion wraith]] or attracting the attention of a [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade vampire]] and being turned into a ghoul or being Embraced as a vampire themselves (though a vampire doing so is likely to recieve a ''very'' violent response from the Garou if they find out).
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** While it doesn't always work out (see under MaritalRapeLicense) the Fianna generally try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths to create this situation, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.

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** While it doesn't always work out the Fianna carefully try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths to create this situation, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.

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** While it doesn't always work out (see under MaritalRapeLicense) the Fianna carefully generally try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths to create this situation, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.


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* HonoraryUncle: Garou parents can often end up in this position in kinfolk families, as their duties fighting the Wyrm means they can't be parents so they leave their children with the kinfolk parent and their (usually also kinfolk) new spouse, visiting when they can and only telling the child who their biological parent is if the Change.
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** While it doesn't always work out the Fianna carefully try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.

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** While it doesn't always work out the Fianna carefully try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths, paths to create this situation, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.
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** While it doesn't always work out the Fianna carefully try to put compatible Garou and kinfolk in each others paths, as their cultural focus on family connections is generally seen as more important than pragmatic breeding.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: From a human perspective, since they are the most anti human of the Gaian Changing Breeds. The rest tend to deplore the excesses of human culture but still have a lot of affection for the species that makes up half their nature (with the exception of the Rokea, who mostly don't care about humans at all). By contrast the Ratkin were always created to kill humans as population control and millennia of being prevented from doing so by the Garou has left them to generally despise humans as a whole.

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* TokenEvilTeammate: From a human perspective, since they are the most anti human of the Gaian Changing Breeds. The Barring extremists like the Red Talons the rest tend to deplore the excesses of human culture but still have a lot of affection for the species that makes up half their nature (with the exception of the Rokea, who mostly don't care about humans at all). By contrast the Ratkin were always created to kill humans as population control and millennia of being prevented from doing so by the Garou has left them to generally despise humans as a whole.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: From a human perspective, since they are the most anti human of the Gaian Changing Breeds. The rest tend to deplore the excesses of human culture but still have a lot of affection for the species that makes up half their nature (with the exception of the Rokea, who mostly don't care about humans at all). By contrast the Ratkin were always created to kill humans as population control and millennia of being prevented from doing so by the Garou has left them to generally despise humans as a whole.
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* DarkSecret: The Ananasi are the only one of the Changing Breeds not created by Gaia to serve a purpose in her overall model of the world, being instead created by the powerful spirit Ananasa for her purposes. They are broadly aligned with the Gaian Changing Breeds' goals (though often not their methods) but given the importance the others place on Gaia (and the often deeply xenophobic nature of many of the Changing Breeds) they find it expedient to let everyone assume that they were made by Gaia too.
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* TricksterMentor: Like the Nuwisha the Corax enjoy a good practical joke and like to use such to impart lessons. However unlike the Nuwisha they don't see this as the ''only'' means of teaching a lesson and tend to pay more attention to making the lesson actually stick rather than making it funny.
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** In-universe the Mokolé are the actual oldest Changing Breed, seemingly predating humanity.

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** In-universe the Mokolé are the actual oldest Changing Breed, seemingly predating humanity.mammals.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: In universe and out, from the Gurahl describing themselves as the oldest of the Changing Breeds;
** In-universe the Mokolé are the actual oldest Changing Breed, seemingly predating humanity.
** Out-of-universe this would make little sense from an evolutionary perspective, as bears are the youngest of the carnivore families and in fact evolved from the Garou's canines.

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* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Warhammers are a traditional Get weapon.


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* LovedByAll: You'd have a hard time finding any Garou with a bad word to say about the Croatan. Their sacrifice impressed every other tribe so much that even those that tend to be pretty racist about the other two Native American tribes have nothing but respect for the Croatan.



%%* BraveScot: Brave ''Picts'', but the trope still holds.%%ZCE. Explain how.

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%%* * BraveScot: Brave ''Picts'', but the trope still holds.%%ZCE. Explain how.holds, since the Picts make up about half of the ancient ancestry of the Scots.
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* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: According to one story the tribe once followed Skyhawk as their totem but Uktena ended up (largely by accident) putting Skyhawk into a deathly slumber. The tribe tried to force Uktena to bring her back which he said he could do but offered to replace her as tribal totem instead, giving the tribe access to secrets Skyhawk never could and the tribe agreed.
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* {{Gonk}}: They tend not to be very pretty in human form, with jutting lower jaws, bristly hair and heavy builds. This is not universal however and some can be good looking.
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* BackFromTheBrink: Due to the Sima's attacks they were on the edge of extinction, falling to the Wyrm or both before one of their number managed to negotiate an alliance with the other Changing Breeds of Africa (eventually including the Garou of the Silent Striders and an African offshoot of the Red Talons) and defeat the mad Simba king Black Tooth. Unusually among the Chaging Breeds this alliance, called the Ahadi, actually held after the shared enemy was gone, leaving the Ajabi at the heart of a significant new power, giving them the protection they needed to recover.

