History Characters / WerewolfTheForsaken

* EvilMatriarch: The only idigam explicitly female, and she pretty much has the "overbearing parental figure" down to an extreme.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Suthanu-Sua are mentally ''compelled'' to kill sinners and evil doers, with the frequency set by how powerful they are; the most powerful Suthanu-Sua have to be committing a murder ''a week''. Failure to kill drives them insane, with insanity deepening if they still refuse to obey, and can only be cured by finally giving in and committing murder. However, [[MortonsFolk killing people forces a Harmony check]] if the Suthanu-Sua is at all a decent sort of person (6 for innocents, 7 for sinners), so they'll probably end up going permanently crazy anyway.

* ThatsUsingYourTeeth: Suthanu-Sua with the Spinebite aspect have the ability to deliver an exceptionally lethal bite, allowing them to rip out peoples' throats for immense damage.
* TheVirus: Almost literally. Suthanu-Sua enter a quasi-biological mystic condition on every 10th birthday, in which they are compelled to add a new werecat to the Colony. By an act of will, they can secrete a virulent spiritual toxin (which werecats refer to as [[BlackComedy "Cat Scratch Fever"]]) and deliver it via their claws. If the Suthanu-Sua can stay within the victim's presence for the next 24 hours, the victim will become a new werecat. Otherwise, the victim dies.

* OurMerfolkAreDifferent: They're shapeshifting, cursed fish-men, who don't even have the ability to breathe underwater as standard.

* CleverCrow: They owe their existence to the symbolism of the crow/raven as a trickster and cunning mischief-maker.

* LiteralManeater: Because of the intense and confusing urges for physical gratification that the virus induces when it triggers, those infected by it often end up sating their urge to kill and mate by combining the two, using their transformed body to butcher and eat their bedmate once satisfied.

* PossiblyMagicalPossiblyMundane: Averted. Although werewolves spread a lot of stories claiming a magical origin for it, the sourcebook it appears in[[note]]Night Horrors: Wolfsbane[[/note]] claims it's just an ordinary disease.

* ForScience: For all of its posturing, this is Gifmalu's real motivation-the desire to know everything there is about the blending of flesh and spirit.

* KillItWithFire: A strange variant. The Explorer ''cannot'' stand to be around someone who is being burned alive. Human pain is fine, fire is fine, but when the two are combined, it spiritually wracks it, nullifying all of its powers and almost completely negating its defenses...unless the creature in question is a being specifcally vulnerable to fire itself (a [[VampireTheRequiem vampire]], for example), which is a different enough frequency that the Explorer can ignore it (thankfully, it isn't yet aware of this).

* OmmnicidalManiac: It isn't actual sustenance, what spurs Mussughana's hunger-it's hatred for the very concept of existence and a desire to return to the primordial void by eating everything not of it.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The Kanaima do not care about the magnitude of the crime they are called to punish, nor

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* GlamourFailure: His stolen skins slowly rot away, never lasting more than two or three weeks before they become obvious.

* WoundThatNeverHeals: He suffers from the Unhealing flaw; his stolen skins don't regenerate themselves, meaning any wounds inflicted whilst he wears that stolen guise remain with him until he sheds it once and for all.

A character who serves as an example of the "Artifact" classification of shapeshifters, Patches is a mysterious figure whose powers come from her ever-present greatcoat. Which is made from the stolen and preserved faces of countless victims, human and animal, that she has stitched together.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Patches can transform into the

* BalefulPolymorph

* {{Curse}}

* DeathByChildbirth
* LiteralManeater
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent
* ScaledUp

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* BodyHorror

* ArcNumbers: Three, and multiples of three, are repeated throughout Gamugur's form.

* BlobMonster: In its "native" form, Gifmal Igizalag basically looks like an animate blob of sapient mercury.
* ChaosIsEvil: Subverted; the Explorer worships Chaos as the embodiment of everything good and worthwhile, and seeks to create the ultimate chaos by undoing the stability of the two worlds.

* IncendiaryExponent: The easiest way to destroy this idigam? Set yourself on fire (or set someone else on fire as a HumanSacrifice). Oh, and it ''has'' to be a HeroicSacrifice; if you're immune to fire, then you're not in pain, so the Explorer
* KillItWithFire: A strange variant. The Explorer ''cannot'' stand to be around someone who is being burned alive. Human pain is fine, fire is fine, but when the two are combined, it spiritually wracks it, nullifying all of its powers and almost completely negating its defenses.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Averted. Gifmalu Igizalag basically translates as "Perfect Dusk Watchman".
* SanityHasAdvantage: Gifmalu Igizalag is pretty much guaranteed to never succeed in its goals because its obsession with trying out the new and fresh keeps it from making or staying with concentrated efforts. It basically refuses to do anything but just poke around at random, finding the idea of doing otherwise incomprehensible.

One, it was an unnatural duality, two spirits that were perfect halves of the greater whole. In the days of Pangaea, the idigam Umum'Abum was unity incarnate. But Luna grew jealous of the perfection of its wholeness and demanded that Father Wolf separate the two, so that no love was greater than that of the fickle goddess and her chosen mate. So it was torn apart and thrown to the moon, until eventually one half of it tumbled back to the moon, coalescing within the haunted catacombs below an ancient graveyard. Of course, such is the biased claims of the clearly insane Umum Wabalu Damu. But what is irrefutably true is that, seeing a kinship with the ghosts roaming its graveyard, the idigam began assimilating ghosts into itself, trying to use them to patch the hole where its other half once was.

* UnholyMatrimony: When it was Umum'Abum, and what it tries to achieve by melding with ghosts.

* EldritchAbomination: The true identity of the Famine-Bringer, according to the ''Night Horrors: Wolfsbane'' sourcebook? An idigiam. Mussughana, the Ravenous Swarm. A creature that is very much alive, well and haunting the World of Darkness today.

* MakesMeWannaShout: The "Doomcry" aspect of Halaku mimics the effect of the Word of Quiet gift,

* TheSmartGuy

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: If you ask him, humanity is the primary cause of most spiritual pollution and imbalance in the world. [[VillainHasAPoint While he's right about many conceptual-spirits not existing if it weren't for humans and probably shouldn't]], [[[UnreliableExpositor keep in mind he thinks]] [[TheSocialDarwinist compassion is a sign of spiritual weakness]].

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[[folder: The Hosts]]

The broken, twisted descendants of malevolent Pangaeans (flesh-bound, primal spirits). that Father Wolf fought but couldn't completely destroy during the days of Pangaea. The Hosts take various twisted spirit-beast forms, devouring their own kind to grow into stronger forms, which ultimately merge with humans to achieve a mightier state. Each Host is driven by its own drive, based on its original spiritual ancestor.

* BodyHorror: Hosts that reach the power to join and become hybrids are ''always'' hideously warped, twisted creatures.
* CannibalismSuperpower: To get stronger, a Host needs to physically devour other "Shards" of the same Host class, as this is the only way to evolve and mutate into the higher forms.
* DemonicPossession: Once strong enough, any Host can take over a human body. Unlike most spirits, even those merely Ridden by a Host end up dead, as Hosts kill their human victims and then puppeteer the corpse to interact with the world around them.
* MonstrousCannibalism: The secondary goal of all Hosts is generally devouring other Hosts of the same class in order to increase their strength.
* TheWormThatWalks: As a defense mechanism, when any single Host is physically beaten, it reverts to a massive swarm of deformed and distorted "base creatures" (spiders for Azlu, rats for Beshilu, locusts for Srizaku, etc) that then attempts to flee in all direction. ''One'' of these contains the essence of the defeated Host, and unless you manage to luck out and kill that one, or just destroy them all, the Host will survive, take a new host, and pick up where it left off.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Intra-Host cooperation is a fairly rare event, since all Hosts are compelled to devour each other to get stronger. When it happens, usually there's a singular strong and developed Host able to keep them all in line.
** Averted with the Beshilu. Perhaps because they are the weakest of all Hosts, perhaps because of influence from their ratly nature, whatever the reason, they are far more communal than Hosts tend to be and so are usually found in groups.

!!Azlu: The Spider Host
Generally held as the first and oldest of the Hosts in Uratha mythology, the Azlu were once a demonic Pangaean spider named Zur Suhikath, "The Spinner-Hag". Though Pangaea had its place for predators, the Spinner-Hag was TheHedonist, defying the laws of the primal world to greedily pursue a life of sensual indulgence, rampantly conquering, enslaving and devouring all that caught her many eyes. Such an attitude drew the wrath of Father Wolf, especially due to her fondness for consuming werewolves. Breaking off his then-hunt for the Plague King, he pursued the Spinner-Hag relentlessly, destroying every abandoned web-palace and tearing through all of her cunning traps. Realizing she was doomed, the cowardly demon devised a plan; as she fled before the raging wolf-spirit, she laid thousands of tiny eggs, each containing a small shard of her very soul. When she was destroyed and Pangaea was ultimately shattered, these hatched and became the Azlu. Driven by mad urges to strengthen the Gauntlet and cut off the two worlds entirely, and craving the delicious flesh and blood of werewolves, the Azlu creep into the skulls of human victims and devour their brains so they can take control of their bodies.

Appearing in the corebooks of both editions, Azlu were fleshed out in the ''Predators'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* AlternateHistory: An InUniverse example; some versions of the story of the Spinner-Hag claim that the monster managed to bite Father Wolf just once before being destroyed, and that the First-Forsaken slew him in an unjustified assault, mistaking the curse-laced poison for true weakness. Only the Pure and some Bale Hounds tell this version of the story, which the Forsaken fiercely reject.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Justified in the ''Predators'' 1e sourcebook; the insane daughters of an even crazier spirit, Azlu ''know'' that sealing off the two worlds will almost assuredly kill or render insane millions of flesh-side beings and may potentially destroy both worlds. ''And they don't '''care''' in the slightest''. The Azlu weave and kill because they must, they can, and they ''want to''. There is no question that they will "defect" from their way of life, any more than a human can "defect" from eating and breathing; their spirit-driven intelligences simply cannot comprehend or encompass a reason to cease their lives and duties.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Of the GiantSpider variety.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: The mightiest of the Azarath can develop a special mutation; the Egg Sac. These "Azlu Crones", as they are known, are the only Azlu capable of reproducing, laying dozens of eggs in a sitting that all hatch into new Azlu. Fortunately, it's an extremely rare mutation and very difficult for an Azlu to fuel, which means Azlu guard their "Crones" with their lives.
* SpiderPeople: When an Azlu gains enough power by consuming its weaker siblings it can meld with a human victim's body to become an evolved creature called an Azarath. These monsters craft forms that are a hideous mixture of human and spider traits.

!!Beshilu: The Rat Host
The second of the Hosts known to be born, and the most common next to the Azlu, the Beshilu are the soul-fragmented spawn of a titanic disease-spirit, a Pangaean demon known as the Plague King. This demon earned Father Wolf's wrath for its delight in slaughtering mortals and spirits alike, visiting plague and ruin upon all things for the sheer joy of watching their suffering. Though distracted for a short time by the Spinner-Hag, Father Wolf could not be stopped and ultimately slew the Plague-King. As he lay dying, the Plague-King summoned swarms of rats which devoured his tainted flesh with unnatural speed, and from these creatures eventually were born the Beshilu. Terrified of werewolves, the Beshilu seek to gnaw down the Gauntlet and force the worlds of flesh and spirit to reunite, eating the hearts of living humans so that they can use their bodies to their advantage.

Appearing in the corebooks of both editions, Beshilu were fleshed out in the ''Predators'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* EnemyMine: Averted. You'd think that with their goal of tearing down the Gauntlet, they'd be natural allies for the Pure, and that even their affinity for disease would be okay with the Fire-Touched, who tend to worship disease. But Beshilu have an insanely strong phobia of werewolves, too strong to even consider the idea as opposed to ripping the Pure apart.
* TheFundamentalist: When Beshilu get religious, they are invariably fanatically devout to their twisted doctrines.
* PlagueMaster: They have a natural affinity for disease-spirits, so where Beshilu gather, plagues swiftly follow. Rokhans, the most powerful of evolved Beshilu, even have powers specifically relating to inflicting disease, such as infected claws or hideous skin-tumors that weep disease-laden pus.
* RatMan: Their evolved forms after taking possession of a human body are always some hideous melding of human and rodent features.
* ReligiousBruiser: Beshilu often form mad cults and twisted religions about their works, particularly those in the United Kingdom.
* YouDirtyRat: They're literally embodiments of the rat in its symbolism as an agent of disease and foulness.
* ZergRush: As Beshilu are more communal than usual for Hosts, their primary tactic is to swarm foes in a wave of possessed bodies and grotesque hybrids.

!!Srizaku: The Locust Host
The most common and well-known of the "lesser Hosts" (which still isn't saying much), the Srizaku are the Shartha most likely to be known as the Third Host. They were once locusts, before they were infected by the soul of the Famine-Bringer, a monstrous Pangaean whose dominion was over insects and hunger, taking the form of an immense locust. Indeed, it is sometimes said that the Srizaku were truly the first hosts, for Famine-Bringer was brought down in Father Wolf's prime, before his final battles with the Spinner-Hag and Plague King. Taking the forms of swarms of omnivorous locusts, they devour the innards of human beings and take control of their bodies for a single, simple purpose. To feed.

Srizaku are detailed in the ''Predators'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: Locusts, with the most powerful hybrids being humanoid locusts.
* BigEater: Their hunger is literally insatiable
* EldritchAbomination: The true identity of the Famine-Bringer, according to the ''Night Horrors: Wolfsbane'' sourcebook? An idigiam. Mussughana, the Ravenous Swarm. A creature that is very much alive, well and haunting the World of Darkness today.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Being incarnations of demonic hunger, Srizaku will devour anything so long as it's organic.