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* BackFromTheBrink: Due to the Sima's Simba's attacks they were on the edge of extinction, falling to the Wyrm or both before one of their number managed to negotiate an alliance with the other Changing Breeds of Africa (eventually including the Garou of the Silent Striders and an African offshoot of the Red Talons) and defeat the mad Simba king Black Tooth. Unusually among the Chaging Breeds this alliance, called the Ahadi, actually held after the shared enemy was gone, leaving the Ajabi at the heart of a significant new power, giving them the protection they needed to recover.

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The metis thing was already the Bastet book way before W20


* BackFromTheBrink: Due to the Sima's attacks they were on the edge of extinction, falling to the Wyrm or both before one of their number managed to negotiate an alliance with the other Changing Breeds of Africa (eventually including the Garou of the Silent Striders and an African offshoot of the Red Talons) and defeat the mad Simba king Black Tooth. Unusually among the Chaging Breeds this alliance, called the Ahadi, actually held after the shared enemy was gone, leaving the Ajabi at the heart of a significant new power, giving them the protection they needed to recover.



* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to W20 ''Changing Breeds'', metis Ajaba often have hermaphroditism.

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* {{Hermaphrodite}}: According to W20 ''Changing Breeds'', metis {{Hermaphrodite}}:Metis Ajaba often have hermaphroditism.
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** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the Ceilican who were in this position after many of their race being enslaved by evil Fae and many more dying in witch hunts due to their longstanding association with human magic users but they managed to recover due to somehow using dreams to negate their Yava (possibly permanently) and then faking their actual extinction so to this day even the other Bastet think they're dead and gone so no one's coming for them.

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** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] {{Averted|Trope}} with the Ceilican who were in this position after many of their race being enslaved by evil Fae and many more dying in witch hunts due to their longstanding association with human magic users but they managed to recover due to somehow using dreams to negate their Yava (possibly permanently) and then faking their actual extinction so to this day even the other Bastet think they're dead and gone so no one's coming for them.



* HumanoidAbomination: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by its seeming immortality.

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* HumanoidAbomination: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] {{Implied|Trope}} by its seeming immortality.
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** The Khan aren't doing much better though in their case for similar reasons (tigers are still around but they're not doing well). This hasn't been help by their tendency to get into very foolish internecine wars.

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** The Khan aren't doing much better though in their case for similar reasons (tigers are still around but they're not doing well). This hasn't been help helped by their tendency to get into very foolish internecine wars.
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** [[AvertedTropeAverted]] with the Ceilican who were in this position after many of their race being enslaved by evil Fae and many more dying in witch hunts due to their longstanding association with human magic users but they managed to recover due to somehow using dreams to negate their Yava (possibly permanently) and then faking their actual extinction so to this day even the other Bastet think they're dead and gone so no one's coming for them.

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** [[AvertedTropeAverted]] [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with the Ceilican who were in this position after many of their race being enslaved by evil Fae and many more dying in witch hunts due to their longstanding association with human magic users but they managed to recover due to somehow using dreams to negate their Yava (possibly permanently) and then faking their actual extinction so to this day even the other Bastet think they're dead and gone so no one's coming for them.

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* DyingRace: The Bubasti are few and growing fewer because their feline kinfolk are near-extinct, with the only survivng members of the species held prisoner and ghouled by the Followers of Set. They occasionally bargain for a few nights' access to the captured kyphur cats, or breed with servals and caracals instead, but it's not working out great. Their ballpark total population is ''fifty-two''.

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The Bubasti are few and growing fewer because their feline kinfolk are near-extinct, with the only survivng members of the species held prisoner and ghouled by the Followers of Set. They occasionally bargain for a few nights' access to the captured kyphur cats, or breed with servals and caracals instead, but it's not working out great. Their ballpark total population is ''fifty-two''.''fifty-two''.
** The Khan aren't doing much better though in their case for similar reasons (tigers are still around but they're not doing well). This hasn't been help by their tendency to get into very foolish internecine wars.
** [[AvertedTropeAverted]] with the Ceilican who were in this position after many of their race being enslaved by evil Fae and many more dying in witch hunts due to their longstanding association with human magic users but they managed to recover due to somehow using dreams to negate their Yava (possibly permanently) and then faking their actual extinction so to this day even the other Bastet think they're dead and gone so no one's coming for them.