!!Halaku: The Crow Host
Eerie, ominous figures, little is known about the Halaku. Their obsession seems to be watching, claiming human proxies to further their web of information-gathering. Patient, cautious and careful, Halaku simply watch, and wait. Whenever a Halaku does have a goal, it seems to always be an individual thing, rather than the all-consuming drive of other Hosts. They are believed to be the spawn of a Pangaean known various as "The Corpse-Eater" and "The Carrion Prince".

Halaku are detailed in the ''Predators'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* CreepyCrows: They're crow-spirits that can assume grotesquely half-human forms, with no apparent purpose save to lurk around spying on people (or at least werewolves) and looking ominous.
* EyeScream: Halaku possess humans by gouging out and swallowing their eyeballs whilst they're still alive.
* LuckManipulationMechanic: Their Fickle Fate aspect allows Halaku to inflict bad luck on people who displease them.
* MakesMeWannaShout: The "Doomcry" aspect of Halaku mimics the effect of the Word of Quiet gift,
* TheNecromancer: To a very, very limited degree; all Halaku have the inherent ability to speak with the dead.
* WingedHumanoid: In hybrid form, Halaku always combine a generally humanoid body frame with flight-capable wings.

!!Razilu: The Snake Host
Rarest and most mysterious of all the Hosts, virtually nothing is known about them beyond that they exist, and they are driven to hide themselves, reacting violently when their presence is discovered.

Razilu are detailed in the ''Predators'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* CharmPerson: They have a hypnotic gaze as one of their inherent powers.
* CuriousAsAMonkey: If the option that their "purpose" is to sleep is chosen, Razilu are best defined by their insatiable curiosity when they are awake and about. Of course, since these Razilu spend 99 years out of every 100 in the deepest slumber imaginable, it's rather justified they want to cram as much learning and discovery into their one year awake as they can.
* FoodChainOfEvil: One of the options presented for Razilu is that their "purpose" is to hunt other Hosts, making them predators of Azlu, Beshilu and the others.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: The "serpentine grace" of their host-bodies is described as looking threatening, rather than [[SnakesAreSexy sensual]].
* SuperStrength: Razilu can double their Strength for a single turn by spending a point of Essence.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: If their purpose is "healing", then they will probably fall under this; Razilu "healers" are not entirely concurrent with human concepts of compassion and mercy.

!!Adarusharu: The Wolf Host
Twisted lupine spirits commonly assumed to be "just" spirits of fear-of-wolves, the Adarusharu are an enigmatic lupine Host that possesses packs of wolves, dogs and coyotes, turning them into Gauntlet-hopping gestalt entities that exist to haunt mortals, growing ever-stronger as they feed on the fear their hunting generates.

Adarusharu are detailed in the ''Night Horrors: Wolfsbane'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* CanisMajor: Their "war form" is at least the size of a large horse.
* HellHound: Spirit-possessed canines that literally feed on fear.
* HiveMind: All of the canines possessed by an Adarusharu are a singular organism, on a mental/spiritual level.
* MultipleHeadCase: When an Adarusharu colaesces into its war form, it becomes a many-headed abomination.

!!Usudwirku: The Fungus Host
One of the least understood of all Hosts, most werewolves don't actually realize these creatures are Hosts at all. Instead, they believe them to be two separate phenomena; the Usudwirku (mushrooms) proper, a species of spiritually aware fungus that has a tendency to colonize loci on both sides and would ignored were it not for its lethally toxic spores, and the Namusiden ("The Marching Dead"), mysteriously revived corpses of people killed by werewolves who somehow keep returning, each time nothing but a hollow skin filled by slimy, gloppy fungal matter. In fact, the Usudwirku are driven by a mad purpose to colonize loci, as part of a long-term to break down the Gauntlet by bridging the two worlds. The Namusiden are created as propagators and guardians; the fungus-filled corpses spread spores to new loci, and distract werewolves from destroying the new fungal colonies by playing headgames.

Usudwirku are detailed in the ''Night Horrors: Wolfsbane'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* FromASingleCell: The Namusiden are the unliving breeding spores of the Usudwirku form-and so long as they have the embryonic spore in them, all they need is a thimbleful of their original bodies and decaying organic matter to reconstruct themselves.
* FungusHumungous: Downplayed. The mushrooms above the ground are generally no bigger than ordinary mushrooms. The primary body below the soil, however, can easily spread for miles, if given long enough to grow.
* ManipulativeBastard: The Namusiden are not at all fighters by nature, but what they do have is an extremely cunning mind, memories from their bodies, and the willingness to use the guilt of werewolves against them while scheming to force them out of loci.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Theoretically, they could potentially recreate Pangaea. But, like all spirits, their mindlessly amoral pursuit of this goal overrides any good that may come of their actions, especially since they are lethally poisonous to werewolves and humans alike.

!!Uglathlu: The Worm Host
An extremely rare strain of Host, the Uglathlu are spirits of physical and spiritual decay, existing only to induce dissolution wherever they go, making them the most potent sources for Wounds in the world. Only capable of propagating by possessing the body of an extremely morally bankrupt individual (Morality 2 or less) as they die and then using the body to create a large Wound, their spiritual impact more than outweighs their limited numbers, as mortals descend into insane evil and spirits are driven away or defiled.

Uglathlu are detailed in the ''Night Horrors: Wolfsbane'' sourcebook for 1st edition.

* MoralEventHorizon: In a sense. Uglathlu don't cross it, technically -- they're embodiments of the point ''beyond'' it. Their presence literally drives people into evil, opening up Wounds if they stay in one place too long.
* WalkingWasteland: If an Uglathlu stays in a given spot too long, they'll cause it to develop into a Wound, a {{hell}}ish spiritual void where only the most evil and twisted of spirits flock. Indeed, just being ''near'' one for too long causes a person's KarmaMeter to drop as the Worm Host subtly devours their spirit.
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[[folder: Other Shifters]]
The Uratha are not the only beings to wander the World of Darkness in more forms than one. Other strange lineages of half-man, half-beast also prowl the darkness, alongside mad mystics, cursed souls, mortals ridden by beast-spirits, and other, even stranger things. The majority of focus to non-werewolf shifters is the focus of the 1e sourcebooks "Skinchangers" and "War Against the Pure", with the latter focusing on "true" shifters, although the Balam-Colop appeared in the "Blasphemies" sourcebook.

There are also the Fera of "Changing Breeds", but ''nobody'' likes to talk about "Changing Breeds".

* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Are they ever! Just take a look a this list of creepy creatures and know that storytellers are actively encouraged to come up with their own unique forms of werebeast.

!!True Shifters
True Shifters are shapechanging races in their own right. They may begin life as men and become beasts, or they may be born as beasts and become men, or they may know what they are from birth. They may propagate through selective breeding, sorcery, or some strange combination of the two, but whatever induces the change, they are shifters thenceforth, and this trait can never be removed.

!!!Balam-Colop
Descendants of a cursed line of jaguars once used by the ancient Mesoamericans to conduct human sacrifices, Balam-Colop are born whenever a pregnant jaguar of such lineage kills a human, cursing her young to existence as half-man, half-beast monsters. Balam-Colop are massive and powerful jaguars with near-human intelligence and the ability to assume a beast-man form. Though they lack higher culture of their own, embracing the feral life of their jaguar ancestors, Balam-Colop have a taste for human flesh and must feed on human hearts to power their regenerative abilities. In their hybrid form, Balam-Colop have eerily child-like proportions, with overly large heads and eyes and amply fleshed frames that conceal powerful muscle. In contrast, their jaguar forms are true paragons of their species, large, strong and vital specimens that have their pick of mates, ensuring their tainted bloodline spreads far and wide.

* BreathWeapon: Balam-Colop can exhale dense clouds of mist, which they use to cover their retreats or enhance their ability to strike from surprise.
* HealingFactor: Weaker than that of a werewolf's, and it only functions if a Balam-Colop has eaten at least one human heart within the last 24 hours, but it does allow them to recover from non-mortal wounds with preternatural swiftness.
* PickyPeopleEater: Zigzagged. Balam-Colop ''need'' to eat human hearts to fuel their powers of regeneration. But they can and will eat the rest of a person, too, as they enjoy the taste of human flesh in general.
* SpiderSense: Balam-Colop have a limited form of inherent prophetic talent, enabling them to sense danger before it arrives. This makes them almost impossible to ambush, makes their attacks far more accurate, and means that opponents don't gain any benefits from trying to fight them in a group.
* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Balam-Colop revert to jaguar form upon death.

!!!Suthanu-Sua: The Colony
Cursed and insane werecats driven by mystical compulsions to judge and punish humanity, the Colony seeks out human sinners and destroys them, or is driven insane by the unsated urge to do so.

* CatFolk: Played for horror. Suthanu-Sua in their hybrid form resemble grotesquely emaciated and long-limbed humans with clawed digits, a thin coating of cat-like fur, and a rather oversized for its body vaguely anthropomorphic cat's head. The end result is quite hideous.
* CommonEyeColors: Suthanu-Sua are divided into three auspice-equivalents based on the color of their eyes in hybrid and cat form.
** GreenEyes: Suthanu-Sua with green eyes, commonly named "Leafeyes", are the most adept at interacting with people. They tend to be the seducers and the target-trackers as a result.
** RedEyesTakeWarning: The "warrior caste" of the Colony are the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodeyes]], marked by their gore-red eyes.
** SupernaturalGoldEyes: The Goldeyes are the scholars and intellectuals of the Colony, favoring topics like academics, investigation and the occult.
* DetectEvil: Averted. Despite being compelled to find and slay evil, the Suthanu-Sua have no special ability to sense people who ''are'' evil. They have to rely on mundane methods of tracking criminals down... and spirits preserve them if they're wrong.
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Suthanu-Sua are mentally ''compelled'' to kill sinners and evil doers, with the frequency set by how powerful they are; the most powerful Suthanu-Sua have to be committing a murder ''a week''. Failure to kill drives them insane, with insanity deepening if they still refuse to obey, and can only be cured by finally giving in and committing murder. However, [[MortonsFolk killing people forces a Harmony check]] if the Suthanu-Sua is at all a decent sort of person (6 for innocents, 7 for sinners), so they'll probably end up going permanently crazy anyway.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Killing someone that they consider innocent is a huge mental blow to the members of the Colony, forcing a roll on the KarmaMeter.
* ThatsUsingYourTeeth: Suthanu-Sua with the Spinebite aspect have the ability to deliver an exceptionally lethal bite, allowing them to rip out peoples' throats for immense damage.
* TheVirus: Almost literally. Suthanu-Sua enter a quasi-biological mystic condition on every 10th birthday, in which they are compelled to add a new werecat to the Colony. By an act of will, they can secrete a virulent spiritual toxin (which werecats refer to as [[BlackComedy "Cat Scratch Fever"]]) and deliver it via their claws. If the Suthanu-Sua can stay within the victim's presence for the next 24 hours, the victim will become a new werecat. Otherwise, the victim dies.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Originally humans, they have the ability to assume the forms of large, feral-looking housecats capable of speech, or eerily mute and alien humanoid cats.

!!!Surthu Athilal: The Distant Ones
Arrogant and vain, the Surthu Athilal are a race of werefalcons who claim the skies as their sovereign territory, jealously defending their chosen aeries from groundling interference almost as zealously as they bicker and war with each other over the pettiest of difficulties.

* AGodAmI: A sign of how arrogant they are; the Distant Ones are all convinced that they are royalty, born with the strains of godhood running in their bloodlines. It's so ubiquitous that renaming themselves after various deities related to the skies is standard practice in their aeries.
* BizarreAlienReproduction: Every so often, when a person tries to obsessively climb to a certain height, the Surthu Athilal will recognize that human as one of them in potentia. After abducting the candidate, they perform what they call the Soaring Uplift; a ritual in which at least three of the avian therianthropes pluck their feathers and draw spiraling sigils on the subject's body with a cocktail of egg yolk and blood taken from ordinary birds, shrieking and screeching as they do so. Then, when they have completely covered the subject, they throw him or her from the highest point in their aerie. If the ritual takes, the human is irreversibly transformed into a new Surthu Athilal. If not, they go splat.
* GiantFlyer: Downplayed. In their beast form, Surthu Athilal have a wingspan of six to seven feet and when sitting are easily half that height -- which is ''massive'' for a falcon.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Surthu Athilal can assume the form of both abnormally large raptors and humanoid eagles in addition to their original human form.
* WeAREStrugglingTogether: Surthu Athilal are driven almost obsessively by the pursuit of Glory, and thusly their interactions with one another are almost operatic performances of oneupsmanship, rivalry, competition and other petty disputes. Only the intervention of a hostile outside force makes them pull together.
* WingedHumanoid: Only if patagia count. Surthu Athilal can fly in hybrid form, but they don't have distinct, seperate wings on their humanoid form.

!!!Bith Balag: The Brineborn
[[JustSoStory This is the story that the Bith Balag tell.]] In the beginning, Mother Ocean looked upon the land and saw that man was but an animal, knowing nothing beyond the hypnotic dance of the campfire and the sweet taste of bloody brains oozing from a rock-smashed skull. But she also saw that they had potential. So she gave life to a child of herself, a creature she named Oe, that melded human forms with piscine elements, and sent him to the land to educate man. From Oe's careful tutelage, man learned the rudiments of math, writing, music; everything that would ultimately give them culture and wisdom came from Mother Ocean's generosity. But no matter Oe's gifts, man was still no more than a savage, and proved that by turning on their benefactor without warning or cause. Terrified and bleeding from wounds made by stone axes, Oe fled his assailants by diving into the waters of the sea, only for Mother Ocean to turn on him in a fickle rage. Exiling him, he was trapped on the shoreline forever more, caught between the worlds of man and ocean, as his children have been ever since.