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* SplitPersonality: As a side effect of either temporarily or permanently (even they're not sure which) removing their Yava the Ceilican picked up a new one which causes them to shift personalities at least once a year, sometimes more. They retain their memories but lack any direct connection to them, described as being like a movie they saw rather than things that actually happened to them. They sometimes return to old personalities, sometimes they never do.
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* TheAtoner: Ironically enough for a tribe perceived as ruthless bastards, the Shadow Lords ''really'' hate the fact that their rash action spelled the end of the Camazotz. The tribe has taken decisive action to make up for their past sins. Miguel Gutierrez, a Shadow Lord who channeled the spirit of Dark Claw Of Vengeance, even managed to liberate an aspect of Bat from the Wyrm's grip.

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* TheAtoner: Ironically enough for a tribe perceived as ruthless bastards, the Shadow Lords ''really'' hate the fact that their rash action spelled the end of the Camazotz. The tribe has taken decisive action to make up for their past sins. Miguel Gutierrez, a Shadow Lord who channeled the spirit of Dark Claw Of of Vengeance, even managed to liberate an aspect of Bat from the Wyrm's grip.



* WeAreEverywhere: As per the Raven totem's orders, the Corax spread across the globe and Umbra. They used to stay out of South America, where the Camazotz werebats did the same job as them, but since the Camatoz died out they have moved into that area too.

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* WeAreEverywhere: As per the Raven totem's orders, the Corax spread across the globe and Umbra. They used to stay out of South America, where the Camazotz werebats did the same job as them, messengers, but since the Camatoz died out they have moved into that area too.



** When the Black Spiral Dancers capture Gaia Garou, they give their captives the choice of traversing the Black Spiral Labyrinth or facing execution.

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** When the Black Spiral Dancers capture Gaia Gaian Garou, they give their captives the choice of traversing the Black Spiral Labyrinth or facing execution.



** Subverted with Black Spirals Dancers with Pure Breed 5, who look like White Howler throwbacks. The ''Caerns: Places of Power'' book describes the leader of the Trinity Hive Caern, a handsome Black Spiral Dancer with high Pure Breed who is normal-looking enough to pass as a Gaia Garou.

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** Subverted with Black Spirals Spiral Dancers with Pure Breed 5, who look like White Howler throwbacks. The ''Caerns: Places of Power'' book describes the leader of the Trinity Hive Caern, a handsome Black Spiral Dancer with high Pure Breed who is normal-looking enough to pass as a Gaia Gaian Garou.

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* BrutishCharacterBrutishWeapon: Warhammers are a traditional Get weapon.



* DropTheHammer: War hammers are a traditional Get weapon.
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* BeenThereShapedHistory: A rare case of this not being ''human'' history. The Gurahl deliberately created grizzly bears via careful breeding and a touch of spirit magic in order to create more resilient ursine Kinfolk.
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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: The Croatan were this on a cultural level the the Uktena and the Wendigo, being wise enough to alleviate the other two tribe's more negative qualities. Without them around the Uktena are getting deeper and deeper into forbidden knowledge and the Wendigo are becoming increasingly lost to their cold fury.

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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: The Croatan were this on a cultural level the to the Uktena and the Wendigo, being wise enough to alleviate the other two tribe's more negative qualities. Without them around the Uktena are getting deeper and deeper into forbidden knowledge and the Wendigo are becoming increasingly lost to their cold fury.
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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: The Croatan were this on a cultural level the the Uktena and the Wendigo, being wise enough to alleviate the other two tribe's more negative qualities. Without them around the Uktena are getting deeper and deeper into forbidden knowledge and the Wendigo are becoming increasingly lost to their cold fury.
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* TheResenter: While they undoubtedly have reasons to be bitter the Wendigo are becoming increasingly defined by their resentment. They resent the non-Native American tribes for either being involved in or not stopping the colonialization of America, they resent the Uktena for not being as bitter as them and, though they'd never admit it, they resent the Croatan for dying. This is really hampering their effectiveness as a tribe.
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* DrowningMySorrows: The Fianna reaction to grief is pretty much always to drink heavily.

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