* BlessedWithSuck: For all their powers and shapeshifting abilities, it gives them little benefit. Brineborn can't live too far from sources of water; at 50 miles or more away, it's almost impossible for them to think about ''anything'' other than the burning need to get closer to water. However, they can't survive in water, either; the ability to breathe water isn't universal amongst them, and even if they can breathe water, they can only do so for so long. Secondly, spending too long in the water gives them horrific panic attacks as they become seized by an unshakeable conviction that some horrific SeaMonster is going to [[SwallowedWhole gulp them down from beneath]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: They look like [[Creator/HPLovecraft Deep Ones]] straight out of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos... but they're actually a shy, retiring and decent people, who are laboring under an extremely nasty species-wide curse. There are some bad eggs, but for the most part they want to leave alone and be left alone.
* InterspeciesRomance: They have to engage in this in order to reproduce; Brineborn mate with humans to produce more of their own kind, guaranteeing the birth of new Brineborn, but if they mate with each other, the result is a violently insane monster trapped in hybrid form and constantly in the throes of Death Rage.
* MythologyGag: The results of Brineborn breeding together is very similar to the Metis of ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse''.
* OurMerfolkAreDifferent: They're shapeshifting, cursed fish-men, who don't even have the ability to breathe underwater as standard.
* ReligiousBruiser: Whether they worship Mother Ocean, Christianity, Buddhism or some other faith, the Brineborn tend to be strongly religious.
* StockholmSyndrome: Implicit in their attitude towards Mother Ocean. She torments them mercilessly, refusing to let them get too close to her or to get away from her, but the Brineborn love her and worship her.
* TragicMonster: Everything about the Brineborn seems to be the result of someone looking at a Deep One and thinking "how can we make these guys pitiful and sympathetic?"
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Their true form is arguably their hybrid form, which varies a lot, but always looks like a strange melding of human and fish. However, they can also assume human form, or the form of massive fish, such as [[TheCatfish giant catfish]], gars, sturgeons, or, in rarer cases, more predatory horrors like sharks, giant eels and swordfish.

!!!Nidmuzug: The Unclean
Cursed wereroaches who spread a spiritual contamination wherever they go, the Unclean huddle in the dark places of the world, seeking only to be left alone by a world that hates and reviles them.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: They're were-''cockroaches''. It comes with the territory.
* BlessedWithSuck: They gain VoluntaryShapeshifting and significant durability... at the cost of being weakened by the light and, of course, turning into hideous roach-men.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Yes, they are hideous, repulsive and terrifying. But most Nidmuzug are actually fairly nice guys... at least, until age and bitterness turns them hostile to a world that rejects them for being what they are, anyway.
* PoisonousPerson: Nidmuzug have the Venomous aspect as a freebie, imbuing them with lethally poisonous natural weapons.
* TragicMonster: No Nidmuzug ''asked'' to be turned into a hideous, garbage-eating wereroach. But once they changed, they can't change back. And they can't even have children any other way than by this "adoptive" method; wereroach/wereroach breeding always miscarries, and wereroach/human pregnancies are three times as likely to miscarry as normal ones.
* TheVirus: A disturbingly literal example. Nidmuzug broadcast a spiritual contamination whenever they increase in Primal Urge, contaminating exposed water sources and raw foodstuffs in a radius of potentially hundreds of feet. Those who eat such food risk becoming sick with a disease that will, if they succumb, turn them into new Nidmuzug.
* TheWormThatWalks: Their "beast form" is a mass of 500 or more six-inch-long cockroaches that moves with a singular mind and will.

!!!Gudthabak
Referring to themselves as the Baal-Hadad, these sun-worshiping werebulls stake out territories in the backroads and desolate regions, forcing humans into worshiping them.

* AGodAmI: The natural instinct of the Baal-Hadad is to claim dominance over humans, seeing themselves as intermediaries between Helios, the Incarnae of the Sun, and humans, and thusly as being demigods.
* ALoadOfBull: They're taurine shapeshifters. Naturally, their hybrid form is a minotaur-like humanoid bull, and their beast form is a particularly large and savage bull.
* AnimalGenderBender: Female Baal-Hadad sport horns as impressive as those of the males in animal and hybrid forms, though otherwise they remain visibly female.
* BreedingCult: Their primary reason for clashing with the Uratha; Baal-Hadad can only propagate their numbers by mystically transforming wolfbloods into new werebulls. As these same individuals are the primary source of new generations of werewolves, violence swiftly ensues.
* KnightTemplar: They regard themselves as arbiters of morality in their territories, and they are ''extremely'' vicious about punishing transgressors.


!!Skinthieves
The most common form of once-men shapeshifters, skinthieves are mortals who have learned magical rituals that enable them to craft talismans that let them assume the forms of animals. Most usually, this involves killing an animal and wearing its hide to trigger the transformation, hence the common moniker, but there are variants upon the theme.

!!!Black-Eyed Toads
A secretive lineage of minor mystics who have learned a secret rite from the spirit Softly-Croaking Toad. After first treating their eyes with drops of a compound of castor oil and tannins, dying their eyeballs a deep, near-black hue, these mystics are able to remove their eyes and then implant them in the body of a toad. They can then possess this toad's body, allowing them to direct it as they see fit, seeing and hearing anything. Though they still possess the power of speech and reason, they are otherwise normal toads.

* BlackEyesOfCrazy[=/=]BlackEyesOfEvil: It's hard to say which more accurately describes someone willing to yank out their eyes so they can spy on people in the guise of a toad.
* EyeScream: The ritual to take control of a toad's body involves first cutting out the living toad's eyes, and then gouging out your own eyes and sticking them in the toad's eye sockets. Then, to reclaim your eyes, you have to pluck them from the toad's eye sockets again and stick them back in. Then you eat the toad.
** Weirdly averted; if a toad is killed whilst being possessed, the eyes will usually survive completely unharmed. There's also a secondary ritual where, if the mystic's eyes are destroyed, they can grow new ones over a base of rock crystal.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Not a lot of people would consider "pluck out your eyes to take control of a toad's body" to be much of a valuable power.
** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The reason there are still black-eyed toads around; being a toad is an excellent way to go unnoticed, and learn all kinds of valuable secrets.

!!!The Coalblacks
The Coalblacks of Cincinnati, Ohio, had made a fortune in the coal industry, but when the grand switchover from coal to petroleum occurred in the 1970s, Emil Coalblack, grandson of the man who had founded the Coalblack dynasty, found his family one of the first to lose grasp on both the business and its fortune. When the legal and financial dust settled, they retained ownership of their mansion and estate some 20 miles from the city along the I-74, and enough money in stocks to subsist on, so long as they gave up their formerly extravagant lifestyle. Emil refused to accept this, and turned to the occult. The Coalblack Mansion became known as the Crow House, as the increasingly gloomy estate became infested with crows over a period of a few short years. However, Emil's experiments bore fruit; he created an elixir that would allow him to assume the form of a crow. Sharing this secret with his children, the Coalblacks have since secretly prospered, using their alternate forms to steal, spy and blackmail.

* DarkSecret: Not just the whole "family who use occult rituals of VoluntaryShapeshifting" thing, but they actually gather all kinds of secrets in their flights.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: The younger Coalblacks have become more crow than human, and so display an increased tendency to act like crows even in their own bodies.
* MundaneUtility: Turning into RavensAndCrows works great as a way to steal valuable trinkets to rebuild your crumbling family fortune. Not to mention ferreting out all sorts of secrets that can work for blackmail.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The Coalblack formula involves mixing together a cocktail of coal dust, crow's eggs and the skinthief's own blood. The skinthief then feeds a mixture of this compound and seed to a crow, before eating it alive. After which, they turn into a crow and can stay like that for as long as they wish, though once they've changed back, they need to feed and eat another crow to become crows again.


!!!Tusk-Runners
Throughout Africa and Asia, certain isolated clans and tribes have learned a ritual where they can open up an elephant's stomach and climb inside, proceeding to assume control over the elephant's body. By bathing in a cocktail of elephant's milk and certain special plant oils, the Tusk-Runner can then approach a sleeping elephant without fear, slicing them open and melding with them, and then leaving, with nothing but a tiny and harmless scar left in their wake. Though mostly restricted to the lands of their birth, a few have chosen to immigrate elsewhere in the world.

* DemonicPossession: Inverted, in that it's a human possessing a beast through magic.
* TheSymbiote: The process does not actually kill or even hurt the elephant all that much.


!!!Horned Hunters
Sometimes, hunters who seek out deer and elk become obsessed with hunting, coming to lose themselves in the cycle of predator and prey. When these souls manage to slay the biggest and most fearsome bucks in the forest, the so-called "king stags", they are seized by an urge to carefully harvest the skin and antlers. By dressing in the buck's skin and thrusting the sharp roots of the antlers into their own scalps, the Horned Hunters transform into ferocious and highly territorial humanoid stags. Some Uratha lore-seekers believe that the arts may have originated in some sect in Eastern Europe, but it has clearly crossed well beyond its ancestral borders.

* AnimalGenderBender: Women can become Horned Hunters too, and presumably they look about as female as female Gauru-form werewolves do. But, since the power is concentrated in the antlers of the stags, a female Horned Hunter still sports an impressive set of antlers.
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Horned Hunters look like particularly vicious and warlike humanoid stags in their hybrid form.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The transformation into a Horned Hunter can be quite addictive. Those who succumb to this addiction and try to force themselves to remain in hybrid form longer than they should often end up getting what they want at the cost of going completely stark raving mad.


!!!Spirit-Skinners
Rarest and most disparate of all the skinthieves, Spirit-Skinners are occultists and lunatics who have managed an almost impossible feat; flaying a spirit and using the preserved hide to assume its form, or otherwise imprisoning and compelling a spirit to let the skinthief wear its body.

* DemonicPossession: Inverted, they're ''humans'' who possess ''spirits''.


!!!The Stray
Alan Donning is one of the many sad and pitifully strange beings who roam the city streets of the World of Darkness. An unexceptional man, he loved two things with all his heart; his wife, and his faithful dog. When he returned early from work, only to find his wife having sex with another man, the heartbroken Donning turned and left, becoming a vagrant with his only true and loyal friend. One cold winter night, the homeless vagrant was on the verge of death, when his dog made a HeroicSacrifice and tore itself open with its weathered teeth. Blinded by grief, Alan crawled inside his only friend's body for warmth, only to waken and find himself wearing the guise of large dog. Ever since then, whenever his borrowed hide decays, another stray sacrifices itself, and unwilling to let it die in vain, Alan takes a new body.

* DeathSeeker: Alan ''wants'' to die, unable to tolerate living in this cruel world, but he can't bring himself to just let it end, not when the dogs keep sacrificing themselves to preserve his life.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Alan is more of a dog than a man now, after spending so long in canine form.
* PetTheDog: IncrediblyLamePun aside, the Forsaken have a great deal of pity for Alan Donning, and consider him a distant relative by adoption. The packs politely ignore him and even give him what comfort they can, when they can spare it.


!!!Doctor Ape
Modern African legends tell the story of an American doctor who came to the continent as part of a relief program in the late 50s. Though they say only good things about his intentions and efforts, all stories ultimately focus on how, after an attack by an angry chimpanzee, he ultimately went mad and left. What none know is the truth; the attack, although it did little damage to his body, ''did'' injure his mind. He became obsessed with chimpanzees, and ultimately began performing experiments in human skin grafts, leading to his discovery of a way to take the hide of a chimpanzee and walk amongst them. To this day, certain villages in Africa near the heavy jungle regions will sometimes notice a chimpanzee who seems strangely interested in the doings of people. Rumors whisper that, should this chimpanzee see an important injury or a sickness, a strange white doctor with unusually lump skin and recently-sewn wounds behind his ears will soon after emerge from the jungle. He will help the hurt and cure the ill, and then vanish into the jungle once again. Doctor Ape has not abandoned his urge to heal the sick even as he has forsaken the human life for that of the chimpanzee.

* PowerBornOfMadness: It was his insane obsession with chimpanzees that ultimately allowed him to discover his strange, science-based form of skintheft.


!!!Barsarks
Believed to hail from Eastern Europe, Barsarks are enigmatic loners who ritually stalk and kill the biggest, fiercest bears in the wilderness. By defeating such a monster and eating its heart, the Barsark can then cure its hide to create a cloak that enables them to become a bear or a bear-man. This cloak does not last forever, and the Barsark must continually recharge its power by slaying more bears, if lesser than its "totemic kill", and stitching them into the cloak to imbue it with fresh magic.

* BearsAreBadNews: Most Barsarks seek only to be left alone in the wilderness, but like the bears they resemble, they are deadly when roused to anger.


!!!The Invisible Man
A Nicaraguan man who learned a mad ritual that enables him to possess a swarm of fire ants by laying down in their nest and letting them swarm all over his body. Though the ceaseless biting is painful even as his mind rides the swarm, such is his obsession with the power he feels it gives him and his growing self-loathing that he cannot resist the urge to perform the ritual again and again.

* TheWormThatWalks: His "shapeshifting" is a kind of inverted DemonicPossession that lets his human mind inhabit an entire colony of fire ants.


!!Spirit-Claimed
Many spirits of beasts are capable of claiming human hosts and twisting their bodies into more comfortable guises. When such a being is capable of freely reverting between forms, usually establishing a bond with its host beyond that normal of a spirit, then a true shapeshifter is born.

* DemonicPossession: What they all technically fall under.

!!!Thar Akuru: The Black Flock

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!!!Kitsune

* {{Kitsune}}


!!!The Kanaima, aka Umamu Suhi, the Beasts of Vengeance

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!!!Nemu Sakar: Leopard Men

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!!!Im Iri: The Bouda

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!!!Afhal Usum: The Serpent Sages, and Hal Usum: The Serpent Guardians

!!Other Strangeness
Some shapeshifters do not fit so neatly into the categories above, but are clearly still part of the general category.

!!!Scavenger Wolf
A disgraced and disreputable member of the Firstborn, the spirit called Scavenger Wolf became obsessed with humanity during the days of Pangaea, and especially with the ability of his lesser kindred, the Uratha, to take human form and walk amongst them. After a hundred failures, he finally tried something new, something inspired by the human practice of wearing clothes. He killed a slender human youth, tearing off his skin and carefully wriggling inside. To his delight, it worked, especially once he slew a wolf and used its hide to cover the wounds in his stolen skin, and he spent much time walking amongst humans. Overjoyed with his cleverness, he gathered the early Uratha and revealed himself to them. Outraged, they denounced him as a manslayer, a wolfslayer, and a betrayer of their common progenitor, before cursing him and stripping him of his status amongst the Firstborn. Scavenger Wolf fled into what is now the Hisil, and ever since then has bedeviled and plagued humanity and the Forsaken alike. Never will they kill him, though, because, repulsive as he is, he's still family.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Weirdly inverted; spending so much time in the form of a human has actually left Scavenger Wolf ''thinking'' like a human.
* GlamourFailure: His stolen skins slowly rot away, never lasting more than two or three weeks before they become obvious.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: As mentioned above, Scavenger Wolf is now, mentally, more human than spirit.
* NeverMyFault: His being trapped in a half-flesh state rather than existing in the same ethereal state as other humans. The Forsaken make the understandable conclusion that it's because of his constant stealing of human skins. He refuses to admit this, instead insisting that it's some evil hex inflicted on him by the Forsaken.
* WoundThatNeverHeals: He suffers from the Unhealing flaw; his stolen skins don't regenerate themselves, meaning any wounds inflicted whilst he wears that stolen guise remain with him until he sheds it once and for all.

!!!Patches
A character who serves as an example of the "Artifact" classification of shapeshifters, Patches is a mysterious figure whose powers come from her ever-present greatcoat. Which is made from the stolen and preserved faces of countless victims, human and animal, that she has stitched together.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Patches' shapeshifting powers comes from her coat. Assuming that she actually ''isn't'' the cloak itself disguising itself as a humanoid.
* GenuineHumanHide: Flayed faces, human and animal, are the material Patches uses to create her trademark tattered cloak.
* GlamourFailure: No matter what form she wears, Patches' eyes are always the same color; one brown, the other blue. Additionally, in animal form, her fur, feathers or scales are always mottled, covered in shapeless, multi-colored blotches that roughly correspond to the many faces on her cloak.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Patches can transform into the

!!!The Chimera
A category of shapeshifters based on the scientific or alchemical fusing of animal to human - or human to animal.

* BeastMan: THe Humera, being humans who have been forced into a more bestial form, fall under this.
* UpliftedAnimal: The Animera, who have gained human-like intelligence and prehensile digits as part of their transformation.

!!!The Cursed, aka "Circe's Brood"

* BalefulPolymorph

!!!The Lobison

* {{Curse}}


!!!Lila, the Devil's Daughter

* DeathByChildbirth
* LiteralManeater
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent
* ScaledUp

!!!Graemalkin

* OwlBeDamned

!!!The Devil of Deacon Hill

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!!!The Zoonotics

* {{Yandere}}: He wants ''everything'' that Urfarah had as his role. ''Especially'' his wife. Given how his very existence [[BerserkButton sends nearby Lunes into Death Rage]], it's probably a safe bet that she [[BrainBleach isn't a fan of the idea]]/.

* {{Yandere}}: He wants ''everything'' that Urfarah had as his role. ''Especially'' his wife. Given how his very existence [[BerserkButton sends nearby Lunes into Death Rage]], it's probably a safe bet that she [[BrainBleach isn't a fan of the idea]]/

* YouHaveFailedMe

The broken, twisted descendants of malevolent Pangaeans that Father Wolf fought but couldn't completely destroy during the days of Pangaea. The Hosts take various twisted spirit-beast forms, devouring their own kind to grow into stronger forms, which ultimately merge with humans to achieve a mightier state. Each Host is driven by its own drive, based on its original spiritual ancestor.

One of the least understood of all Hosts, most werewolves don't actually realize these creatures are Hosts at all. Instead, they believe them to be two seperate phenomena; the Usudwirku (mushrooms) proper, a species of spiritually aware fungus that has a tendency to colonize loci on both sides and would ignored were it not for its lethally toxic spores, and the Namusiden ("The Marching Dead"), mysteriously revived corpses of people killed by werewolves who somehow keep returning, each time nothing but a hollow skin filled by slimy, gloppy fungal matter. In fact, the Usudwirku are driven by a mad purpose to colonize loci, as part of a long-term to break down the Gauntlet by bridging the two worlds. The Namusiden are created as propagators and guardians; the fungus-filled corpses spread spores to new loci, and distract werewolves from destroying the new fungal colonies by playing headgames.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeart: Not a lot of people would consider "pluck out your eyes to take control of a toad's body" to be much of a valuable power.

* MundaneUtility: Turning into RavensAndCrows works great as a way to steal valuable trinkets to rebuild your crumbling family fortune

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* BearsAreBadNews

* TheWormThatWalks

* TheWoundThatNeverHeals: He suffers from the Unhealing flaw; his stolen skins don't regenerate themselves, meaning any wounds inflicted whilst he wears that stolen guise remain with him until he sheds it once and for all.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting

* BeastMan
* UpliftedAnimal

Cursed and insane werecats driven by mystical compulsions to judge and punish humanity, the Colony seeks out human sinners and destroys them, or is driven insane by the unsated urge to do so. Originally humans, they have the ability to assume the forms of large, feral-looking housecats capable of speech, or eerily mute and alien humanoid cats.

* AGodAmI

* ReligiousBruiser

* BigCreepyCrawlies

!!!Gudthabak: Baal-Hadad

* ALoadOfBull

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower

* MundaneUtility

* NeverMyFault

'''Tribal Totems'''

!!Soulless Wolf (Viruhk-Ur)

Also known as the "Eyes of the Maeljin", Soulless Wolf purports to be Father Wolf's ninth offspring, and claims to have allied with the Maeljin when he saw the way the wind was blowing. Whether he is telling the truth, and whether he is the totem of the Bale Hounds, or simply acts as a messenger for the Maeljin, is up to the storyteller's discretion.

The idigam have returned, still furious over their humiliation and millenna of imprisonment. So new a threat that the Forsaken have no method for hunting them, so old as to have matched wits with the greatest of hunters and come out ahead, the idigam combine the adaptability of werewolves, the might of spirits, the strangeness of the Hosts, the intellect of humans, and the unpredictability of the Claimed into singular beasts, and due to their skill with [[MadScientist Shaping Essence]], they can command or create all of the above given the time and motive. They still despise Father Wolf, all of them, but he cannot feel their fury, since he is dead.

* AxeCrazy

* AloofBigBrother: To his followers

* SiblingYinYang: With Destroyer Wolf

* SiblingYinYang: With Black Wolf

* WhatTheHellHero: A story in 2nd Edition features a group of corrupt Blood Talons who had taken over a town and had transformed it into a CannibalCult. Destroyer-Wolf found out. That town [[ApocalypseWow no longer exists]], especially not its rulers.

Ancient, alien spirits of concepts which never were, never existed, or never codified, depending on who you ask. Some say they aren't actually spirits, either, though they're certainly close ''enough'' to be called them. {{Mad God}}s to a spirit, the idigam's experiments and hungers posed a grave danger to Pangaea, made as they were with either no care for the order of things or contempt for it, so it naturally fell to Father Wolf to hunt them. Unfortunately, the idigam soon proved more cunning prey; their defining trait is their [[AdaptiveAbility endless evolution]], each form an idigam takes simply being a transitional state to something grander and more terrifying. Any attempt to destroy them was countered, any trap was disarmed, any victory undone. In desperation, he turned to Luna for help, and she took them [[SealedEvilInACan unto her physical self]], leaving only the ones who Father Wolf never saw due to their relative lack of hostility on Earth.

On the moon, the majority of the idigam licked their wounds and sulked. A few learned to call the spirits of stellar phenomenon, a few reflected on how they were finally defeated and [[CharacterDevelopment changed]]. But they could not reach Earth, the gap of space plus Luna's own guarding against space-born threats prevented that.

Ancient, alien spirits of concepts who

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* CanisMajor: The biggest after Father Wolf himself. He resembles one of the Dire Wolves that once stalked the mortal world.

...[[UnreliableNarrator According to the Forsaken, at least]]. According to the Pure, it's mostly accurate, but he isn't actually a coward so much as [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere reluctant to involve himself in confrontation he knows he can't win]], being a peerless {{Seer}}. The Fire-Touched say his various illnesses are simply a spiritual, literal representation of his piousness (faith is similar to a contagion after all), while his madness is a result of being aware of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation every single lie in the world]]. He is the kindest of the Pure tribe totems, and is quite supportive of granting mercy to the Forsaken...[[DarkMessiah if they convert to the Pure]].

* CainAndAbel: Has a longstanding rivalry with Winter Wolf who is everything that Silver Wolf fancies himself to be.

Also known as the "Eyes of the Maeljin", Soulless Wolf purports to be Father Wolf's ninth offspring, and claims to have allied with the Maeljin when he saw the way the wind was blowing. Whether he is telling the truth, and whether he is the totem of the Bale Hounds, or simply acts as a messenger for the Maeljin is up to the storyteller's discretion.

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf

* BigBadassWolf: The biggest and most badass after Father Wolf himself. He resembles one of the Dire Wolves that once stalked the mortal world.

* BigBadassWolf

Tribal totem of the Storm Lords, Winter Wolf is the second of Father Wolf's children and alpha of the Forsaken pact, and led them into the world after the death of Father Wolf and the loss of Pangaea. A remote, disapproving figure, he demands total loyalty and respect from his followers.

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* TheBigGuy

...[[UnreliableNarrator According to the Forsaken, at least]]. According to the Pure, it's mostly accurate, but he isn't actually a coward so much as [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere reluctant to involve himself in confrontation he knows he can't win]], being a peerless {{Seer}}. The Fire-Touched say his various illnesses are simply a spiritual, literal represntation of his piousness (faith is similar to a contagion after all), while his madness is a result of being aware of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation every single lie in the world]]. He is the kindest of the Pure tribe totems, and is quite supportive of granting mercy to the Forsaken...[[DarkMessiah if they convert to the Pure]].

* EvilGenius

Kingly in aspect, Silver Wolf believes he should have been the alpha of the First Pack. He serves as the tribal totem of the Ivory Claws, and his followers often provide the pure with leadership.

Also known as the "Eyes of the Maeljin" Soulless Wolf purports the be Father Wolf's ninth offspring, and claims to have allied with the Maeljin when it saw the way the wind was blowing. Whether he is telling the truth, and whether he is the totem of the Bale Hounds, or simply acts as a messenger for the Maeljin is up to the storyteller's discretion.

* DirtyCoward

* MadOracle: Grants his followers visions.

* {{Plaguebringer}}

!!Winter Wolf

!!Red Wolf

!!Death Wolf

!!Black Wolf

!!Destroyer Wolf

!!Dire Wolf

!!Rabid Wolf

* MadOracle

* WellDoneSonGuy: Was once like this.

!!Silver Wolf

* SmallNameBigEgo: Has a very high opinion of himself.

!!Soulless Wolf

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!!Dire Wolf

Tribal totem of the Predator Kings, Dire Wolf is the oldest and most malicious of Father Wolf's children. He mourns the loss of Pangaea, the predator's paradise, and longs to bring it back.

* BigBadassWolf: The biggest and most badass after Father Wolf himself. He resembles one of the Dire Wolves that once stalked the mortal world.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Dire Wolf and the Predator Kings don't like the Forsaken, but they find the Bale Hounds totally revolting, and will take any chance to kill them and urinate on their corpses.
* MightMakesRight
* SocialDarwinist: Believes that only the strong can survive, and that if you are weak, you deserve to die.
* SuperPersistentPredator
* WorthyOpponent: He and his followers are the most likely to see the Forsaken this way.

!!Rabid Wolf
The youngest and maddest of Father Wolf's children, Rabid Wolf is a slavering coward who serves as the tribal totem of the Fire-Touched. Crazed with fear and paranoia, and stricken with disease, he grants his followers visions in exchange for their services.
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* AxeCrazy

* DirtyCoward
* EvilIsVisceral
* GigglingVillain: Purported to cackle like a hyena after killing his victims.
* MadOracle
* {{Plaguebringer}}
* WellDoneSonGuy: Was once like this.

!!Silver Wolf
Kingly is aspect, Silver Wolf believes he should have been the alpha of the First Pack. He serves as the tribal totem of the Ivory Claws, and his followers often provide the pure with leadership.

* BigBad: To the Pure as a whole, though just barely.
* TheEvilPrince
* TheLeader: Of the Pure. This is largely because Rabid Wolf is mad and Dire Wolf does not care.
* ManipulativeBastard
* SmallNameBigEgo: Has a very high opinion of himself.
* TheStarscream: Tried to seize power from Father Wolf in a coup d'etat and was humiliated in the process.

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[[folder:The Bale Hounds]]

'''Tribal Totems'''

!!Soulless Wolf
Also known as the "Eyes of the Maeljin" Soulless Wolf purports the be Father Wolf's ninth offspring, and claims to have allied with the Maeljin when it saw the way the wind was blowing. Whether he is telling the truth, and whether he is the totem of the Bale Hounds, or simply acts as a messenger for the Maeljin is up to the storyteller's discretion.
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* BadBoss: Bale Hounds who fail him don't last long.

* YouHaveFailedMe